Summer Quotes

2247 Summer quotes by 1522 unique authors

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied. — Joseph Wood Krutch
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let… — Jonathan Swift
Even with insects - some can sing, some can't. — Kobayashi Issa
When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower. — John A. Macdonald
The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer. — George R. R. Martin
Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it. — James Thomas Fields
O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O… — William Blake
Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays. — Robert Burns
Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So… — Ira Gershwin
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. — Charles Lamb
Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall… — Alexander Pope
Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance? — William Shakespeare
The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,… — Walter Scott
These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain… — William Shakespeare
....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of… — Charles Dickens
Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer. — Cardinal Richelieu
When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but… — Roy Blount, Jr.
This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that… — Celia Thaxter
A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if… — Jean Paul
I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves... — Vita Sackville-West
In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike… — Vanessa Mae
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.… — Ada Louise Huxtable
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist,… — Archibald Geikie

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