These Summer Quotes Call for Some Serious Sunshine
Those days leading up to summer can feel like they take forever. But it's well worth the wait for those annual beach trips, extra-fun pool parties, and days filled with summer fruits (and cocktails). Oh, and don't get the Drummond family started on Ladd's epic 4th of July party. Yeah, they're probably looking forward to summer, too! It's a season of fun and happiness, so it deserves to be talked about. Which is why the following list of summer quotes are a great read.
The quotes you'll find here will make it that much easier to put your love for summertime into words. These book excerpts, movie quotes, and wise sayings work beautifully as summer Instagram captions. In fact, there are tons of beach quotes and quotes about nature that are perfect for anyone who plans to spend the summer camping, boating, or simply dining al fresco with family and friends. Just take John Mayer's words for example, "A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about." There are even some charming but funny quotes included, like this one from James Dent: “A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.” 😂 Read through these as you get ready for the season!
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Matshona Dhliwayo
“Winter is copper, autumn is bronze, spring is silver, and summer is gold.”
Brian Wilson
“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”
Jimmy Buffett
“If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.”
Kobayashi Issa
“Summer night – even the stars are whispering to each other.”
Gooseberry Patch
“Celebrate summer, sundrenched days and starlit nights.”
Rascal Flatts
“Holler if you’re ready for some summer nights.”
Junot Diaz
“I felt like summer had taken me over.”
Bern Williams
“If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.”
Zooey Deschanel
“Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.”
Michele Elder
“Palm trees, ocean breeze, salty air, sun-kissed hair. That endless summer, take me there.”
The Beatles
“But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.”
Paul Dini
“Our one wish is that the summer never ends! In the summer, I will get a golden tan.”
Everett Dirksen
“When I feel the heat, I see the light.”
Russell Baker
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
Gayland Anderson
“Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation.”
Lilly Pulitzer
“It’s always summer somewhere.”
Vanna Bonta
“It was a perfect summer night. So good, it was true.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.”
Sally Ride
“The stars don’t look bigger, but they do look brighter in summer nights.”
Kellie Elmore
“It’s summer and time for wandering…”
Bryan Procter
“Oh the summer night, has a smile of light, and sits on a sapphire throne.”
Justin Timberlake
“Cause I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good song in my feet.”
Jerry Paul Keller
“Now let the sun shine bright on my happy summer home.”
James Dent
“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.”
Debasish Mridha
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.”
Helen Keller
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows."
Wallace Stevens
"The summer night is like a perfection of thought."
Danielle Steel
"I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days."
William Shakespeare
"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."
Maud Hart Lovelace
"It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside."
Betty Williams
"When all else fails, take a vacation."
Robert Orben
"A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in."
K.D. Lang
"Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you, my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling."
Wilma Rudolph
"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble is too difficult to overcome."
Gary Shteyngart
"We know summer is the height of being alive."
Margaret Atwood
"In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school."
Robert Bridges
"I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds."
Henry James
"Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
Nat King Cole
"Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer."
John Steinbeck
"In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different."
L.M. Montgomery
"All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer... one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends, and delightful doing, come as near perfection as anything can come in this world."
Taylor Swift
"When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill."
Oprah Winfrey
"Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in sunshine."
Jenny Han
"Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August."
Emily Dickinson
"To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie—true poems flee."
Katie Lee
"If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue."
Audrey Hepburn
"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."
Susan Branch
"I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do what we can, summer will have its flies."
Kellie Elmore
"Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops."
Katie Lee
"The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it."
Regina Brett
"Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds."
John Steinbeck
"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?"
Al Bernstein
"Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June."
John Lubbock
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."
Langston Hughes
"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."
Walt Whitman
"You are so much sunshine in every square inch."
Jeannette Walls
"One benefit of suummer was that each day we had more light to read by."
Evelyn Waugh
"If it could only be like this always—always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe."
Kenny Chesney
"It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine...It’s summertime!"
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