86 Summer Quotes To Perfectly Describe This Special Season
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The days are longer, the sun shines brighter, and just like that, it’s summertime. Shed your sweaters and take out your swimsuits for the hottest (and most fun!) time of the year. School’s out, teachers and kids can relax, and everyone just seems to take it easy all around. Who doesn’t like summer? These summer quotes for kids will help you and your students ring in the best season under the sun. Shine on!
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Summer Quotes From Literature and Poetry
1. What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? — John Steinbeck
2. I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer—its dust and lowering skies. — Toni Morrison
3. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape. — Harper Lee
5. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you. — Langston Hughes
6. Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. — Pablo Neruda
7. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. — William Shakespeare
8. The summer night is like a perfection of thought. — Wallace Stevens
9. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air’s salubrity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats. — Edith Wharton
11. When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can’t say in real life. — Jenny Han
12. 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
13. In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lie an invincible summer. — Albert Camus
14. Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something’s going to change now and I’m not going to be able to change it back. — Jacqueline Woodson
15. It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, “Don’t listen to Rabbit, listen to me.” So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit. — A.A. Milne
16. A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature laughed in the sunshine. — Anne Brontë
17. The summer dawn’s reflected hue, to purple changed Loch Katrine blue, mildly and soft the western breeze, just kiss’d the lake, just stirr’d the trees. — Walter Scott
18. The Pleading of the Summer, That other Prank, of Snow, That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels – know. — Emily Dickinson
19. That beautiful season, the Summer of All-Saints! 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
20. I’ve found that there is always some beauty left—in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. — Anne Frank
21. There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening’s dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal. — Oscar Wilde
22. This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. — William Shakespeare
23. I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
24. I have a summer gift, A sunny gift for thee: See this white vase, where blooms A beautiful rose tree. — Leticia Elizabeth Landon
25. The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day. — Michael Chabon
26. Thin clouds form, and the shadows lengthen out. They have no breadth, as summer shadows have; there are no leaves on the trees or fat clouds in the sky to make them thick. — Stephen King
27. August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. — Sylvia Plath
28. People who don’t even notice whether it’s summer or winter are lucky! If I lived in Moscow, I don’t think I’d care what the weather was like. — Anton Chekov
29. A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria. … — Anne Rice
30. For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. — Aristotle
31. Harry had no idea where Dumbledore went during the summer holidays. He amused himself for a moment, picturing Dumbledore, with his long silver beard, full-length wizard’s robes, and pointed hat, stretched out on a beach somewhere, rubbing suntan lotion onto his long crooked nose. — J.K. Rowling
32. How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door. — Emily Dickinson
33. When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold. — J.R.R. Tolkien
34. I know, that if odour were visible as colour is, I’d see the summer garden aureoled in rainbow clouds. — Robert Bridges
35. A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England. — Rudyard Kipling
36. Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree? — Edgar Allan Poe
37. The loorie brought to his cinnamon nest, The bee from the midst of its honey quest, And open the leaves of the lotus lay To welcome the noon of the summer day. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
38. Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp—everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs. — E.B. White
39. The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. — George R.R. Martin
40. I’d give all wealth that years have piled, The slow result of Life’s decay, To be once more a little child For one bright summer-day. — Lewis Carroll
42. 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
43. He was sunshine most always—I mean he made it seem like good weather. — Mark Twain
44. In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts—something for conversation in winter evenings. — Henry David Thoreau
45. The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year—the days when summer is changing into autumn—the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change. — E.B. White
46. I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
48. It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. — Maud Hart Lovelace
49. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer. — Jenny Han
50. Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer’s evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory. — Hans Christian Andersen
51. My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. — George R.R. Martin
Summer Quotes by Songwriters and Musicians
52. We danced all night / And swam at dawn / In the summer of ’89. — Phish
53. Summer means happy times and good sunshine. — Brian Wilson
54. Comes the summer rain / Cue the lightning and far-off thunder again / Projecting through the clouds / Meditations, and drifting off in the sound. — Pearl Jam
55. Here by the sea and sand / Nothing ever goes as planned. — The Who
56. If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it. — Jimmy Buffett
57. Take a vacation, fall out for a while / Summer’s coming in and it’s going out in style. — Grateful Dead
58. I’m gonna soak up the sun / Gonna tell everyone to lighten up. — Sheryl Crow
59. Sigma oasis alone on a beach / Protecting a castle the tides never reached. — Phish
60. In the summertime, when the weather is high / You can stretch right up and touch the sky. — Mungo Jerry
61. One day you’ll look to see I’ve gone / For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun. — The Beatles
62. Summer breeze makes me feel fine / Blowin’ through the jasmine in my mind. — Seals & Crofts
63. Winter, spring, summer or fall / All you have to do is call. — James Taylor
64. The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief. — Leonard Cohen
65. Summer has come and passed / The innocent can never last. — Green Day
66. Sun is shining, the weather is sweet / Make you want to move your dancing feet. — Bob Marley
67. I once knew a girl / In the years of my youth / With eyes like the summer / All beauty and truth. — Ben Gibbard
68. Oh, when I look back now / That summer seemed to last forever. — Bryan Adams
69. On an island in the sun / We’ll be playing and having fun. — Weezer
70. School’s out for summer / School’s out forever. — Alice Cooper
71. ’Cause a little bit of summer’s what the whole year’s all about. — John Mayer
72. Here comes the Sun King / Ev’rybody’s laughing / Ev’rybody’s happy. — The Beatles
73. Winter rain, now tell me why / Summers fade and roses die. / Winter gray and falling rain / We’ll see summer come again. — Grateful Dead
74. Summer time an’ the livin’ is easy / Fish are jumpin’ an’ the cotton is high. — Ira Gershwin
More Inspiring Summer Quotes
75. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school. — Michael Eisner
76. Summer passes, and one remembers one’s exuberance. — Yoko Ono
77. The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Cousteau
78. A beach walk is for stretching your legs and your mind, for looking at life with newfound eyes. — Sandy Gingras
79. The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy. — Henry Ward Beecher
80. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. — John Lubbock
81. A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window. — Dejon Stojanovic
82. Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon. — C. Day Lewis
83. We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
84. 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. — Ada Louise Huxtable
85. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. — Helen Keller
86. How quick time goes by now, compared to when you were a kid. Summer used to last forever. Now it’s twelve weeks. — John Goodman
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