Quotations About Summer I

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.


The serene philosophy of the pink rose is steadying. Its fragrant, delicate petals
open fully and are ready to fall, without regret or disillusion, after only a day
in the sun. It is so every summer. One can almost hear their pink, fragrant
murmur as they settle down upon the grass:
'Summer, summer, it will always be summer.'
~ Rachel Peden


That beautiful season the Summer!
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light;
and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always
been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~ Henry James


What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment
of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind
one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
~ Gertrude Jekyll



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.
~ John Lubbock



Summer makes me drowsy,
Autumn makes me sing,
Winter’s pretty lousy,
but I hate Spring.
~ Dorothy Parker



Summer makes a silence after spring.
~ Vita Sackville-West


Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year.
It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.
~ Billy Graham


A life without love is like a year without summer.
~ Swedish Proverb


T'is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from
your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
~ Edward Moore


Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. ~Erma Bombeck


Do what we can, summer will have its flies. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


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. ~John Lubbock


No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.
~James Russell Lowell


Then followed that beautiful season... Summer....
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. ~Ada Louise Huxtable