Warm Summer Conditions

Famous quotes containing the words warm, summer and/or conditions:

    “I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.”
    —Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)