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Quotes About Summer

The tear, down Childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry...
~ Walter Scott, Rokeby, 1813
Dark red cherries in a ripe Bowl of Summer
~ Terri Guillemets
One Swallow makes ('tis true) no Summer, Yet one Tongue may create a Rumour.
~ Thomas D'Urfey, c. 1690
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
~ Harry S. Truman
Dawn caught us on the northern brow, and in the gray light we dropped down through chaparral into redwood canyons deep and warm with the breath of passing summer
~ Jack London
So I leave flowers; spring flowers, then summer flowers. I gather the red and orange and yellow trumpet flowers, for a trumpet is a thing that makes a loud noise like a shout, and I tie their vines together and leave them to shout I love you in a row from Miranda's window-ledge.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Dad bought us food from every single stall on the pier – lemon pancakes and doughnuts oozing jam and salty chips and fluffy candyfloss and 99 ice creams, just as he promised.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me, and drove me into the church.
~ James Baldwin
in the summer of 1845 Edward Little was sixteen years old and restless in his blood.
~ James Carlos Blake
The vigor of glory, a glittering in the veins,      As things emerged and moved and were dissolved,      Either in distance, change or nothingness,      The visible transformations of summer night,      An argentine abstraction approaching form      And suddenly denying itself away.
~ James Gleick
I spent every summer as a child at my uncle's farm in Illinois so I know all about gathering eggs and how the hens will peck at you.
~ Ken Berry
Talk about songs that make me cry: Track 7 on the 'Phineas and Ferb' soundtrack, 'Summer (Where Do We Begin?).' When you get to the part about sitting with your brother underneath the shade of a big tree in the backyard, ohmygod. Turn on the waterworks.
~ Christopher Gorham
Birkenstocks are highly underrated. They are so comfortable.
~ Lana Condor
I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books.
~ Maria Semple
Basically i've done a few podcasts one is 'Prepare for the Unexpected' which is a guide to my life and how I deal with things and I've also done a 'Guide to Surving the Summer Festivals' too.
~ Paddy McGuinness
'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
~ Damon Galgut
Whenever I am with a group of kids, I always ask them, 'How many of you know about the summer reading program at your library and how many of you know it's free?' Spreading that sort of message comes very naturally to me.
~ Kate DiCamillo
I'll be the first to admit it: I love fluff. Whether it's watching 'America's Next Top Model' or listening to dance pop like Rihanna's 'Where Have You Been,' I like to keep it light and fun, especially during the spring and summer months.
~ Phoebe Robinson
Between the summer of 2015 and spring 2016, Austria became one of the European countries most affected by the migration and refugee crisis.
~ Sebastian Kurz
Most people think of January 1st as the start of a new year. To people who espouse to Catholicism and Christianity, they might correlate that with the birth of Christ. Us in football, the start of spring practice and the first day of summer training camp are what you look at as the New Year with fireworks going off, it's your birthday.
~ Jim Harbaugh
I have the most beautiful memories of 'New Gold Dream.' It was made in a time between spring and summer, and everything we tried worked. There were no arguments. We were in love with what we were doing, playing it, listening to it.
~ Jim Kerr
'Hold Me' was a nightmare! It was the middle of the desert in Palm Springs, in the height of summer. I don't know what possessed us to do that. But we sometimes do crazy things.
~ Christine McVie
I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside.
~ Freema Agyeman
When summer squash is freshly picked, all it needs is a little olive oil, salt, pepper, and maybe a hit of lemon juice.
~ Marcela Valladolid