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Summer Days- 42 Quotes & Sayings

Summer is a busy time in the garden. From the humming bees to the garden bursting into life so quickly you can almost see it happening. We wanted to gather together a few of our favorite sayings and quotes from this time to inspire us all into getting outside.

“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.” —K.D. Lang
Benjamin Alire Saenz “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me.”
Jack McBrayer “I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.”
"It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer." —Anna Godbersen, Bright Young Things
“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.” —Anna Godbersen, Bright Young Things
Unknown "Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me."
Unknown “Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me.”
Kellie Elmore “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me." —Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” —Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Ralph Waldo Emerson “Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.”
Helen Keller "Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows."
Helen Keller “Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." —F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Jenny Han “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
“Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.” —Hal Borland
"A life without love is like a year without summer." —Swedish Proverb
“A life without love is like a year without summer.” —Swedish Proverb
Marcus Tullius Cicero "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
Marcus Tullius Cicero “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” —George R.R. Martin
Dough Greene “I am more myself in a garden than anywhere else on earth.”
Van Morrison "Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly."
Van Morrison “Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.”
Wallace Stevens "The summer night is like a perfection of thought."
Wallace Stevens “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
Jenny Uglow “We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us.”
The Beatles “But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.”
The Beatles “But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.”
John Mayer “‘Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
"I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this." —Susan Branch
“I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.” —Susan Branch
Charles Bowden “Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
Bryan Procter "Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne."
Bryan Procter “Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.”
Henry David Thoreau “One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
Evelyn Waugh “If it could only be like this always—always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.”
C. Day Lewis "Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon."
C. Day Lewis “Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”
William Carlos Williams "In summer, the song sings itself."
William Carlos Williams “In summer, the song sings itself.”
Maud Hart Lovelace "It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside."
Maud Hart Lovelace “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”

Funny Summer Days Quotes

Henry James "Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
Henry James “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Katie Lee "If summer had one defining scent, it'd definitely be the smell of barbecue."
Katie Lee “If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.”
Jeanette Walls “One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
Al Bernstein "Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June."
Al Bernstein “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.”
Sam Keen “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.” —Debasish Mridha
Walt Whitman "You are so much sunshine in every square inch."
Walt Whitman “You are so much sunshine in every square inch.”
“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” —Nora Ephron
"When all else fails, take a vacation." —Betty Williams
“When all else fails, take a vacation.” —Betty Williams
"The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it." —Katie Lee
“The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it.” —Katie Lee
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” —L.M. Montgomery
Katie Daisy “She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water.”

What Next

If you like seasonal quotes and saying we have a collection of Spring adages. Designed to lift your mood and heart. We also love to celebrate all that Winter has to offer! Plus the joys that our garden has to offer.

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