Great Summer Quotes

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

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Summer, June, Would Be

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

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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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• 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

  Love, Summer, Clothes

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

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

  Octavian Paler

  Summer, Spring, Love Is

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

  Russell Baker

  Summer, Nature, Suffering

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

  Kenny Chesney

  Summer, Wine, Kissing

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

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• 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

  Summer, Sunshine, Tree

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.481, e-artnow

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

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Poetry, Too Short

  Sonnet 18

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

  Bernard Williams

  Love, Summer, Night

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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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• In summer, the song sings itself.

  William Carlos Williams

  Summer, Song, Nature

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

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• 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

  Anniversary, Nature, Spring

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.82, Oxford University Press

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• 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

  Summer, Heart, June

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

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Nature, Lying

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

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• 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, Summer, June

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

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

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Summer, Shiver, Ifs

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

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• 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

  Beautiful, Summer, Feet

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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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