Summer Quotes

"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."

John Keats

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

John Steinbeck

"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."

Yoko Ono

"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair..."

Susan Polis Schutz

"A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter."

Patricia Briggs

"The summer temperature outside was 45 degrees, so I turned 45 degrees and went right back inside. It was so cold outside because that’s where all her love for me was."

Jarod Kintz

"Coffee can’t melt in the summer heat, and that’s what I like about liquid soap. Wake and Clean is my new product that combines both into one exciting new drink."

Jarod Kintz

"There are only four times a year I love you: summer, fall, winter, and spring. I'll love you until the sun stops shining, until the clouds dissipate, when Mount Everest no longer has snow, and the flowers stop blooming.-Jarod Kintz and Karen Quan"

Jarod Kintz

"I remember being surrounded by the heaven-sent scent of July pine in the Rockies, as you and I laughed and danced like the snow would never come. Now, as the snow covers everything, just like I in these sheets, I close my eyes, preparing myself to see you again, my summer queen.-Jarod Kintz and Tanzy Sayadi"

Jarod Kintz

"I fall in love with you four times a year: winter, spring, summer, and fall. The leaves may change, but how I feel about you does not."

Jarod Kintz

"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me."

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

"One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did."

Daniel Amory

"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

"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

"[her class president campaign speech] Well, I never thought I would make it here today. I would make a great class president because I promise to put two new pop machines in the cafeteria, and I'm also gonna get a glitter Bonne Bell dispenser for all the girls' bathrooms. Oh, and we're gonna get new cheerleading uniforms. Anyway, I think I'd be a great class president. So, who wants to eat chiminichangas next year? Not me. See, with me it will be summer all year long. Vote for Summer."

Napoleon Dynamite

"Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen."

Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

"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."

Debasish Mridha

"Ô, Wanderess, WanderessWhen did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?"

Roman Payne

"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?"

Joe L. Wheeler

"some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems."

Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

"Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing of loss. Ours was a world of eternal spring, until the summer came."

Roman Payne, Hope and Despair

"Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion,let me relive my Love’s memory,to remember her body, so brave and so free,and the sound of my Dreameress singing to me,and the scent of my Dreameress sleeping by me,Ô, sing, sweet Muse, my soliloquy!"

Roman Payne

"Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth."

Roman Payne

"There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm"

André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

"Dad" I pleaded, "this is so [cuss word you never, ever say in front of your mother] ridiculous."

Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer

"I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.”“How would you introduce her?” I asked.“I’m just going to say her name,” he said."

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."

Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

"This is so funny,” said Ellen, noticing the seating arrangement. “Isn’t this funny? Tom, come sit next to Robin. Griffin, sit next to Laura.” I stood up and sat next to Robin while Griffin brought his chair over to Laura. “That’s better,” said Ellen. “Isn’t that better?"

Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

"Summer is a gentleman: slowly warming the earth at length before undressing her in the fall."

Curtis Tyrone Jones

"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."

Thabo Jijana, Failing Maths and My Other Crimes

"At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon."

Edgar Allan Poe

"In summer, we grow younger and stay young forever."

Debasish Mridha

"In summer, a soothing warm breeze on a beach is the most soothing music for the soul."

Debasish Mridha

"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."

Joyce Thomas, Skins: Poems

"In summer the empire of insects spreads."

Adam Zagajewski

"Thinking these things made space and time around her, the way saying 'only June' had when she was a child hoarding summer."

Zibby Oneal, In Summer Light

"The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day."

Henry David Thoreau

"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."

Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures

"As the season changes, we learn to adapt."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

"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!"

Avijeet Das

"My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever."

George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

"There are people in my life who count more than playing soccer in Serie A"

Mirella Muffarotto, Soccer Sweetheart

"When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person."

Aimee Friedman, Sea Change

"There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true."

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

"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."

Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret

"I'd love to wake up to complete silence, white sheets, and the smell of crisp air and roses."

Maria Elena, Eternal Youth

"It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer."

Anna Godbersen, Bright Young Things

"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."

Chris Cleave, Little Bee

"No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners."

Michelle Franklin

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