“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.”— John Lubbock, amazon.comTagged: Summer, Summertime
“All in all, it was a never to be forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as ne…”— L.M Montgomery, amazon.comTagged: Anne of Green Gables, Summer
“We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.”— Jean-Dominique Bauby, amazon.comTagged: Summertime, Summer
“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.”— Francis Thompson, amazon.comTagged: Summer, Summertime
“The morning heat had already soaked through the walls, rising up from the floor like a ghost of summers past.”— Erik Tomblin, amazon.comTagged: Summer, Erik Tomblin
“The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.comTagged: Harry Potter, Summer
“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 rumor of sadness and change.”— E. B. White, amazon.comTagged: Charlotte's Web, Summer
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of Au…”— Natalie Babbit, amazon.comTagged: Tuck Everlasting, Summer
“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”— Aimee Friedman, amazon.comTagged: Summer, Begin again
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”— Jenny Han, amazon.comTagged: Summer, June
“In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.”— Steven Millhauser, amazon.comTagged: Summer, Dusk
“New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.”— Peter Cameron, amazon.comTagged: Summer, Sunshine
“Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”— Roman Payne, goodreads.comTagged: Summer, Sunshine
“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.”— John Lubbock, amazon.comTagged: Summertime, Sunshine
“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”— Jeanette Walls, amazon.comTagged: Summertime, Sunshine
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”— Maud Hart Lovelace, amazon.comTagged: Summertime, June
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”— Charles Bowden, goodreads.comTagged: Carles Bowden, Summer
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Charles Dickens, Summer
“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.comTagged: June, Summer, Love
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”— Susan Polis Schutz, goodreads.comTagged: Summer, Joy
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”— Henry James, goodreads.comTagged: Henry James, Love, Summer
“I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl, From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl, I’d love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girl, But I’m never warm enough for my lovely summer girl, It’s summer when she smiles, I’m laughing like a child, It’s the summer of our lives; we’ll con…”— Maggie Stiefvater, amazon.comTagged: Maggie Stiefvater, Summer
“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, amazon.comTagged: Summer, Seasons
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.comTagged: The Great Gatsby, Novels, Summer
“Back in 1957 We had to dance a foot apart And they hawk-eyed us from the sidelines Holding their rulers without a heart And so with just a touch of our fingers I could make our circuitry explode All we ever wanted Was just to come in from the cold”— Joni Mitchell, Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“There's a wild, wild whisper Blowin' in the wind Callin' out my name like a long lost friend Oh I miss those days as the years go by Oh nothing's sweeter than summertime And American honey”— Lady Antebellum, azlyrics.comTagged: Summertime, Summer
“Summertime, and the livin' is easy Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good-lookin' So hush little baby, Don't you cry”— Ella Fitzgerald, azlyrics.comTagged: Summertime, Summer
“Over at the lake and down by the river You can feel it start to rise Wanna jump in my car, go wherever you are ‘Cause I need you by my side It’s gonna be a long, hot summer, we should be together With your feet up on the dashboard now Singing along with the radio, it’s such a beautiful sound And whe…”— Keith Urban, azlyrics.comTagged: Summer, Summertime
“I often think about that summer The sweat, the moonlight and the lace And I have rarely held another When I haven't seen her face And every time I pass a wheat field And watch it dancing with the wind Although I know it isn't real I just can't help but feel Her hungry arms again”— Garth Brooks, azlyrics.comTagged: Summer, Summertime
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”— Henry David Thoreau, quotelicious.comTagged: Summer, Summertime