Summer Sun Quotes

• Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Shining, Sun

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

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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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• Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Dance, Flower, Hair

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• The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Summer, Rain, Boys

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer, Great Gatsby Book, Conviction

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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

  Octavian Paler

  Summer, Spring, Love Is

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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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• Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis.

  Aimee Friedman

  Summer, Stupidity, Diagnosis

  Aimee Friedman (2012). “Ocean of Secrets”, p.148, Scholastic UK

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• Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Summer, Strong

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1838). “Oliver Twist: Or, The Parish Boy's Progress”

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• It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations: Classic English Literature”, p.394, 谷月社

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• The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Summer, Wind, People

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Summer, Sunshine, June

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

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• 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

  Summer, Spring, Sunset

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

  Rupert Brooke

  Summer, Nature, Laughter

  Cambridge Review 8 Dec. 1910, "Sonnet"

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

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Winter, Weather

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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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• 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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• I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

  John Keats

  Love, Marriage, Summer

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.245, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

  Mark Twain

  Romantic, Good Night, Summer

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Albert Bigelow Paine (2014). “The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies: 4 Mark Twain Biographies In 1 Book: Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain + My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells’ + Mark Twain A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine + The Boys’ Life Of Mark Twain By Albert Bigelow Paine”, p.1366, e-artnow

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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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• 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

  Love, Summer, Flower

  Billy Graham (2011). “The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life”, p.149, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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