“It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.”
Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist
Source: The Wizard Heir
Frank Keating, "Tributes flow as Johnners, voice of English cricket, dies at 81", The Guardian, 6 January 1994.
Tribute on the death of cricket commentator Brian Johnston.
1990s, 1994
“It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.”
Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist
Source: The Wizard Heir
Kate Clinton (1947) American comedian
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Elyne Mitchell (1913–2002) Australian writer
Source: Silver Brumby's Daughter
“Summer — summer — summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!”
John Galsworthy (1867–1933) English novelist and playwright
Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918)
Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) Austrian-born American sociologist
Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), Chapter 1, "Sociology as an Individual Pastime."
Arnold Wall (1869–1966) university professor, philologist, poet, mountaineer, botanist, writer, radio broadcaster
Poem: A Time Will Come (1915); Cited in: John Arlott, Fred Trueman (1971) Arlott and Trueman on cricket. p. 173
He is referring to cricket; later, "the beautiful game" was used to describe football.