Famous quotes containing the words heat wave, summer, heat and/or wave:
“We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)
“Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps.
The sky is a blue gum streaked with rose. The trees are black.
The grackles crack their throats of bone in the smooth air.
Moisture and heat have swollen the garden into a slum of bloom.
Pardie! Summer is like a fat beast, sleepy in mildew....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The LORD will afflict you with consumption, fever, inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, and with blight and mildew...”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 28:22.
““Speaking of contraries, see how the brook
In that white wave runs counter to itself.
It is from that in water we were from
Long, long before we were from any creature.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)