Det var dagen efter självständighetsdagen den 4 juli och lukten av svavel från fyrverkerierna blandade sig med lukten av salt från havet – det var sommar.

The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing...

The morning heat had already soaked through the walls, rising up from the floor like a ghost of summers past.

I am but a firefly caught in his jar and when he looks at me, I can’t help but glow.

Would I ever find the perfect note to fill the music sheet that I had?

Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts… for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and...

These marvels were great and comfortable ones, but in the old England there was a greater still. The weather behaved itself.In the spring all the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the...

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

Boat.Toby.1pm.Shit!

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.

Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.

There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

A smaller rocket cut across the sky, trailing smoke. It exploded in a red heart.”A!” said the crowd.”Upside down,” said Sean.The heart was, indeed, upside down. It grew and grew, upside down, until it’s lights...

The day was so wonderful that Bonaventure thought it would taste like cherry pie if he took a bite of it.

It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head...

…TV was entertainment of the last resort. There was nothing on during the day in the summer other than game shows and soap operas. Besides, a TV-watching child was considered available for chores: take out...

SUN, MOON, AND STARRY SKYEarly summer evenings, when the first stars come out, the warm glow of sunset still stains the rim of the western sky.Sometimes, the moon is also visible, a pale white slice,...

On Saturday afternoons I used to go for a walk with my mother. From the dusk of the hallway, we stepped at once into the brightness of the day. The passerby, bathed in melting gold,...

I’ve lived to se my longings dieI’ve lived to se my longings die:My dreams and I have grown apart;Now only sorrow haunts my eye,The wages of a bitter heart.Beneath the storms of hostile fate,My flowery...

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn...

Pride must be a summer thing, because it “comes before the fall.

Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.

The summer,’ Randy explained. ‘I’m going to appreciate it. I’m going to walk in the woods noticing everything, and ride my bike on all the roads I never explored. I’m going to fill a pillow...

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of...

He sighed, then said, “So basically, you’re stalking her.””I am NOT stalking her.” I insisted.”That’s where you come in. If I followed her by myself, someone who did not understand the situation and did not...

The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers’ purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.

Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.

The summer in youcalms the winter in me.

The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it..

Make him earn it.

I sat down at the table, took a deep breath, smiled at Detective Masterson, and nodded at Deputy Slalom. It was going to be a great summer. Normal.

It’s December in Florida, and there are still a few leaves clinging on the branches for dear summer.

Love is like a beautiful summer day in the middle of winter. I’ve got shorts on, so it seems like a good time to invade Russia.

Weeping willows remind me of summer. And sadness. I wonder if tissues are made out of their trunks.

Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.

Prove to me that you deserved it.

Eso es algo que tu no logras entender, tu eres un simple chico común que viene de una familia un poco privilegiada, y yo soy Katherine Heddleson, la reina, a mí nadie me utiliza, yo...

Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.

Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

I like you, Tess.

. . .and he has nevergiven up his conviction that if you just try all the doors one of them is bound to be the Door intoSummer. You know, I think he is right.

There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.