Summer Quotes

The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons w...

It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landsc...

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f...

Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, shar...

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

Winter is coming, warned the Stark words, and truly it had come to them with a vengeance. But it is ...

On days when it was too hot, they did not leave their room. The dazzling brilliance from outside pla...

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a ...

Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was slee...

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep i...

Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's ...

The whiff of ocean on the southern breeze and the smell of burning asphalt brought back memories of ...

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock...

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best ...

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite i...

The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having di...

The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of P...

The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This...

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled...

O summer and soft wind. Relieves the heart and makes living cheaper.

Battery Park resonates with lust as the sun approaches its zenith. A primal impulse takes hold of th...

We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.

My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family's had forever, and it'...

The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...

The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than ...

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration ...

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could...

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the ...

The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, ...

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their...

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I ro...

I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girlFrom summer she is made my lovely summer girlI'd love...

I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl,From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl,I’d l...

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hil...

One swallow alone does not make the summer.

Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hos...

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

Green was the silence, wet was the light,the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think al...

Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think al...

Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...seal...

The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Tim...

The sidewalks were haunted by dustghosts all night as the furnace wind summoned them up,swung them a...

No,” moaned Tom in despair. “School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things l...

And they left the mellow light of the dandelion wine and went upstairs to carry out the last few rit...

June dawns, July noons, August evenings over, finished, done, and gone forever with only the sense o...

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices...

Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons.

It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands,...

. . .and he has nevergiven up his conviction that if you just try all the doors one of them is bound...

Farewell, Timothy Riley’s Bar," Lane said softly. "Home of the nickel beer. Snooker emporium. Reposi...

When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds ...

So slip on your goggles and your reading trunks, for the sun is high. Let me leave you with one more...

There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Ya...

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

To me, summer has always been about potential. This was especially true when I was in high school. T...

If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feelin...

But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime af...

The ticking seconds pulled me toward the end. It was cold when he no longer held me. It got colder e...

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

I don't know how long I kept at it...I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quit...

These marvels were great and comfortable ones, but in the old England there was a greater still. The...

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering sk...

Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and...

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizz...

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

I propose a toast to mirth; be merry! Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indiges...

He sighed profoundly, and flung himself - there was a passion in his movements which deserves the wo...

[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, o...

Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night!Night of south winds! Night...

A poor old Widow in her weedsSowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;Not too shallow, and not too de...

He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, eno...

The cotton was open and spilling into the fields; the very air smelled of it. In field after field a...

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Aut...

Again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on th...

They say it'll be even hotter tomorrow. that's how we spend the summer. complaining about the heat.

DaffodowndillyShe wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown;She turned to the south win...

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

In the summer I wear shorts with a bright top and ankle boots or just sandals. I'll add a nice scarf...

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a...

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There...

Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as ...

And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer,And again there was silence, and again the ghos...

It was a beautiful summer afternoon, at that delicious period of the year when summer has just burst...

One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of hap...

On Saturday afternoons I used to go for a walk with my mother. From the dusk of the hallway, we step...

Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared...

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. It...

Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...

Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now ...