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Quotes About Summer

Oaks are the true conservatives; They hold old leaves till summer gives A green exchange.
~ Roy Helton
Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum of the turning earth. The magical time of childhood stood still, and the pulse of the living earth pressed its mystery into my living blood.
~ Rudolfo Anaya
When the whistling-thrush released A deep sweet secret on the trembling air; Blackbird on the wing, bird of the forest shadows, Black rose in the long ago summer, This was your song: It isn't time that's passing by, It is you and I.
~ Ruskin Bond
All that happens is as habitual and familiar as roses in spring and fruit in the summer. True too of disease, death, defamation, and conspiracy—and all that delights or gives pain to fools.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The cicadas pierce the air with their searing one-note calls; dust eddies across the roads; from the weedy patches at the verges, grasshoppers whir. The leaves of the maples hang from their branches like limp gloves; on the sidewalk my shadow crackles.
~ Margaret Atwood
All that time, blowing away in the summer breeze. It was daisies for love though, and we did that too
~ Margaret Atwood
Life was going past her, down a hot shady summer road, life with gray uniforms and jingling spurs and flowered organdie dresses and banjos playing.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I think it's time you got a summer love of your own until lover boy sees he need to ditch Gina.
~ Dana Burkey, Just Pretending
What if just you and I hung out, like last summer?" Nick sat up and began twirling a lock of my wet hair around his finger. "Josh never needs to know.
~ Dana Burkey, Just Pretending
That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!
~ Lemmy Kilmister
Wander a whole summer if you can. Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
~ John Muir
There ain't no time to be wasted, the world is going under... Nowadays, can't tell Fall from Spring, and Winter from Summer.
~ Big K.R.I.T.
American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.
~ Tom Holt
After 4 years on NYPD Blue it has been nice to have the summer off and spend time with family and friends. There are a few projects I am interested in and plan to be working this fall.
~ Mark-Paul Gosselaar
These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.
~ Van Morrison
A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.
~ William F. Longgood
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
~ Charles Dickens
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.
~ Sylvia Plath
I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.
~ Lewis Black
For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.
~ Patrick Modiano
Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.
~ Jacques Barzun
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.
~ Jerry Saltz
Don't fear the night time, Because the monsters know that you're divine. And don't fear the sunshine, Because everything is better in the summer time...
~ Michael Franti
Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer
~ Jenny Han