I hope these quick but powerful sayings will help you to make the most of these warm August days and the last of your summer.“This morning, the sun endures past dawn.
I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.” – Sara Baume“August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water.” – Mary Oliver“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.” – Natalie Babbitt“The quiet August noon has come.
A slumberous silence fills the sky. The winds are still, the trees are dumb. In glassy sleep, the waters lie.” – William Cullen Bryant“Today is the first day of August; it is no longer July.
Summer passes, and Summer friends will melt away like snow in spring.” – Rolf van der Wind“August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year.