Summers Quotations

In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.

My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.

Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.

Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the beach, camping with my family a bunch, and traveling as much as we could. My parents wouldn't let me watch too much TV growing up or play video games, or anything like that.

I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.

I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over.

My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the most impersonal sort, is for me a divestment, a striptease, even, so that if I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

We grew up with them. Two summers ago it was like the most wretched thing you could smell on a hot summer's day.

I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.

I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

I feel pretty good about it. I think if I decide to be a part of that team, I think it will be a much better experience than two summers ago.

Fox's comprehensive cricket coverage over the coming summers is a must for all Australian cricket fans.

I don't think it's a 'gimme' that this appointment will move forward quickly, but everything that I know about Larry Summers is good,

He has an affinity for the 'everyman' type of player. He's been here the last two summers working out with summer league players. It's something he has a liking for.

He has an affinity for the 'everyman' type of player, ... He's been here the last two summers working out with summer league players. It's something he has a liking for.

He's a real versatile player. He runs the ball for us some - he's popped some big runs (including a punt return for a touchdown against Summers County) - and gives us a threat that can go down the field and catch the long ball.

When they (Greg Jr. and his brother, Anthony) started basketball, I couldn't see them as much, ... I used to have them for summers and entire Christmas breaks because I never wanted them to think I forgot about them.

I was a handyman in an office building across from Penn Station for two entire summers while I was still in school and the summer after. I had to wear a big, gray jumpsuit kind of thing that had the name of the company in a big patch on my chest, and I was sent to fix things and didn't know what I was doing.

I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home.

Jenny adds key depth and attacking skills to the outside back position. She has made great progress the past few years and gained valuable experience with two summers in the W-League. At the end of the day, she is one of those unheralded players who are very important to helping us win.

Larry Summers is a very capable guy. He's been Rubin's deputy for the last five years or so, and Rubin has been grooming him to take on the responsibilities of being the Treasury secretary.

I remind them of a few games that got away from us and the mistakes we made in those games. I remind them of the three years we worked to get to this point and the sacrifices they made over the summers and everything the team and the community did for us and we don't want to have brain freezes once we get out there. They have never backed down from a challenge since I've been there.

Our pre-World Championship training plan is coming together nicely. We feel excited and fortunate to be able to have the USA Senior National Team conduct its domestic training for the next three summers in Las Vegas. We appreciate the efforts Las Vegas Events and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority have made to make this happen.

Our summers are so precious. Are we really prepared to say that part of this park is now a commercial music venue and off-limits to the nonpaying public?

Our research pointed to rapid global warming and the shifting of climate zones. Our climate models predict warmer and drier summers for Europe, with warmer and wetter winters.

My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

Mary really stepped it up today and pushed the race. All of the girls up front have had incredible summers and I've been impressed with their work ethic.

I think (the summer) has been protracted, but I don't think it's been all that much different from other summers that have had extensive player movement.

My calendar here is full. I have two or three things every day. Softball, swimming, tennis, basketball. I go back to Maine in the summers and the only thing I have on my calendar is a couple of doctor's appointments.

Most of them have developed a Celtic rock stage to get the younger people to come. We're packing the summers with them now,

We played them once before just like we played Independence. We have to be focused because we can't take anything for granted. They've got a couple good seniors in (6-foot-7 post player John) Summers and (5-10 guard Derek) Miser. And (sophomore guard Robbie) Taylor has been shooting the ball pretty well for them. We'll have to be ready.

We have a lot of kids from Florida who want to go to our camp, but their summers are getting cut short.

Thousands of jobs have already gone, and we saw the effects of that a couple of summers ago when the airline found itself short of people at Heathrow.

The experience (will be better this time). Knowing what I got myself into two summers ago, I didn't get a full-fledged explanation of what my role would be. This time I will. That will make the experience much better. I'll be more comfortable with it.

While it's still early to tell, 2005 could very well be the vintage of the decade for Washington state. Mother Nature was definitely on our side this year, delivering one of the warmest summers we've had in recent years, cool and constant fall weather and a frost-free harvest. This allowed the fruit to hang on the vine longer and enhance flavor development.

We see it as a tool to convince people during dry summers that their sprinkling during the daytime hours was not beneficial to them or to the utility. They're wasting their water. They're wasting our water.

This was the working relationship that President Summers had with the Harvard faculty and the Harvard Corporation, the trustees. The advocacy by presidents from other institutions wouldn't really have had an impact on that.

We do receive some financial assistance, but the aspect that makes Golden Apple Scholars so different from other scholarship programs is that we commit our four summers of college to teaching in Chicago and gaining experience.

Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, old books . . . In the summers we would go to North Dakota to visit her, and I would get in that attic and read everything in sight. That's when the passion started. I was maybe eight or nine.

I spent most summers here and my uncle, John Kovach, was a teaching pro at Manor Valley Golf Course (in Export),

I've been here once or twice a week since the end of July. People think we leave school every day at 3 p.m. and have the summers off. It's not like that. It's a lot more work.

The summers are the time when you can get better as an individual. He didn't have that and he had to jump in and try to fit into a team right away without going through some individual things. He didn't even do much of the individual workouts.

Rubin was Mr. Strong Dollar, ... and we have to see where Summers stands. The market wants more of the same, because it's been backing a winner all the way with Rubin.

Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership.

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

As a child he spent all of his summers up there, playing baseball and swimming. He was on the first traveling team started in seventh grade, a football team known as the Bearcats.

The buck has yet to stop at Summers as too many officials have abandoned the former 'one-voice' policy and thrown in their harmful two-cents, ... Summers must assert a 'one-voice' policy to stop the dollar from falling further.

They've already been working together. Summers sits in on the meetings Rubin has with Greenspan much of the time.

There were some summers when every boy in Ayrshire seemed to be playing golf, and my dad taught me. But he was a terrible teacher - of everything. Learning to drive with him almost killed me. He was the world's most impatient man - awful short fuse.

It's the same system that has brought one of the coolest summers in the Northeast in years. It has basically steered anything away.

It's the most important energy project in the history of Long Island because for the first time, Long Island will become part of the national energy grid, and for the first time, we'll be able to import power from the south, where it's a heck of a lot cheaper. It's important for the reliability of the system as well. When this is online two summers from now, it will have a significant impact on our customers' bills.

It's terribly unlucky. One of the best summers and now this.

It looks pretty good. He's getting a good group of guys together that want to win, that want revenge for what happened two summers ago.

It's somewhat ironic in the final weekend of one of the worst summers ever that we have a strong showing. Hopefully, this sets a positive tone heading into the fall and holiday season.

Everyone is looking towards (U.S. Treasury Secretary) Larry Summers from the U.S. to tone down his comments on the dollar. His comments at the G20 are crucial if central banks are to intervene again to prop up the euro.

It was one of the best Australian summers for Sri Lanka ever. Brett was bowling very quick, on very quick tracks, but we settled ourselves and knew exactly what to do. We worked very hard to get used to those conditions, and we will do the same here.

I grew up in Colorado and spent my summers in Montana as a ranch hand.

I'll tell what, old Bobbie Williams and Larry Summers did a great job. Bobbie seems to be able to find the ball every week now, and that's great. We just hope that he can continue it.

I haven't seen too many guys spend their summers in a defensive stance.

Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'

I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.

Charles has been a great leader out there. Summers has gotten much better. We have some great leaders.

Homeowners who live here nine months of the year and go home to escape the heat of our summers are not tourists.

These are great all-ages events. I just hope that they can continue to brighten up the summers of all our residents.

The great magic of Bald Head Island is that it lets people discover a pace they may not have thought existed in this day and age. Summers on Bald Head are just like summers when we were kids -- you get the feeling you've got endless time ahead of you to spend exactly as you please.

And Summers and Winters scattered like splinters And four or five years slipped away

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.