Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a…

All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day."

— Alexander Hume

O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The summer day is closed - the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train…

— William C. Bryant

If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

— Christopher McDougall

O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white, So full of gladness and so full of pain! Forever…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in…

— Theodore Roethke

The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air…

— Celia Thaxter

Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

— Harold E. Varmus

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one…

— Lewis Carroll

The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.

— Anais Nin

The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes…

— Bear Bryant

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand.

— Bar Refaeli

“In childhood, you long to grow up fast because older people are more powerful, young men more powerful. A child just longs to grow…

— Osho

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

— Tove Ditlevsen