Alexander Hume quotes

“All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day."”
-- Alexander Hume

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“Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.”
-- Alexander Hume

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“I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.”

“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.

“Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.”

“Don’t mind me,” I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.” “No, you diddn’t,” Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasn’t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little. Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.”

“On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.”

“The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st”

“July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of every day life, such as work.”

“My name, the McGregor name, my family's motto ... means royal is in my blood. That goes way back. So for [Aldo] to say he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to work. But we are in a new time. So I'll whoop his ***** in July.”

“I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.”

“Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.”