Top 25 Quotes About Summer Afternoons: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Summer Afternoons

#1. The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.

George Eliot

#2. He would drift through the house in search of the coolest spot to read through the long summer afternoons that had a touch of eternity to them, altering the arrangement of his limbs as much for comfort as for the fear that his undisturbed shadow would leave a stain on the wall.

Nadeem Aslam

#3. We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons.

Laura Wiess

#4. I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I shall recall the memory of warm, sunny, late summer afternoons like this one, and be comforted greatly.

Peggy Toney Horton

#6. Love's not some amorphous concept created for books and poetry and not attainable. It's real and vital, and it's necessary. Damn it.

Nora Roberts

#7. I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.

Kylie Minogue

#8. If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.

Sean Penn

#9. It is critically important that as we age and our bodies become less flexible our minds become more so.

Steven A. Segal

#10. Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Roger Kahn

#11. Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

Charles Baudelaire

#12. One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

Tamora Pierce

#13. Her favourite summer memories were not of events themselves, of picnics, sea bathing, tennis afternoons and cricket matches, but of watching Hugh and Daniel enjoying them and locking into memory the delight in their faces and their open laughter.

Helen Simonson

#14. How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?

Kim Stanley Robinson

#15. Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#16. It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#17. Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

Christina Baker Kline

#18. How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end.
As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all?

Jonathan Lethem

#19. That no matter what our future held, my first task would always be to kick a hole in the world and make a space for him where he could safely be his eccentric self.

Hope Jahren

#20. I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

Imelda Marcos