Summer Quotes
2247 Summer quotes by 1522 unique authors
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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
— Thomas Hood
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I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However,…
— Lee Byung-hun
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She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of…
— Tom Perrotta
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On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First Family; descendent of…
— Justin Cronin
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People peep into boxes at moving stereoscopic prints, imagining they're in other worlds, and the crowd around a glassblower wonders whether icicles have formed in…
— Haruo Shirane
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There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and nowhere…
— Gus Grissom
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Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter…
— Louisa May Alcott
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And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it…
— Michael Frayn
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My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers…
— William Saroyan
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One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest…
— S. J. Perelman
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The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and…
— Anne Sexton
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Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.
— John Kessel
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[What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if he found no…
— Ayn Rand
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Write about winter in the summer.
— Annie Dillard
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The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day…
— China Mieville
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Dominance contests are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.
— L. David Mech
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Summer is a drag because even normal people become obsessed with their bodies. A bad bathing suit can humiliate you more tan anything else in…
— Conan O'Brien
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We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.
— Bat Masterson
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Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration…
— Stephen Leigh
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In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I am reminded of…
— Joe J. Christensen
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(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied…
— Lucretius
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It was hard telling those kids...that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss them. I won't…
— Christa McAuliffe
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It's definitely different in the States. Americans are much different people compared to us. We're much more laid back. I itch to get back to…
— Andrew Bogut
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For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had…
— Ann Brashares
Who Wrote These Summer Quotes
1,522 authors contributed a total of 2,247 Summer Quotes, led by these top contributors: