Celia Thaxter (Celia Laighton Thaxter) Quotes

O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter's sorrow Already we can hear. And we know that the frosts will find us, And the smiling skies grow rude, While we look in the face of Beauty, And worship her every mood.

Celia Thaxter

• Summer
• Mood
• Sorrow
• Worship
• Divine
• Rude

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• I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

  

  Otis Redding
  • People
  • Love
  • Nice

• I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Water
  • Childhood
  • Sea

• My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Mood

• I love feminine soft shades for summers - I like pastels and bright hues, too. I like summer dresses and tank tops; I think they never go out of style. As much as I'm happy with Western wear for red carpet and social dos, I also like Indian ethnic wear for special occasions.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Style

• The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.

  

  Halsey
  • You
  • Environment
  • Someone

• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Question
  • Students
  • Worship

• We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Time
  • Family
  • House

• I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Character
  • Devil
  • Mood

• Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Summer

• I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Love
  • Play
  • Summer

• I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.

  

  David Wain
  • Summer

• What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.

  

  James Gray
  • Character
  • Action
  • Emotional

• I would love to fly privately, but unfortunately, I don't. I don't summer anywhere either.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Summer
  • Fly

• I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • High
  • Summer

• I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Mood
  • Consistency

• In the years that I have been an actress, I have told the story of my life many times, and I get tired of it, so sometimes I change it a little. That is, I change the mood. If I am feeling sad, then I remember to tell only the sad things. If I am feeling happy, then I can remember only to tell all the good things.

  

  Danielle Darrieux
  • Life
  • Good
  • Remember

• As I see it, the debate between summer vacation vs. year-round school glosses over the most important questions. Namely, how can we bring play back to our nation's schools?

  

  Darell Hammond
  • Important
  • School
  • Summer

• Spring and summer in Pittsburgh mean outdoor festivals.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Summer
  • Spring
  • Outdoor

• Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Summer
  • Afternoon
  • English Language

• It's my obligation to ensure that we have the legislative framework in place so key law enforcement agencies can do their jobs.

  

  Anne McLellan
  • Jobs
  • Framework
  • Legislative

• Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Loved

• I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Myself
  • Hands
  • Los Angeles

• The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

  

  H. L. Mencken

• O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter's sorrow Already we can hear. And we know that the frosts will find us, And the smiling skies grow rude, While we look in the face of Beauty, And worship her every mood.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Summer
  • Mood
  • Sorrow