Top 8 Sunny Afternoon Quotes

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Henry Adams

Summer, Sunny Weather, Sunny Afternoon

Henry Adams (1946). “The Education of Henry Adams”

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

B. C. Forbes

Yield, Sunny Weather, Sunny Afternoon

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

W. H. Auden

Sunny Afternoon, Shy, Sunny Day

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Taken, Sunny Afternoon, Belief

Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.

Kim Edwards

Eye, Sunny Afternoon, East

Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.76, Penguin

I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high.

Deke Slayton

Nice, Sunny Afternoon, Feet

Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

George Eliot

Horse, Doors, Sunny Afternoon

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.431