Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
As that ripe summer turned to autumn, the sunlight cooled to a slantwise gleam, bronzing the beach grass and setting the beetle-bung trees afire.
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.
I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.
Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
I think there's something charming about incorporating summer clothes into winter, like pairing a summery skirt with a massive sweater. I'm also really into layering during the winter!
I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'
I married my love in the springtime, / but by summer he’d locked me away. / He’d murdered me dead by the autumn, / and by winter I was naught but decay
Poetry is – raw feelings as sunny summer, fiery turmoil as vibrant autumn, daunting revelation as stormy winter, intrepid hope as blooming spring.
I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a ward clerk handling everything in an intensive care unit.
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.
Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.
This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.
