Summer Quotes

Quotes About Summer From Million Quotes

 

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. - Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit


Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. - Russel Baker


A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent


If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. - Bern Williams


Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
- Francis Thompson


To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee –
- Emily Dickinson, c.1879


What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. - Gertrude Jekyll


In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
- Robert Louis Stevenson


In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. - Aldo Leopold


I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.
- John Vance Cheney


It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out. - Bill Watterson


Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
- Barry Cornwall


In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus


There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. - Celia Thaxter


The summer night is like a perfection of thought. - Wallace Stevens


In summer, the song sings itself. - William Carlos Williams


Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. - Sam Keen


Summer has set in with its usual severity. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge


People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. - Anton Chekhov


A life without love is like a year without summer. - Swedish Proverb


Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic,
nourishing Night!
Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!
- Walt Whitman


What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. - John Steinbeck


Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. - Erma Bombeck


The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. - Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Mark Twain


Do what we can, summer will have its flies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. - F. Scott Fitzgerald


One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by. - Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle


Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly....
- Pablo Neruda


Heat, ma’am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. - Sydney Smith, Lady Holland’s Memoir


Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. - John Lubbock, "Recreation," The Use of Life, 1894


Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose. - Author Unknown


There is no price set on the lavish summer,
And June may be had by the poorest comer.
- James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal




It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. - Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib, 1941


Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. - Henry James


[W]oods are filled with the music of birds, and all nature is laughing under the glorious influence of Summer. - Charles Lanman, "The Dying Year," 1840


Hey! It’s summer! Be free and happy and danceful and uninhibited and now-y! - Terri Guillemets


O for a summer noon, when light and breeze
Sport on the grass, like ripples o’er a lake
Alive with freshness! when the full round Sun,
With the Creator’s smile upon his face,
Walks like a prince of glory through the path
Of Heaven!—Thou vast, and ever-glorious sky,
Mantling the earth with thy majestic robe...
- Robert Montgomery, "Beautiful Influences," A Universal Prayer; Death; A Vision of Heaven; and A Vision of Hell; &c. &c., 1829


I am Summer, come to lure you away from your computer... come dance on my fresh grass, dig your toes into my beaches. - Oriana Green, @NatureSpirits


Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year — it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. - Author Unknown


Then followed that beautiful season... Summer....
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it,
We are happy now because God so wills it;
No matter how barren the past may have been,
’T is enough for us now that the leaves are green;
We sit in the warm shade and feel right well
How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell...
The breeze comes whispering in our ear,
That dandelions are blossoming near...
Every thing is upward striving;
’T is as easy now for the heart to be true
As for grass to be green or skies to be blue, —
’T is the natural way of living...
- James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal


I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicadae lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder. - Terri Guillemets


In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They accept June. They compliment its weather. They complain of the earlier months as cold, and so spend them in the city; and they complain of the later months as hot, and so refrigerate themselves on some barren sea-coast. God offers us yearly a necklace of twelve pearls; most men choose the fairest, label it June, and cast the rest away. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "April Days," 1861  [This attribution isn't perfectly accurate. The piece was published in 1861 in The Atlantic Monthly, but the wording here is from Higginson's collected Procession of the Flowers and Kindred Papers from 1897. In the original version, "American" is "New England" as well as a couple of other minor changes in wording. —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]


At last [Spring] comes where the Summer stands
Girt around with his fiery bands;
Who steppeth forth as he sees her come,
And opens his arms for a welcome home;
Then towards her, coming, he steps apace,
And folds her into his close embrace.
- J.J. Britton (1832–1913), "Epithalamium"


I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days — three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. - John Keats


Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world. - Ada Louise Huxtable


The sun tires of summer and sighs itself into autumn. - Terri Guillemets


Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis, I decided as I made my way up the dirt path in the pouring rain. - Aimee Friedman, Sea Change


Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond. The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad. It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing. - Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist


If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe... - Evelyn Waugh


A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter. - Patricia Briggs


June, thy beauty is a snare,
To waste time in visions rare;
Of vain dreaming, oh, beware!
- Caroline May, 1887


The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. - Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting


This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders. - Sarah Orne Jewett


The end-of-summer winds make people restless. - Sebastian Faulks, Engleby


There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go? -  Joe Wheeler