Hal Roach quotes

Hal Roach quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

Source : "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977
“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”

Source : Aimee Friedman (2009). “Sea Change”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.
“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...”

Source : Aimee Friedman (2012). “Ocean of Secrets”, p.148, Scholastic UK
“I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.”
“The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.”
“If you're in California and it's raining, stay home, because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.”
“Life isnâ€™t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.”
“Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet. Isn't it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.”
“In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.”

Source : "Georgia shows off her bum and boobs as she competes for 100 Sexiest Women position" by Beth Hardie, www.mirror.co.uk. May 1, 2012.
“You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.”

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