quotations about summer
It is beautiful, all, in its going,
This wonderful, sweet summer time;
The leaflets glide down through the sunshine,
As poets thoughts glide into rhyme.
Sweet Summer looks over her shoulder,
And whispers once more her farewells--
I wonder if Peace will come with her
When her feet are again on the hills.
MARY T. LATHRAP
"The Parting with Summer"
Summer is the sunshine of life.
J. ISLA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Summer is unclothed, and bears a wheaten garland.
OVID
attributed, Day's Collacon
Other seasons in this part of the world come and go, sometimes too soon. Summer overstays his welcome. You drop subtle hints. "My, just look at the time!" you say. Summer just sits there with a blank expression on his sunny face. (Yes, Summer is male. We know this by his clueless insensitivity). In another month, kids will be going back to school for the, uh, "fall." Do you think Summer gets the hint? Of course not. Oh, he might get up and stretch his legs a bit along about September and might take a step or two toward the door. But it's all a ruse and a cruel one at that.
ANONYMOUS
"Summer is here: What are we going to do about it?", The Commercial Dispatch, July 6, 2017
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet XVIII
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
letter to Charles Lamb, May 1826
Help me, help me, help me sail away
Well give me two good reasons why I oughta stay
'Cause I love to live so pleasantly
Live this life of luxury
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
In a summertime
THE KINKS
"Sunny Afternoon"
Summer is the year's early manhood.
PLANCHE
attributed, Day's Collacon
The optimum thing to wear on your feet in summer is, of course, nothing. Going barefoot gives you a sense of time and place, of independence, of carefreeness. Imagine if everyone went everywhere sans footwear all summer long.
JIM SHEA
"Lose the shoes: Summer is made for barefeet", CT Post, July 7, 2017
If it's summer and you're unfortunate enough to be outdoors -- and it's worth asking that if the outdoors is so great, why did we invent the indoors? -- you are already hot and sweaty. What could make that worse? Bugs! Millions and millions of bugs, many of which are eager to bite you or sit on the food that you've been conned into eating outdoors. Now you're hot and sweaty and itchy and your hamburger has been trod on by an insect with questionable hygiene. And there's some knucklehead at the table next to you grinning and sweating and swatting flies and saying, "Oh, man, don't you just love summer!"
REX HUPPKE
"The Unbearable Dreadfulness of Summer", Chicago Tribune, July 5, 2017
Let India boast her fan-leaf'd palm,
And Lebanon her cedar trees,
Give me a summer Sunday's calm,
And garden fill'd with flowers like these.
BESSIE RAYNER BELLOC
Summer Sketches and Other Poems
The kindness of summer produceth in perfection the bounties of harvest.
ROBERT DODSLEY
The Economy of Human Life
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"
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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
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
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
JEANNETTE WALLS
The Glass Castle
Well shut them books and throw em away
Say goodbye to dull school days
So come on and change your ways
It's summertime...
THE JAMIES
"Summertime, Summertime"
Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
DODIE SMITH
I Capture the Castle
I cloud nine when I want to
Out of school, yeah
County fair in the country sun
And everything, it's true, ooh, yeah
Hot fun in the summertime
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
"Hot Fun in the Summertime"