Summer Quotes

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  • “The end-of-summer winds make people restless.” ― Sebastian Faulks
  • “I was made for sunny days.” ~ Anonymous
  • “Long summer days can calm the angriest of beasts.” – Bert McCoy
  • “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
  • “If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.” ~ Anonymous
  • “When all else fails, take a vacation.” – Betty Williams
  • “Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer.” – Nat King Cole
  • I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this. ―Susan Branch
  • You are so much sunshine in every square inch. ―Walt Whitman
  • “Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” ― George R.R. Martin
  • “Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” – Porgy and Bess
  • “It is easy to forget how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.” – Anna Godbersen
  • Summertime is always the best of what might be. ―Charles Bowden
  • “Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.” — Melissa Marr
  • “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” — Robert Orben
  • “Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.” — Yoko Ono
  • “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” — Sam Keen
  • “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” — Al Bernstein
  • “Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.” — Zooey Deschanel
  • “Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.” — Kellie Elmore
  • “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” — Wallace Stevens
  • “She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water.” — Katie Daisy
  • “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” — William Shakespeare
  • “A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.” — John Mayer
  • There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ―Celia Thaxter
  • “Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”- Hosea Ballou
  • “I am more myself in a garden than anywhere else on earth.” ~ Don Green
  • “In summer, the song sings itself.” ~ William Carlos Williams
  • “Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.“ – Russell Baker
  • “We know summer is the height of being alive.” ― Gary Shteyngart
  • “The sun tires of summer and sighs itself into autumn.” – Terri Guillemets
  • “The only time that love takes a holiday is when we go on vacation together.” – Anthony T. Hincks
  • “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” — L.M. Montgomery
  • “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … It’s summertime!” — Kenny Chesney
  • “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” — Jenny Han
  • “Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.” — Bryan Procter
  • “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” — Kellie Elmore
  • Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows. ―Helen Keller
  • It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.” -Walter Winchell
  • “In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”- Albert Camus
  • “If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.” ~ Katie Lee
  • “Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.” ~ Helen Keller
  • “Summer should get a speeding ticket – goes by way too fast!”
  • “There is no such thing as time to a man in a summer vacation.” – Henry Ward Beecher
  • “I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.” ― Isabelle Eberhardt
  • “Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.” — Debasish Mridha
  • “Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” — Van Morrison
  • If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ―Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky. ―Mungo Jerry
  • “Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” -Dodie Smith
  • “Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in sunshine.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
  • “Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me.” ~ Anonymous
  • “A life without love is like a year without summer.” — Swedish Proverb
  • “To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie–true poems flee.” – Emily Dickinson
  • “The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it.” ~ Katie Lee
  • “Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.” — John Steinbeck
  • “If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.” — Evelyn Waugh
  • Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon. ―C. Day Lewis
  • Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.” -Darnell Lamont Walker
  • “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” ― Shanti
  • “He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”- John Burroughs
  • “To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.” – Jeanne Moreau
  • “Palm trees, ocean breeze, salty air, sun-kissed hair. That endless summer, take me there.” – Michele Elder
  • “I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.” ― Michael Faudet
  • “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…” ― Susan Polis Schutz
  • One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. ―Henry David Thoreau
  • When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. ―Wilma Rudolph
  • “One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” — Jeannette Walls
  • “It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.” — Anna Godbersen
  • “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” ―Sylvia Plath
  • “Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” ~ Brian Wilson
  • “I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. — Robert Bridges
  • Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” ― Nora Ephron
  • What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ―John Steinbeck
  • Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. ―William Shakespeare
  • “I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.” ~ Jack McBrayer
  • “Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.” — K.D. Lang
  • I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. ―Edna St. Vincent Mallay
  • “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” —Henry James
  • “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” — Maud Hart Lovelace
  • “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz
  • “I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.” — Toni Morrison
  • “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”- Langston Hughes
  • We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us. ―Jenny Uglow
  • “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” ―Aimee Friedman