Top summer Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of summer quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Edna St. Vincent Millay
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Collection: Summer
Image of Igor Sikorsky
It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality in the United States.
- Igor Sikorsky
Collection: Summer
Image of Shane Jones
They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog burned off the river in summer. My mother rubbed the kites on my hands and arms and told me to think of my lungs as balloons. I just want to feel safe, I said.
- Shane Jones
Collection: Summer
Image of Lin Yutang
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.
- Lin Yutang
Collection: Summer
Image of Francis Thompson
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.
- Francis Thompson
Collection: Summer
Image of Maud Hart Lovelace
It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.
- Maud Hart Lovelace
Collection: Summer
Image of Patrick Carman
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.
- Patrick Carman
Collection: Summer
Image of William Carlos Williams
In summer, the song sings itself.
- William Carlos Williams
Collection: Summer
Image of Paul Harding
He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the still perfume of high summer; it was the smell of cold, raw green.
- Paul Harding
Collection: Summer
Image of Samuel Rutherford
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
- Samuel Rutherford
Collection: Summer
Image of Stephen R. Lawhead
Tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your head; I will speak the flowers of the field into a cloak; I will speak the racing stream into a melody for your ears and the voices of a thousand larks to sing it; I will speak the softness of night for your bed and the warmth of summer for your coverlet; I will speak the brightness of flame to light your way and the luster of gold to shine in your smile; I will speak until the hardness in you melts away and your heart is free.
- Stephen R. Lawhead
Collection: Summer
Image of Katrina Kenison
One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just one geographic location where things feel safe and familiar. Home can be anyplace in which we create our own sense of rest and peace as we tend to the spaces in which we eat and sleep and play. It is a place that we create and re-create in every moment, at every stage of our lives, a place where the plain and common becomes cherished and the ordinary becomes sacred.
- Katrina Kenison
Collection: Summer
Image of Jane Roberts
What magicians we are, turning darkness into light, transforming invisible atoms into dazzling theater of the world, pulling objects, (people as well as rabbits) out of secret microscopic closets, turning winter into summer, making a palmful of moments disappear through time's trap door. We learned the methods so long ago that they're unconscious, and we've hypnotized ourselves into believing that we're the audience, so I wonder where we served our apprenticeship. Under what master magicians did we learn to form reality so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves the secret?
- Jane Roberts
Collection: Summer
Image of Charley Pride
I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.
- Charley Pride
Collection: Summer
Image of Dar Williams
The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field
- Dar Williams
Collection: Summer
Image of Enid Blyton
I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.' 'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.
- Enid Blyton
Collection: Summer
Image of Andrew Bogut
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 Australia every summer because it's so fast paced there and so stressful.
- Andrew Bogut
Collection: Summer
Image of Elizabeth Wein
Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow. A gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. She dipped her spoon in it and licked it.
- Elizabeth Wein
Collection: Summer
Image of Henry Beston
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.
- Henry Beston
Collection: Summer
Image of Mike Shinoda
global warming. every day i leave my house and think, "was it this hot last year?" the heat this summer here in LA and in most of the US has been unbearable. i can't remember another time when it was 105 degrees fahrenheit out here (40.5 celsius), and that's the kind of weather we've been having pretty much every day.
- Mike Shinoda
Collection: Summer
Image of Adam Zagajewski
In summer the empire of insects spreads.
- Adam Zagajewski
Collection: Summer
Image of Larry Bird
Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural. Whether it's a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.
- Larry Bird
Collection: Summer
Image of Galt Niederhoffer
There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.
- Galt Niederhoffer
Collection: Summer
Image of Derek Walcott
Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.
- Derek Walcott
Collection: Summer
Image of Teresa Medeiros
Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.
- Teresa Medeiros
Collection: Summer
Image of Sebastian Faulks
The end-of-summer winds make people restless.
- Sebastian Faulks
Collection: Summer
Image of Tecumseh
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.
- Tecumseh
Collection: Summer
Image of Tecumseh
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, 'Never! Never!'
- Tecumseh
Collection: Summer
Image of Jun Mochizuki
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a hot summer's day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts. The mad Queen said, "Off with his head! Off with his head! Off with his head!" Well... that's too bad... no more heads to cut.
- Jun Mochizuki
Collection: Summer
Image of Lucy Maud Montgomery
You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward Island in a summer twilight when the dew is falling and the old stars are peeping out and the sea keeps its mighty tryst with the little land it loves. You find your soul then. You realize that youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Collection: Summer
Image of Jeff Kinney
I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.
- Jeff Kinney
Collection: Summer
Image of Anna Godbersen
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared.
- Anna Godbersen
Collection: Summer
Image of Anna Godbersen
He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.
- Anna Godbersen
Collection: Summer
Image of Christian Siriano
I've been really into a light, bright playfulness that's been missing. I looked at these '60s and '70s photos of Jackie O. She went to Capri every summer, but she was always a little more playful, a little more colorful, than she was in 'normal' life. And it was exciting to see her a little bit "off duty." The colors are from awning stripe umbrellas, from a really clear ocean, and from ripe citrus.
- Christian Siriano
Collection: Summer
Image of Cole Porter
Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies. Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears, More and more do I realize: I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall. I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. I love Paris every moment, Every moment of the year. I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris? Because my love is near.
- Cole Porter
Collection: Summer
Image of Jean-Dominique Bauby
We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.
- Jean-Dominique Bauby
Collection: Summer
Image of David Abram
Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography, drenching rains in the winters, fog off-shore in the summers, salmon surging up the streams - all these together make up a particular state of mind, a place-specific intelligence shared by all the humans that dwell therein, but also by the coyotes yapping in those valleys, by the bobcats and the ferns and the spiders, by all beings who live and make their way in that zone. Each place its own psyche. Each sky its own blue.
- David Abram
Collection: Summer
Image of Ha Jin
Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
- Ha Jin
Collection: Summer
Image of Walter Moers
This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine can be a melody in a cut-glass goblet, but it can also be a cacophony in a dirty tumbler, or a rainy autumn night, or a funeral march that scorches your tongue.
- Walter Moers
Collection: Summer
Image of Walter Moers
Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.
- Walter Moers
Collection: Summer
Image of Isaac Mizrahi
I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.
- Isaac Mizrahi
Collection: Summer
Image of Charlotte Bronte
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.
- Charlotte Bronte
Collection: Summer
Image of Jessica Mitford
Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.
- Jessica Mitford
Collection: Summer
Image of Richard Russo
He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other.
- Richard Russo
Collection: Summer