Summer refers to one of the four seasons, typically occurring between spring and autumn. It is characterized by warmer temperatures, longer days, and abundant sunlight. In many regions, summer represents a time of vibrant growth and activity in nature, with trees in full foliage, flowers blooming, and an array of outdoor activities available. It’s a season associated with vacations, relaxation, outdoor events, and various leisure activities like swimming, hiking, and barbecues. Summer is known for its warmth, brightness, and the sense of freedom and adventure it often brings.
Summer Quotes
1. “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
2. “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
3. “Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
― Helen Keller
4. “Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz
5. “Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.”
― Mario Fernández
6. “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
― Langston Hughes
7. “Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.”
― Bryan Procter
8. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck
9. “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
10. “In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.”
― Sarah Dessen
11. “Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape…”
― Harper Lee
12. “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
― Wallace Stevens
13. “Tears of joy are like the summer raindrops pierced by sunbeams.”
― Hosea Ballou
14. “Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”
― Roman Payne
15. “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace
16. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
― Jenny Han
17. “Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.”
― Van Morrison
18. “One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
― Henry David Thoreau
19. “There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
― Celia Thaxter
20. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine… it’s summertime!”
― Kenny Chesney
21. “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.”
― Patricia Briggs
22. “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…”
― Susan Polis Schutz
23. “I will always seek to make it summer for you.”
― Leigh Bardugo
24. “Summer means happy times and good sunshine.”
― Brian Wilson
25. “You are so much sunshine in every square inch.”
― Walt Whitman
26. “I wanna soak up the sun.”
― Sheryl Crow
27. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
― Charles Bowden
28. “Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.”
― Kellie Elmore
29. “I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days.”
― Danielle Steel
30. “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
― Kellie Elmore
31. “I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.”
― Jack McBrayer
32. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me.”
― Benjamin Alire Saenz
33. “In summer, the song sings itself.”
― William Carlos Williams
34. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
― L.M. Montgomery
35. “Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.”
― Yoko Ono
36. “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
37. “Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
― Ray Bradbury
38. “It’s like a beach blanket and a bottle of wine, it feels something like summertime.”
― Bon Jovi
39. “Come with me,’ Mom says.
To the library.
Books and summertime
go together.”
― Lisa Schroeder
40. “One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
― Jeannette Walls
41. “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
― Sam Keen
42. “If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.”
― Unknown
43. “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.”
― Al Bernstein
44. “If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.”
― Katie Lee
45. “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.”
― Robert Orben
46. “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James
47. “Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.”
― Debasish Mridha
48. “’Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
― John Mayer
49. “Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
― Pablo Neruda
50. “In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.”
― John Steinbeck
51. “She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water.”
― Katie Daisy
52. “It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”
― Anna Godbersen
53. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
54. “I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.”
― Susan Branch
55. “In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and touch the sky.”
― Mungo Jerry
56. “Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you, my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”
― K.D. Lang
57. “Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”
― C. Day Lewis
58. “I am more myself in a garden than anywhere else on earth.”
― Dough Greene
59. “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
― J. B. Priestley
60. “All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.”
― Shannon L. Alder
61. “It’s a new dawn, It’s a new day, It’s a new life for me. And I’m feeling good.”
― Nina Simone