Top 63 Summer Quotes

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Summer is a great time of year. It is finally hot enough to go to the beach, wear a swim suit, and go to the pool. With that in mind, check out the top 63 summer quotes.

#63 – 60. Summer Quotes

63. “Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”  George R.R. Martin

62. “Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.” Zooey Deschanel

61. “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

60. “If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe…” Evelyn Waugh

#59 – 50. Summer Quotes

59. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.” Helen Keller

58. “We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us.” Jenny Uglow

57. “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” Sam Keen

56. “If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.” Evelyn Waugh

55. “Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” Van Morrison

54. “There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.” Celia Thaxter

53. “Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” Nora Ephron

52. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” Benjamin Alire Sáenz

51. “Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.” Bryan Procter

50. “Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

#49 – 40. Summer Quotes

49. “I started working out with my father the summer I was 13, which was incredible for our relationship. Those were my summers: working out with my dad, hanging out with my brothers, riding my bike. Pretty simple.” Michael Strahan

48. “A life without love is like a year without summer.” Swedish Proverb

47. “One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” Henry David Thoreau

46. “When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.” Taylor Swift

45. “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” Langston Hughes

44. “Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.” Hal Borland

43. “Spring has many American Faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.” Archibald Macleish

42. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” Charles Bowden

41. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” Jenny Han

40. “Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.” Kellie Elmore

#39 – 30. Summer Quotes

39. “When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” Wilma Rudolph

38. “It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.” Anna Godbersen

37. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!” Kenny Chesney

36. “In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.” John Steinbeck

35. “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” Maud Hart Lovelace

34. “Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is about.” John Mayer

33. “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” Aimee Friedman

32. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” Audrey Hepburn

31. “Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.” K.D. Lang

30. “I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We’d take a picnic, and I’d spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn’t get me out of there.” Olga Kurylenko

#29 – 20. Summer Quotes

29. “I am more myself in a garden than anywhere else on earth.” Dough Green

28. “I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I’m one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun—my children are horrified!” Danielle Steel

27. “The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it.” Katie Lee

26. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” William Shakespeare

25. “In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky.” Mungo Jerry

24. “One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” Jeanette Walls

23. “In summer, the song sings itself.” William Carlos Williams

22. “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

21. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

20. “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

#19 – 10. Summer Quotes

19. “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” Sylvia Plath

18. “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” Edna St. Vincent Mallay

17. “I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.” Susan Branch

16. “A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.” John Mayer

15. “You are so much sunshine in every square inch.” Walt Whitman

14. “Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.” C. Day Lewis

13. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.” John Lubbock

12. “Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” Brian Wilson

11. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” L.M. Montgomery

10. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”  John Steinbeck

#9 – 1. Summer Quotes

9. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” William Shakespeare

8. “Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Henry James

7. “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” Kellie Elmore

6. “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” Al Bernstein

5. “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” Robert Orben

4. “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” Wallace Stevens

3. “One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” Henry David Thoreau

2. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” Betty Williams

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

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