"Summertime and the livin' is easy." -- Porgy and Bess --

 "It's summer and time for wandering . . ." -- Kellie Elmore --

 "I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this." -- Susan Branch --

 "People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky --

 "Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem." -- A. A. Milne --

 "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." -- St. Francis of Assisi --

 "To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconqured mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told - that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks." -- Beryl Markham --

 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." -- George Bernard Shaw --

 "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." -- Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre --

 "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." -- Nelson Mandela --

 "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." -- Abraham Lincoln --

 "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -- 
Aldous Huxley --

  "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." -- Ronald Reagan --

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." -- Arthur O'Shaughnessy -- 

 "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." -- Victor Hugo --

 "Where words fail, music speaks." -- Hans Christian Andersen --

 "The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable." -- W. H. Auden --

 "Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering." -- Lailah Gifty Akita -- 

 "Summertime is always the best of what might be. -- Charles Bowden

"Cause a little bit of summer is what the shole year is about." -- John Mayer --

 "We know summer is the height of being alive." -- Gary Shteyngart --

 "It's always summer somewhere." -- Lilly Pulitzer --

 "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -- Mark Twain --

 "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." -- George Eliot --

 "Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to." -- Alfred A. Montapert --

 "An animal's eyes have the  power to speak a great language." -- Martin Buber -- 

 "A dog is the only thing on Earth that loves you more than he loves himself." -- Josh Billings --

 "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness." -- Maya Angelou --

 "If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die." -- William Shakespeare --

 "Without music, life would be a blank to me." -- Jane Austen --

 "I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I beleive wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind." -- John Diefenbaker --