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There’s so much to look forward to in summer! These summer quotes will get you ready for the funnest time of year.
Whether it starts early on Memorial Day weekend, or you wait for the solstice in June, many of us look forward to the first day of summer all year.
Beach vacations. Pool time. Swimsuits and ice cream. Long days, short nights, sunshine, warm weather, and school holidays. Is it any wonder that we associate the summer months with feeling happy and carefree?
If you’re not excited for summer already, we’ve got all the inspiration you need! Keep reading for some of the best quotes about summer… those long hot days will be here before you know it.
Summer Quotes
PinA little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.
John Mayer
In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams
Summertime is always the best of what might be.
Charles Bowden
Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
Brian Wilson
PinSummer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.
Henry David Thoreau
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
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.
John Steinbeck
PinOh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.
Bryan Procter
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
John Steinbeck
We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us.
Jenny Uglow
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph
I am more myself in a garden than anywhere else on earth.
Don Green
PinThe summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Wallace Stevens
Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me.
Unknown
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, The Great Gatsby
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.
Sylvia Plath
PinIf you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.
Susan Branch
Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
Jeanette Walls
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
Edna St. Vincent Mallay
PinWhen people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.
Aimee Friedman
All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.
L.M. Montgomery
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.
Anna Godberson
PinIt’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!
Kenny Chesney
If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.
Evelyn Waugh
Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
C. Day Lewis
You are so much sunshine in every square inch.
Walt Whitman
A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
Robert Orben
PinThere shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
Celia Thaxter
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
William Shakespeare
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.
Helen Keller
Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.
Kellie Elmore
In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky.
Mungo Jerry
PinWhat’s your favorite summer quote or memory? Share it with your friends and inspire someone else to try something new.
And if you want to make the most of summer, here are 10 Books to Read in Summer while you’re tanning on the beach or by the pool.
I loved these post. The summer quotes were amazing and so relatable