| |
FUNNY SUMMER QUOTES
I sweated buckets as I collected these funny summer quotes. I LAUGH at the summer heat—quotes are so cool!
ADVERTISEMENT
| |
|
"A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp."
— Raymond Duncan
"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."
— Erma Bombeck
"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."
— Sam Keen
"A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken."
— James Dent
"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
— attributed to Mark Twain
"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
|
FREE AUDIO CLIPS
| |
|
"It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do."
— Walter Winchell
"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
— Russell Baker
"It ain't the heat, it's the humility."
— Yogi Berra
"'Heat, ma'am!' I said; 'it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.'"
— Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir
|
| |
You can get new funny quotes every month free by email |
|
Know someone who would enjoy this page of Funny Summer Quotes? Send page |
|
| |
|
AMAZON PURCHASES FROM HERE HELP SUPPORT THIS FREE SITE. THANKS!
Titles link to DVD pages for each movie/show...
From The Simpsons
Store Manager: "Okay, people, we need to cook up a new holiday for the summer. Something with gifts, cards, assorted gougeables."
From 30 Rock
Jack Donaghy: "I've had the most productive summer of my life.... All of my summer replacement shows were big hits. America's Next Top Pirate... Are You Stronger Than a Dog... MILF Island...."
From Seinfeld
George Costanza: "But I really want to leave my mark this time. Like remember that summer at Dairy Queen when I cooled my feet in the soft serve?"
AMAZON PURCHASES FROM HERE HELP SUPPORT THIS FREE SITE. THANKS!
Search Amazon.com for more...
|
| |
|
"If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?"
— Steven Wright
"This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air."
— Bill Maher
"In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day."
— Robert Louis Stevenson
"It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out."
— Calvin (Bill Watterson)
|
| |
|
WHO KNOWS WHAT SUMMER SAVINGS LURK IN THE HEARTS OF SHADOWS?
Check out Grinning Planet's plans/DIY instructions for a
wall shade trellis that can save energy and lower air conditioning bills.
|
|
|
|
Free Speech Radio News
Rapid Melting of Ice Sheet in Andes Threatens Regional Water Supplies —
22 Apr 2013 —
More evidence is showing that the world's changing temperatures are prompting record ice melt, putting at risk large ice sheets. Though much of the current focus has been on the massive ice reserves in Greenland and the Arctic, scientists are finding that glaciers high in the mountains, such as in the Himalayas and the Andes, are also receding. A study published in Science documents the rapid changes in an ice cap high in the Andes in Peru, where ice that took 1,600 years to form has melted in just the past 25 years, putting at risk vital water sources for the region.
Go to page |
Download/Listen
6:48
NPR
Increased Carbon Dioxide Levels Damage Coral Reefs —
17 Apr 2013 —
Scientists have been worried about coral reefs for years, since realizing that rising temperatures and rising ocean acidity are hard on organisms that build their skeletons from calcium carbonate. Researchers on Australia's Great Barrier Reef are conducting an experiment that demonstrates just how much corals could suffer in the coming decades. ~~ In the second clip, a climate scientist from California has been conducting an experiment to see whether antacid can boost coral growth.
Part 1:
Go to page |
Download/Listen
6:05
Part 2:
Go to page |
Download/Listen
7:47
Living On Earth
Carbon-Neutral Copenhagen —
19 Apr 2013 —
In fall 2012, Copenhagen laid out an ambitious plan to become the world's first carbon-neutral capital by 2025. There's still a long way to go, but as reporter Justin Gerdes tells us, the Danish city has made great progress, with an ocean-water cooling system up and running, plus a bike super-highway and, of course, many windmills.
Go to page |
Download/Listen
6:55
MORE
Get more audio clips on the heating planet (and many more hot topics) in Grinning Planet's biweekly
downloadable audio news feed.
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
AMAZON PURCHASES FROM HERE HELP SUPPORT THIS FREE SITE. THANKS!
|
|
BACK TO TOP
|
|
|
|
|
Hey, we don't pick the Google ads! – GP
|
| |
| CLICKS ON OUR ADS AND PURCHASES VIA OUR AMAZON LINKS HELP SUPPORT THIS FREE SITE... THANKS! |
|
|

View on Amazon.com:
Calvin and Hobbes books
|
|