Summer Quotes

2247 quotes by 1522 authors

In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall... — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it. — Stan Barstow
Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an… — Eva Ibbotson
August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its… — Jonathan Safran Foer
How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few… — Jonathan Lethem
Rejoice as summer should...chase away sorrows by living. — Melissa Marr
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth. — Yukio Mishima
Summer has set in with its usual severity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a… — Violette Leduc
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn. — Matsuo Basho
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the… — Doris Lessing
Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. — Billy Graham
All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. — Dante Alighieri
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass. — Ben Hecht
In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors. — Yosa Buson
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by. As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear… — William C. Bryant
For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go. — George Washington Cable

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