Summertime Quotes - Page 2

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

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Summer, Time

  Quoted in Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934)

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

  Bar Refaeli

  Summer, Hands, Perfect

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Summer, Nature

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• There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

  Bill Bowerman

  Funny, Motivational, Nike

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  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.

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• The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Night, Perfection

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

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

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Summer

  'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

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• 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

  Summer, June, Long

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• You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertime

  Andrea Gibson

  War, Cold, War With Yourself

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

  Patricia Briggs

  Summer, Mean, Winter

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

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• 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

  Summer, Winter, Knowing

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• 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

  Summer, Mother, Hurt

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• Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Garden, Insects

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Summer, Fruit, Always Alone

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

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• A life without love is like a year without spring.

  Octavian Paler

  Summer, Spring, Love Is

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• Summer has set in with its usual severity.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Summer, July, Usual

  Quoted in a letter from Charles Lamb to V. Novello, 9 May 1826

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• 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

  Summer, Time, Spring

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

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• The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
  All on a summer day:
  The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
  And took them quite away!

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Queens, Heart

  1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.11,'Who Stole the Tarts?'.

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• 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

  Summer, August, Weather

  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

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

  Bryan Procter

  Smile, Summer, Night

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• 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

  Summer, Winter, Night

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Bed in Summer" l. 1 (1885)

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• 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, Summer

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Relationship, Summer, Heart

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

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• Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

  Hosea Ballou

  Inspirational, Summer, Rain

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• Tears are summer showers to the soul.

  Alfred Austin

  Summer, Soul, Tears

  "Savonarola: A Tragedy".

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