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The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer. -- George R. R. Martin
It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer? -- Matsuo Basho
I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs. -- William Joyce
By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they? -- William Westmoreland
To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.] -- Ann Patchett
Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers. -- Nash Grier
The end-of-summer winds make people restless. -- Sebastian Faulks
For me, my favorite trends of summer are lots of color, wedges, rompers and bright lipstick. -- Janel Parrish
Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring. -- Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season. -- Jerry Orbach
Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation of cynics about love. -- Tracy McMillan
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. -- Hal Borland
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies? -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an end, but nothing else did - all of these peoples' lives went on. -- Bill Bryson
This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish. -- Judith Thurman
I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January. -- Genevieve Gorder
There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air. -- Peter Mayle
But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight. -- Sarah Dessen
I knew Mohamed Atta had something to do in this operation. I knew definitely that the White House and World Trade Centre would be hit. I knew it would happen after August. I was told it would happen at the end of the summer. -- Zacarias Moussaoui
My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn't depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place. -- Robin Roberts
the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection. -- Nan Fairbrother
I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the summer between my junior and senior year. After I graduated, I ended up moving out to L.A. But in my senior year, I made it a part of my major. -- Wes Brown
I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of 'Tally's Folly' that spring term. I took a theater class that term and auditioned for 'Harvey' at the end of the summer, and I was in a play every semester after that. -- Kevin Rahm
Game by game is how I judge myself. At the end of the season, yeah, I do look back and think about how many games I've been available for, how many goals I've scored, how I've contributed. But that's what the summer's for. For now, you just look to the next one. -- Michael Owen
I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government, -- Joe Biden
So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green. -- Augusten Burroughs
You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main headliner on the Vegas Strip, so that's a big deal for me. Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I've dreamed of since I was about 10 years old. -- Billy Gardell
Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit. -- Norman Mailer
When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies. -- Mary Roach
A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer. -- Aaron Sorkin
At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push. -- Summer Sanders
Protein is important and hard for me to get in a hurry. We're busy. I don't always remember to thaw the chicken for dinner. I always have eggs, and they're light and satisfying. I never feel stuffed at the end of it. -- Summer Sanders
Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid. -- Summer Sanders
When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got. -- Summer Glau
To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge. -- Summer Sanders
I'm really conscious of the amount of food I eat, but I don't deny myself anything. For example, I have a really big sweet tooth. At the end of the night, if I'm craving ice cream, I might not have the bowl that I would have when I was a kid, but I'll put a couple of scoops in a coffee mug, and I'll eat it slowly, and I enjoy every moment of it. -- Summer Sanders
and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928, -- Ray Bradbury
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well. -- George R. R. Martin
Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey. -- Darnell Lamont Walker
Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end. -- Jane Porter
Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead. -- William Allingham
Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds. -- Henry David Thoreau
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy. -- Magnus Carlsen
I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend? -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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