My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off..

[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the a….

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can….

The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration..

O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." ….

I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and an eight-week c….

Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - ….

I don't make summer jams or albums based on time or seasons; my goal is to make quality music, timeless music. I'm not looking at the calendar..

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beauti….

I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, try….

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and….

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer..

In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon..

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger..

I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-wate….

Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had a biting ….

...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive w….

It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stea….

And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can go to the zoo or the botanical garden or th….

I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like a religion down there. It was tough to fi….

That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they we….