Summer has set in with its usual severity.

What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive.

— Takayuki Ikkaku

Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring.

— Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.

— William Joyce

Summer should get a speeding ticket.

— Anonymous

“I never understood those commercials with the parents celebrating the end of summer. Now I understand that around mid-August, all the summer camps are…

— Jim Gaffigan

Summer is almost over and I couldn't be happier.

— Anonymous

“The journey of a thousands suns begins today. Some may question whether the journey is worth the sacrifice and danger. To them I say…

— David Marusek

I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to…

— Joe Biden

When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.

— Sarah Helen Whitman

To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly…

— Ann Patchett

the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them.…

— Nan Fairbrother

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

— Henry David Thoreau

There's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 1 and 2, and Ratatouille. It's super surreal. We've been working on this for eight years nonstop.…

— Evan Goldberg

“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.”

— Paul Monette

Every Summer: 'Let's make this the best one yet!' ...End of Summer: 'Wow, this summer sucked!'

— Anonymous