quotations about summer
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 will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Game of Thrones
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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"
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"
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"
Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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"
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
School is out and it's a sort of a buzz
A back then I didn't really know what it was
But now I see what have of this
The way that people respond to summer madness
The weather is hot and girls are dressing less
And checking out the fellas to tell 'em who's best
Riding around in your jeep or your benzos
Or in your Nissan stting on lorenzos
Back in Philly we be ou in the park
A place called the plateau is where everybody goes
Guys out hunting and girls doing likewise
Honking at the honey in front of you with the light eyes
She turn around to see what you beeping at
It's like the summers a natural afradesiac
And with a pen and pad I compose this rhyme
To hit you and get you equipped for the summer time
WILL SMITH
"Summertime", Homebase
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"
How beautiful is summer! Who does not, at this period, admire all nature teeming with life and replete with energy? At this time the richest wealth to earth is given, and the soul, as if in unison with the beneficence of its genial glow, offers up a prayer to the Source of all this beauty and splendor.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
We see the clouds of summer go and come,
And thirsty verdure praying them to give:
We cry, "O Nature, tell us why we live!"
She smiles with beauty, but her lips are dumb.
HENRY ABBEY
"While the Days Go By"