quotations about summer
Summer's morning wakes with a ring of birds, and everything is as distinctly cut as if it stood in heaven and not on earth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Oh, this summer
Your shoulders look good to me
and that horizon is heavy, it holds back the clouds
we've got a clear path down to the sea
we split the city at dark when the roads are clear
we'll hit the lobster shack and the store
my parade of hips and a tape full of hiss
and the sleeping bag on the floor
SUPERCHUNK
"This Summer"
Every shady grove in summer is to a man a holy temple, where his God moves nearer to him; every green sod an altar, where he kneels before the Lofty One.
LUDWIG HEINRICH CHRISTOPH HOLTY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Here is the ghost
Of a summer that lived for us,
Here is a promise
Of summer to be.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
Rhymes and Rhythms
A summer romance is something special, because it blazes like a comet across the sky and then fades out. The thing that makes it special--that makes everything move so fast--is that a summer romance is doomed to end.
JOHN VORNHOLT
Coyote Moon
Summer is rolling across our paths with all its pleasures, like a cinnamon roll unrolling across your plate leaving a trail of gooey goodness to gather on your fingers and lap up until every drop of sunshine and sugary satisfaction is enjoyed. Oh, it's going to be hot and marvelous, but there are decisions to be made ... like what to drink to quench that summer thirst.
TRINA MACHACEK
"Is This You? Drinking in Summer", Nevada Appeal, July 7, 2017
Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. For those few months, you're not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don't have the rest of the year. You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. Summer just opens the door and lets you out.
DEB CALETTI
Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
We got sweaty sheets and an ocean view
and it feels like a time machine
well you can't forget what you never knew
so come erase this summer with me
SUPERCHUNK
"This Summer"
If you've forgotten what I'm naming
You're gonna long to reclaim it one day
Because that summer feeling is gonna haunt you one day in your life
And if you wait until your older
A sad resentment will smolder one day
And then that summer feeling is gonna haunt you
And that summer feeling's gonna taunt you
And then that summer feeling is gonna hurt you one day in your life
JONATHAN RICHMAN
"That Summer Feeling"
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Game of Thrones
What many people don't realize is that summer is the perfect time to add exercise into their lives. Longer daylight hours, less rigid work schedules and fewer child care demands mean you have time to establish an exercise routine that fits your work-life balance and can keep you toned not only during the summer, but also throughout the year.
NEMIAH RUTLEDGE
"Summer is the season to kickstart your exercise routine", Ponte Vedra Recorder, July 5, 2017
I have a fancy that the sun
Regenerates what he looks upon,
And love to loiter in his rays
Thro' the warm length of summer days.
BESSIE RAYNER BELLOC
Summer Sketches and Other Poems
The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul,
Comes back with more than the first loveliness--
The all I've lost, the more I never found
Haunting her beauty, while for me she weaves
Of color, odor, sound, her perfect days.
MARY CLEMMER AMES
"Presence"
Perhaps there is no time in a summer's day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to triumph over the freshness of the morning--when there is just a lingering hint of early coolness to keep off languor under the delicious influence of warmth.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
You thought it was a falling leaf we heard:
I knew it was the Summer's gypsy feet.
KARLE WILSON BAKER
"Rondel for September", Blue Smoke
Let me go on like I
Blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hands, I know you're the one
VIOLENT FEMMES
"Blister in the Sun"
That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Well I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm a-gonna raise a holler
About a-workin' all summer just to try an' earn a dollar
Everytime I call my baby, to try to get a date
My boss says, "No dice, son, you gotta work late"
Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do
Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
EDDIE COCHRAN
"Summertime Blues"
In winter I get up at night,
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
In Winter I get up at Night
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
The Great Gatsby