The First Day Of Summer Quotes

#1. I feel empty and purposeless, like the first day of summer after school ends, but I am free.

Lindsay Smith

#2. His witch had finally arrived. He knew it within his heart and he danced, giddy as a schoolboy on the first day of summer vacation.

Sapphire Phelan

#3. Seven a.m. on the first day of summer vacation was, to her mind, a dangerous time to be awake. Even God had to be sleeping in.

Victoria Kahler

#4. Cruelty is older than the Bible. Savagery beat its chest in the first human summer and has kept beating it every day since. The worst in men is commonplace. The best is a far rarer thing.

Dennis Lehane

#5. During the blue nights you think the end of day will never come. As the blue nights draw to a close (and they will, and they do) you experience an actual chill, an apprehension of illness, at the moment you first notice: the blue light is going, the days are already shortening, the summer is gone.

Joan Didion

#6. When the alarm bell rings, you'd better wake up and realize that the customer expects more from you today than he did the day before. You'd better find ways to be better.

Gary L. Tooker

#7. I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.

Siri Hustvedt

#8. But rarely do you hear a church described, first and foremost, by the character, power, and content of its preaching. This is because few preachers today are true servants of the Word.

Eric J. Alexander

#9. Relief washed over me like that first air-conditioned breeze on a hot summer day.

Rachel Vincent

#10. This I say is the present moment; this is the first day of the summer holidays. This is part of the emerging monster to whom we are attached.

Virginia Woolf

#11. I did it. Who leaves a message like that? Who is so paranoid that they have to be so cryptic? If this wasn't day one of my Summer of Nothing, I might be in a hurry to figure this out. but first: breakfast.

Julie Halpern

#12. I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.

John Stamos

#13. So ... " Her shoulders lifted and dropped. "What? You're going to let that walking cane snuff out the eternally grinning smart-ass that loves inside you?

Candis Terry

#14. What bloody man is that, sir?" I tossed the paper in the grate, though there was no fire on this warm summer day. "Bartholomew, you are quoting from Macbeth, did you know? King Duncan in the first scene, which is ominous. He died rather horribly soon after.

Ashley Gardner

#15. Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

#16. I may some day get a boyfriend and eventually a husband, but you will always be my first loves." -Sheetal, 14, Qatar

Jazmin Williams

#17. Just as there was a day every spring when the women of the town, as though by some secret signal, appeared in their summer dresses before the first heat was felt, there was as well a day when winter showed the knife before the first laceration.

Robert Goolrick

#18. She slid her boot soles onto the surface and nearly laughed at her own absurdity - to be careful not to slip even as she prayed to fall through.

Eowyn Ivey

#19. When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March
after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.

Jodi Picoult

#20. While the Ark Encounter will be able to accommodate 16,000 guests per day, our consultant's research has shown that we could possibly expect more than that during the first few weeks of opening, especially during the summer time frame.

Ken Ham

#21. It is the laugh of a man in the grip of fond recall- the sight of a sunset, the firm feel of a woman's breast through a thin silk shirt (not that Barry has, in Henry's estimation, ever felt such a thing), or the packed warmth of beach sand.

Stephen King

#22. She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.

Kate Morton

#23. Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.
Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art!
Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!

William Shakespeare

#24. My child will bear those scars forever," Tilv said angrily.
"And if he isn't a fool, perhaps your child will learn from them," Neferre returned calmly.

Ash Gray

#25. What was your favorite day of the year? The summer solstice. June twenty-first. The longest day of the year.

Amor Towles

#26. As far back as I can remember, I have worshipped the sun. My skin is fair, but as the years have gone by, it has toughened and darkened. I now turn a rich golden brown every summer, but only after the first day of burning.

Jane Green

#27. It was the first genuinely shining day of summer, a time of year which brought Eleanor always to aching memories of her early childhood, when it seemed to be summer all the time; she could not remember a winter before father's death on a cold wet day.

Shirley Jackson