Summer Is Over Quotes

• All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.

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  William Stafford

  Summer   Winter   Wind  

  William Stafford (1977). “Stories that could be true: new and collected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.

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  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Summer   Fading Away   Dies  

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.55

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• I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

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  Jeff Kinney

  Summer   Morning   School  

  Jeff Kinney (2012). “Diary Of A Wimpy Kid”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer   Great Gatsby Book   Conviction  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly!

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  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Summer   Winter   Opposites  

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• It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

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  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Summer   Sunshine   June  

  Maud Hart Lovelace (2011). “Betsy-Tacy and Tib”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• The rains tumble down in the sky, Young swallows have learned how to fly, The leaves that were green are no longer so green, And it looks like the summer is over.

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  Tom Springfield

  Summer   Rain   Sky  

  "Song: 'Summer Is Over'". 1964.

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• Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.

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  Alice Hoffman

  Summer   Stars   Thinking  

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.122, Penguin

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• And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer   Sunshine   Tree  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.481, e-artnow

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