Summer Quotes

• 

  Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

  Langston Hughes

  Rain, Humor, Air

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.525, University of Missouri Press

  113 Copy quote

  Show source

• Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

  Mark Twain

  Shining, Sun, Headstone

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3018, GENERAL PRESS

  31 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Spring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 16, 2015

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

• In summer, the song sings itself.

  William Carlos Williams

  Song, Nature, Summertime

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

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• May summer last a hundred years.

  Frances Mayes

  Years, May, Lasts

  7 Copy quote

• Wander a whole summer if you can.  Time will not be taken from the sum of life.  Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.

  John Muir

  Taken, Wander, Immortal

  120 Copy quote

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

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Time, Two

  Quoted in Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934)

  36 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

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

  Kenny Chesney

  Wine, Kissing, Summertime

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

  181 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Positive, Nature

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.296

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

  'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

• How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.

  Emily Dickinson

  Doors

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.327, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

  5 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.

  81 Copy quote

  Show source

• And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Dream, Seems

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.39, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Beautiful, June, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Penguin

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

  Cole Porter

  Travel, Paris, Drizzle

  Song: I Love Paris

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

  William Shakespeare

  Poetry, Too Short, Love Poems

  Sonnet 18

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  Hal Borland

  June, Long, Gone

  9 Copy quote

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

  Bar Refaeli

  Hands, Perfect, Shining

  23 Copy quote

• A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Happiness, Spiritual

  118 Copy quote

• The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

  Wallace Stevens

  Night, Perfection, Summertime

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.358, Vintage

  80 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  36 Copy quote

• There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.

  Celia Thaxter

  Inspirational, Grateful, Heart

  Celia Thaxter (1872). “Poems”, p.40

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

  Regina Brett

  Stars, Lying, Clouds

  18 Copy quote

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

  John Steinbeck

  Winter, Weather, Snow

  136 Copy quote

• If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, August

  101 Copy quote