Quote by Hal Borland
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent an

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. – Hal Borland

Other quotes by Hal Borland

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. – Hal Borland

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Nature
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Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it – Hal Borland

Category:
Retirement
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There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things. – Hal Borland

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Immigration
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Other Quotes from
Seasons
category

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. – Willa Cather

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Seasons

We humans were clearly highly seasonal beasts until the coming of electric light but traces remain. – Brian Follett

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Seasons

January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producers forehead. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Category:
Seasons

In the marvellous month of May
when all the buds were bursting,
then in my heart did
love arise.

In the marvellous month of May
when all the birds were singing,
then did I reveal to her
my yearning and longing. – Heinrich Heine

Category:
Seasons

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Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. – Erma Bombeck

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Graduation

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. – Zhuang Zi

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Wisdom

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. – Bill Veeck, 1975

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World Series

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize. – James Joyce

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Art