Quotes about summer
Michelle Franklin - and the worl
I am sure I have summer depression the heat makes me instantly regret being alive.
Tara Estacaan -
SUMMER REVERIEThe sun’s sultry glow make me swift footedto explore the sealet me weave my dreamsin fair days ofsummer.
Michelle Franklin -
I believe someone made a grievous mistake when summer was created no novitiate or god in their right mind would make a season akin to hell on purpose. Someone should be fired.
Michelle Franklin - and the worl
Someone made a grievous mistake when summer was created no novitiate or god in their right mind would make a season akin to hell on purpose. Someone should be fired.
Andrew Holleran - Dancer from the Dance
Witty people came out in autumn beauties in July.
Israelmore Ayivor -
The Steadfast Love of the Lord is not Seasonal His Mercies do not have winter or summer days... They are new every now and then.
Andy Serkis -
I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.
Debasish Mridha -
Summer is for surrendering winter is for wondering.
Henry James -
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Benny Bellamacina - Philosophical Uplifting Quotes volume 2
The English summer is never far away it's just above the clouds.
Aleqa Hammond -
The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.
Richard Blackmore -
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
Vanessa Redgrave -
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
Yoko Ono -
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley: In Search of America
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics
One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
John Keats - Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
André Aciman - Call Me by Your Name
There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm
Jennifer Echols - Endless Summer
Dad" I pleaded, "this is so [cuss word you never, ever say in front of your mother] ridiculous.
Daniel Amory - Minor Snobs
I’ve officially turned into a loser,” she whispered cynically. “I’m looking forward to going home and having cereal for dinner and walking Mitchell and studying a little and then going to sleep. I’ve had my ‘going out and having fun’ quota for the year, I guess, and it’s June.
Chloe Rattray - Sacré Noir
A week feels like a year when you’re seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.
John Lubbock - The Use Of Life
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
Debasish Mridha -
In the summer, we write life’s summary with the slow waves of love flowing over the sandy beach. The slow breeze and the warm sun write our memories.
Daniel Amory - Minor Snobs
Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money?” asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them. “Why is it an either or question?” the man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought.
Daniel Amory - Minor Snobs
Don’t you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough about the world?” asked Connor irrelevantly.
Daniel Amory - Minor Snobs
Really, nobody was there?” I asked.“Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.
Daniel Amory - Minor Snobs
Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?” asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air. My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, “Disgusting cardboard it is!
Daniel Amory - Minor Snobs
You know, sometimes I think this is just not it,” he said, his glasses flashing from the early night’s light. He turned toward me in a thoughtful pause.“You know what I mean, Tom?” he asked. “It’s just not.
Sanober Khan - Turquoise Silence
some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems.
Joe L. Wheeler -
There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?
Susan Polis Schutz -
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...
Willa Cather - The Song of the Lark
He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer.
Shannon L. Alder -
I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.
Charlotte Eriksson -
I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don’t know quite yet but I can’t wait to, and that is the start of everything.
D. Smith Kaich Jones -
It looks like fallen petals, and it looks like rain. It looks like the sounds the birds make at dawn. It looks like the aisle of grocery stores when a song I love suddenly begins to play overhead, and I cannot help but dance a little dance. It looks like a sigh, a kiss, an unmade bed. It looks like Cheerios in a white bowl with a bit of silence on the side. It looks like a plain vanilla cupcake in white paper, a dance with the wind, pink toenails, warm socks. It looks like a fire against the col
Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man
It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession.
Patrick Carman - The Tenth City
In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny leaves dancing on a summer morning.
Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
SUN, MOON, AND STARRY SKYEarly summer evenings, when the first stars come out, the warm glow of sunset still stains the rim of the western sky.Sometimes, the moon is also visible, a pale white slice, while the sun tarries.Just think -- all the celestial lights are present at the same time!These are moments of wonder -- see them and remember.
Lea Malot -
September was a thirty-days long goodbye to summer, to the season that left everybody both happy and weary of the warm, humid weather and the exhausting but thrilling adventures. It didn't feel like fresh air either, it made me suffocate. It was like the days would be dragging some kind of sickness, one that we knew wouldn't last, but made us uncomfortable anyway. The atmosphere felt dusty and stifling.
Ann Brashares - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
We're the Septembers now. The real ones. We are everything to one another. We don't need to say so; it's just true. Sometimes it seems like we're so close we form one single complete person rather than four separate ones. We settle into types- Bridget the athlete, Lena the beauty, Tibby the rebel, and me, Carmen, the...what? The one with the bad temper. But the one who cares the most. The one who cares that we stick together.
Sanober Khan - a tempest
our feet are grape-squashed in memoriesour skins are still flushedfrom the touch of summer’s lips.
Laura Smith -
Kayla jumped down off of the monkey bars. I thought she was going to apologize. Instead, she pointed at Becky and laughed as hard as she could.My blood boiled. I glared at her so hard that I thought that lasers would shoot out of my eyes and burn a hole through her. Without thinking, I stood up, walked over to Kayla, and slapped her across the face as hard as I could. I had never hit anyone who wasn’t my brother and sister, and I had never hit them as hard as I hit her. My hand stung. I grabbed
Laura Smith -
The next morning, I woke up to hear Becky moaning and rustling around in her bed covers.“I’m so itchy!” she cried.“So scratch!” I said, groggily, but suddenly, I felt itchy too. So, I started scratching my legs. They felt better until I stopped scratching. Then, it started to burn. I threw back the covers and saw that my legs were covered in red bumps.“My legs!” I yelled.Becky looked over at me. Then, she pulled back her covers. Her legs were even worse. She gasped.“Mom!” I cried.Mom came in. Sh
Laura Smith -
Green light,” she called, and I watched Becky run ahead until she was just a few inches from Michelle. Kayla was right next to her. Just as she reached out to tag Michelle, Kayla pushed into Becky’s back hard, and Becky flew forward.I gasped. Michelle turned around as Kayla tagged her arm. Becky fell at Michelle’s feet. She wrapped her arms around Michelle’s legs to catch herself. Michelle fell forward onto her knees, and Becky bumped her mouth against Michelle’s shoe.“Time!” I called, stopping
E.B. White - Charlotte's Web
The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change.
Walter de la Mare - Peacock Pie
A poor old Widow in her weedsSowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;Not too shallow, and not too deep,And down came April -- drip -- drip -- drip.Up shone May, like gold, and soonGreen as an arbour grew leafy June.And now all summer she sits and sewsWhere willow herb, comfrey, bugloss blows,Teasle and pansy, meadowsweet,Campion, toadflax, and rough hawksbit;Brown bee orchis, and Peals of Bells;Clover, burnet, and thyme she smells;Like Oberon's meadows her garden isDrowsy from dawn to dusk with
George R.R. Martin - A Feast for Crows
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
Avijeet Das -
Sylvia Plath and I met a long time ago. A really long time ago. Was it a summer day? No! It was a wintry November morning!
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
As the season changes, we learn to adapt.
Lisa Schroeder - You Haunt Me
Come with me,' Mom says.To the library. Books and summertimego together.
Polly Horvath - My One Hundred Adventures
The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.
Michelle Franklin -
Another atrocity of summer is soccer. When the Euro Cup is on, it brings out the worst in people. It turns them into ravaging beasts who complain when a team they like, which they have done nothing to deserve, slips from grace and loses the match.An old man sitting beside me at the cafe was watching the men watch the soccer rather than watch the soccer himself. He found their reactions more entertaining than the game."All this stuff and nonsense over men kicking a ball," he groused. "And they do
Aimee Friedman - Sea Change
When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.
Anna Godbersen - Bright Young Things
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.
Daniel Amory - Minor Snobs
I remember when I was twenty-five,” he said. “No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking for a doctor. You don’t want the new one that just graduated. You don’t want the very old one, the one shaking, the one twenty years past his prime. You want the seasoned one who has done it so many times he can do it in his sleep though. Same thing with attorneys.
Daniel Amory - Minor Snobs
There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.
Hazel Gaynor - The Cottingley Secret
With my arms wrapped around Rosebud, I dreamed of heather-topped hills and sleepy valleys and a pretty woodland stream where dragonflies danced across the water as I sat down among the ferns and the meadowsweet, waiting for the summer to find me.
Chris Cleave - Little Bee
on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.
Maria Elena - Eternal Youth
I'd love to wake up to complete silence, white sheets, and the smell of crisp air and roses.
Michelle Franklin - and the worl
It is 32c today, and the only thing keeping me from hanging myself is the small sense of relief Iglean from attaching my body to the vents of my delicious cooling piece. It is a stunning unit,exquisite in all its forms, exceptional in its application, and effective in all its functions. I wouldmarry it, if only I knew it would not die on me sometime within the next five years. Appliances,like obedient children or silent extroverts, cannot last forever, and while my unbidden affectionkept my othe
Michelle Franklin - and the worl
Why are you wailing away? What is the matter with you?”“I was playing and—“ and her lip quivered as she spoke, “—and it was cloudy, and then—“ a sniff, “—and then, as I was playing, the sun came out.”I gave her a flat look. “You’re crying because the sun came out?”“Yes,” she moped, wiping the tears from her eyes, “the sun came out, and now—“ she heaved, “—and now, it’s hot! I don’t like it when it’s hot. Being hot is dumb!”I immediately absolved her of all previous sins. I slumped over the sill
Michelle Franklin -
No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.
Jeannette Walls - The Glass Castle
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
Patricia Briggs - Dragon Blood
A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
Holly Peterson - It Happens in the Hamptons
They radiated that orgasm-free lifestyle so unique and universal among Seabrook women.
H.S. Crow -
A violinist fiddled.With strings resined for winter.Summer's light splintered.
Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.
Dan Simmons - Drood
The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.
Tove Jansson - The Summer Book
Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken carp
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf.
Barbara Delinsky - Sweet Salt Air
There, on the far side of of the Atlantic, would be Maine, but despite the shared ocean, her island and this one were worlds apart. Where Inishmaan was gray and brown, its fragile man-made soil supporting only the hardiest of low-growing plants, the fertile Quinnipeague invited tall pines in droves, not to mention vegetables, flowers, and improbable, irrepressible herbs. Lifting her head, eyes closed now, she breathed in the damp Irish air and the bit of wood smoke that drifted on the cold ocean
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
All seasons are spectacular.
Alfred Austin -
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Giovanna Fletcher - Christmas With Billy and Me
I love the arrival of a new season — each one bringing with it its own emotion: spring is full of hope; summer is freedom; autumn is a colourful release, and winter brings an enchanting peace. It's hard to pick which one I enjoy the most — each time the new one arrives, I remember its beauty and forget the previous one whose qualities have started to dim.
Irwin Shaw - The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
When I think of New York City, I think of all the girls, the Jewish girls, the Italian girls, the Irish, Polack, Chinese, German, Negro, Spanish, Russian girls, all on parade in the city. I don't know whether it's something special with me or whether every man in the city walks around with the same feeling inside him, but I feel as though I'm at a picnic in this city. I like to sit near the women in the theaters, the famous beauties who've taken six hours to get ready and look it. And the young
Irwin Shaw - The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
I'm older now, I'm a man getting near middle age, putting on a little fat and I still love to walk along Fifth Avenue at three o'clock on the east side of the street between Fiftieth and Fifty-seventh streets, they're all out then, making believe they're shopping, in their furs and their crazy hats, everything all concentrated from all over the world into eight blocks, the best furs, the best clothes, the handsomest women, out to spend money and feeling good about it, looking coldly at you, maki
Anna Akhmatova - The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer,And again there was silence, and again the ghost of summer.
Sanober Khan - a tempest
I realizedJune had never beenjust a monthmusic...never just a trembleon my lipswarmth was nevermerely a blanket.
Robert Fanney -
A song she heardOf cold that gathersLike winter's tongueAmong the shadowsIt rose like blacknessIn the skyThat on volcano'sVomit riseA Stone of ruinFrom burn to chillLike black moonriseHer voice fell still...
Kate Willis - The Treasure Hunt
As they ran to the barn and began the careful climb up the steep ladder, Lily realized she had accidentally put on snow boots in her hurry. When they reached the top, the quiet hush of the still hayloft gave them that whisper-in-the-library feeling.
Adriana Trigiani - Rococo
As we gather around the rough-hewn farm table made by my grandfather, I am reminded that my family has come together for generations in this same way. Summers were always our favorite times; we would eat outdoors under the shade of a tree - hand-rolled pasta with a sauce of fresh tomatoes and basil from the garden, cheese from my Aunt Carmella, olive oil sent by our cousin in Santa Margherita, and wine from our own jugs. After having our fill of food and laughter, we'd pluck ripe figs right off
Danabelle Gutierrez - & Until The Dreams Come
The first summer that we spent together,we did so many obscene things to each other, thatby the end of it, the trees blushed a shy shade of scarlet,leaves falling to the ground, scandalized by our acts.
Kevin Dellinger - Your Soul Mate
Behold my Love which traveled by Sudden Days. I wash away my withered cold Hands to a Warm Embrace of You, My Eternal Summer!
N.I. -
Maybe we can help. Where are you from? I've never seen you around here before. And, how did you get that cut? Where are you staying?” He shook his head and giggled. “Are you the police? You ask a lot of questions Phoenix.” “No. I just ... never mind.” I wanted to know more about him. The way those sparkly green eyes gazed at me. The way his dimples sunk deep into his cheeks, as he smiled and said my name with his deep voice.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.
Deb Caletti - Sweetheart
summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.
Katherine Catmull - Summer and Bird
A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children." "But they make no sense!" Summer protested "Ah, well," said Ben. "Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.
Algernon Charles Swinburne - Poems and Ballads Atalanta in Calydon
Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a glass that ran;Pleasure, with pain for leaven;Summer, with flowers that fell;Remembrance, fallen from heaven,And madness risen from hell;Strength without hands to smite;Love that endures for a breath;Night, the shadow of light,And Life, the shadow of death.
George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones
Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.
Jacob M. Appel - The Biology of Luck
Battery Park resonates with lust as the sun approaches its zenith. A primal impulse takes hold of the young couples strolling the gravel walkways, the newlyweds who have paused to admire DeModica’s bronze bull, the truant teens laid out on the cool grass. Maybe because all flesh tantalizes in the early summer, in the right light, or because, at this time of year, there is more flesh exposed, midriffs, cleavage, inner thighs, the park is suddenly transformed into a dynamo of panting and groping.
Alison Croggon - The Naming
At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.
Derek Keck -
233Life is for the living and the dead, she said in a smile,And flashed me a bit of pale thigh in the summer time
Derek Keck - Of Butterflies and Ghosts
Life is for the living and the dead, she said in a smile,And flashed me a bit of pale thigh in the summer time
Pablo Neruda - 100 Love Sonnets
Green was the silence, wet was the light,the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
Joyce Thomas - Skins: Poems
Sun-struck, stuck in mid tropic strut, it sometimes standsas if considering how to cool avian plastic,dive into the mown lagoon of lawn;how take flight on dayglow flap-doodle wings, no matterif it is ball-bald going nowhere fast.
Adam Zagajewski -
In summer the empire of insects spreads.
Debasish Mridha -
In summer, we grow younger and stay young forever.
Edgar Allan Poe -
At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.
Thabo Jijana - Failing Maths and My Other Crimes
now,never mindthe boy who came out of that reading rooma new man,safe in the hope of what was to comein the summers of his life.