Splendid Summer Quotes

#1. It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

John Cheever

#2. I asked myself whether, in bygone days, men had longed for bygone days as I, this summer morning, longed for certain ways of life that man had lost forever.

Alejo Carpentier

#3. The British invasion certainly made a lot of noise in the record industry.

Jeff Barry

#4. Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. She's a few dances short of a full card.

Mary Matthews

#6. Whenever you're down on your luck, and when things aren't going the way you like, remember that you are the author of your own story. You can write it any way you like, with anyone you choose. And it can be a beautiful story or a sad and tragic one. You get to pick.

Sarah Jio

#7. In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.

Tim O'Brien

#8. He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

Philip Neri

#9. It's a great feeling to be wanted, but it's more exciting to be inaccessible.

Shreya Ghoshal

#10. Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.

Donata Joseph

#11. There comes a point where you need to lose your religion in order to restore your relationship.

Jared Brock

#12. Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

Gustav Heinemann

#13. Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God.

Marcus J. Borg

#14. I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm a terrible singer. I'm not about to launch my album!

Georgia May Jagger

#15. God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

Oswald Chambers

#16. The summer night sky over the Hindu Kush, domed by the Milky Way's mage light, was infinitely splendid. Strewn against this craggy luminosity, millions of tiny stars shone, a diamond heist gone awry.

Sherry Thomas

#17. Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.

Aziz Ansari