134 Summer Quotes That No Sun Umbrella Can Block

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

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

"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

"Do what we can, summer will have its flies." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color." — Natalie Babbitt

"Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. 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; but most of all, summer was Dill." — Harper Lee

"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

"In summer, the song sings itself." — William Carlos Williams

"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

"Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance." — Yoko Ono

"Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne." — Bryan Procter

"Summer's lease hath all too short a date." — William Shakespeare

"There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart." — Celia Thaxter

“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

“Have you summered properly?”

“The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn; the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.” — J. R. Lowell

“I need summer to be longer so I have more time to do nothing.”

“Summer is finally here! School is out and I am kicking back my heels and watching the clouds go by.” – Yvonne Martinez Ward

“New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.” ― Peter Cameron

"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year." – Edna St. Vincent Millay