Great Summer Quotes:

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

source: Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of the Island”, p.150, Gideon House Books

topic: Summer, June, Would Be, Great Summer

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

- Russell Baker

topic: Summer, Nature, Suffering, Summer Garden, Summer Inspirational

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand.

- Bar Refaeli

topic: Summer, Hands, Perfect, Summer Breeze, Summer Garden

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

source: Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.462, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Summer, Clothes, Drunk, Summer Garden, Summer Inspirational

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Summer, Winter, Littles, Summer And Winter, Summer Inspirational

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

- Bryan Procter

topic: Summer, Night, Light, Late Summer, Summer Breeze

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

- Wallace Stevens

topic: Summer, Night, Perfection, Late Summer, Summer Breeze

A life without love is like a year without spring.

- Octavian Paler

topic: Spring, Love Is, Years, Spring Summer, Late Summer

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

- Kenny Chesney

source: Song: Summertime, Album: The Road And The Radio, 2005

topic: Summer, Wine, Kissing, Summer Is Coming, Summer Love

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

topic: Summer, Sunshine, Tree, Summer Inspirational, Summer Is Coming

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Summer, Too Short, Lease, Love Poems, Spring May

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

- Anton Chekhov

source: 'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

topic: Happiness, Happy, Summer, Summer And Winter, Summer Garden

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

source: Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.269, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

topic: Summer, August, Weather, Summer Garden, Summer Weather

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

- Henry James

topic: Beautiful, Summer, Time, Solstice, Late Summer

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

source: Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

topic: Summer, Time, Spring, Spring Gardening, Spring Summer

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

- Bernard Williams

topic: Love, Summer, Night, Summer Garden, Summer Inspirational

In summer, the song sings itself.

- William Carlos Williams

source: William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.349, New Directions Publishing

topic: Summer, Song, Nature, Summer Flower, Summer Inspirational

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

topic: Anniversary, Nature, Spring, March Poems, Spring Day

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1309, Harvard University Press

topic: Summer, Nature, Lying, Summer Garden, Summer Inspirational

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

source: John Vance Cheney (1922). “My Hearthside: Poems Written to Sally”

topic: Summer, Heart, Air, Summer Inspirational, Great Summer

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

topic: Beautiful, Summer, June, Dreamy, Summer Garden

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.

- Billy Graham

topic: Love, Summer, Flower, Summer Garden, Summer Inspirational

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. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day?

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Summer, Spring, Winter, Candle Lights, Summer Days

I'd be happy with this summer if it's all we ever had.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.203, Scholastic UK

topic: Summer, Shiver, Ifs, Summer Breeze, Summer Is Coming

While we're young and beautiful, living free and easy. Here without a worry, dancing in our bare feet because when the summer's done we might not be so young and beautiful.

- Carrie Underwood

topic: Beautiful, Summer, Feet, End Of Summer, Great Summer

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

topic: Summer, Mother, Hurt, Thirteen, Summer Is Coming

Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.

- Regina Brett

topic: Summer, Running, Stars, Cartwheels, Great Summer

Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!

- Michael Connelly

topic: Summer, Adventure, Character, Land And Sea, Great Summer