Summer Quotes

• 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

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  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

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• May summer last a hundred years.

  Frances Mayes

  Years, May, Lasts

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  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

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  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

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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, Time, Two

  Quoted in Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934)

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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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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• 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

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

  William Shakespeare

  Poetry, Too Short, Love Poems

  Sonnet 18

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

  Celia Thaxter

  Inspirational, Grateful, Heart

  Celia Thaxter (1872). “Poems”, p.40

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

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, August

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• The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.

  Anais Nin

  Paws, Summer Days, Softness

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• 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

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  No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

  John Donne

  Beauty, Spring, Fall

  'Elegies' 'The Autumnal' (1599-1601)

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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, Clothes, Drunk

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

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

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Happiness, Spiritual

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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, Flower, Heart

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

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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

  Sunshine, Tree, Literature

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

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Sunshine, June, Rose

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

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

  Hosea Ballou

  Inspirational, Rain, Joy

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• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

  William Shakespeare

  August, Misunderstood, Thee

  Sonnet 18

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