“There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.”

— Nora Roberts

Source: Rising Tides

Last update March 9, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer va…" by Nora Roberts?

Nora Roberts photo

Nora Roberts 124

American romance writer 1950

Related quotes

“Since a week ago last Saturday, we can no longer expect them to defend the law of God.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

These sects will work out the very logic of their ways, and in 50 or 100 years there will be only the Catholic Church and paganism. We will be left to fight the battle alone, and we will."
Quoted in The Birth Control Review, May 1931, volume XV, no. 5., pp. 143-144. Reaction to the report of the Federal Council of Churches in America which, in March 1931, "endorsed 'the careful and restrained use of contraceptives by married people,' while at the same time conceding that 'serious evils, such as extramarital sex relations, may be increased by general knowledge of contraceptives.'" http://lifedynamics.com/app/uploads/2015/09/1931-05-May.pdf https://www.google.com/search?q=Church+and+paganism.+We+will+be+left+to+fight+the+battle+alone%2C+and+we+will&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs#channel=rcs&tbm=bks&q=%22Since+a+week+ago+last+Saturday%2C+we+can+no+longer+expect+them+to+defend%22+

“Of all the days that's in the week
I dearly love but one day,
And that's the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.”

Henry Carey (1687–1743) English composer and playwright

Sally in our Alley (c. 1725).

“They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“My job is to give people who work hard all week something to enjoy on Saturdays and Wednesdays.”

Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager

6 February 2004
Quotations from the Public Comments of Arsene Wenger: Manager, Arsenal Football Club (2005)

“My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.”

Michael Chabon book The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Source: The Yiddish Policemen's Union

“If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as “spiritual life,” “God,” “soul,” “cross,” etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

June 15, 1844
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)

“It was Saturday night in America, and I felt like a native son.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

1980s, Generation of Swine (1988)

“Would you care for something to drink?”
“Is it poisoned?”
“It’s Saturday,” I said. “We only serve poison during the week.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

“On one occasion—it was an oppressive Saturday in the tense summer of 1939—I decided to ride my tricycle up and down Exeter Road near the house, but there was a sudden downpour and I got completely soaked. [Aunt] Annie wagged a finger at me, and shook her heavy head: “Riding on shabbas? You can't get away with it,” she said. “He sees everything, He is watching all the time!” I disliked Saturdays from this time on, disliked God, too (or at least the vindictive, punitive God that Annie's warning had evoked) and developed an uncomfortable, anxious, watched feeling about Saturdays”

Oliver Sacks book Uncle Tungsten

which persists, a little, to this day
Source: Uncle Tungsten (2001), p. 172

“We're drinking and we're dancing
but there's nothing really happening.
The place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

"Closing Time"
The Future (1992)

Related topics