Summer Is Coming Quotes:

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

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

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

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Summer, Conviction, Familiar, Summer Inspirational, Summer Is Coming

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

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Summer, Butterfly, June, Summer Inspirational, Summer Is Coming

But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ***** as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.

- Stephen King

topic: Summer, Fall, Light, Treacherous, Last Summer

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

- John Steinbeck

topic: Summer, Winter, Giving, Invincible Summer, Cold Weather

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Friendship, Summer, Grandmother, Friends Forever, Summer And Winter

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

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

- Maud Hart Lovelace

source: Maud Hart Lovelace (2011). “Betsy-Tacy and Tib”, p.11, Harper Collins

topic: Summer, Sunshine, June, Summer Is Coming, Summer Is Over

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

- Jeannette Walls

source: FaceBook post by Jeannette Walls from Jun 22, 2015

topic: Summer, Light, Each Day, Summer Is Coming, Summer Days

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 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

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

- Yoko Ono

topic: Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude, Spring Summer, Summer And Winter

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

- Patricia Briggs

source: Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Blood”, p.197, Penguin

topic: Summer, Mean, Winter, Summer And Winter, Summer Inspirational

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

- Nora Ephron

topic: Summer, Breeze, Bachelors, Summer Breeze, Summer Inspirational

Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

- Dodie Smith

topic: Summer, Autumn, Mist, Summer Is Coming, Fall Autumn

Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.

- Deb Caletti

topic: Summer, Quiet People, Wonderful, Summer Is Coming, Summer Love

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

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

- Benjamin Alire Saenz

topic: Summer, Pain, Secret, Summer Inspirational, Summer Is Coming

I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl, From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl, I’d love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girl, But I’m never warm enough for my lovely summer girl, It’s summer when she smiles, I’m laughing like a child, It’s the summer of our lives; we’ll contain it for a while She holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her hand I’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Summer, Girl, Children, Summer Breeze, Summer Is Coming

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

- David Mitchell

topic: Summer, Goodbye, Autumn, Summer Is Coming, End Of Summer

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Summer, Childhood, Enough, Summer Is Coming, End Of Summer

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

- Evelyn Waugh

source: Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.81, Penguin UK

topic: Summer, Fruit, Always Alone, Summer Is Coming, Summer Sun

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

source: Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

topic: Relationship, Summer, Heart, Spring Summer, Four Seasons

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.

- Natalie Babbitt

topic: Summer, Spring, Sunset, Ferris Wheels, Summer Inspirational

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Summer, Flower, Smell, Summer Flower, Summer Is Coming