80 Summer Quotes to get you in the summer spirit (2024)

The weather is getting a little warmer, the days a bit longer, and spring will say farewell before you know it; summer is almost here. School Holidays, Beach vacations, Swimming Pool time, Ice Cream and Cold Drinks, there are so many things which are associated with summers. If you’re not excited for summer already, here are summer quotes for all the inspiration you need to get you in the summer spirit.

Summer Quotes

1. “Summer is time for beach vacations, and the beaches invite you with jazzing waves.” ~ Invajy

2. “If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.” ~ Katie Lee

3. “Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in sunshine.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

4. “Summertime brings with it a sense of adventure and possibility.” ~ Invajy

5. “Summers are the Time for Beaches, Watermelons and Nostalgia.” ~ Invajy

6. “Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is about.” ~ John Mayer
7. “Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
9. “Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.” ~ Hosea Ballou
10. “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” ~ Kellie Elmore

Quotes about Summer

11. “Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ~ Henry James
12. “Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” ~ John Lubbock
14. “In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.” ~ John Steinbeck
15. “Summer is the time when whole family gathers and spends some quality time together.” ~ Invajy

16. “If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.” ~ Anonymous
17. “Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.” ~ Bryan Procter
18. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ~ John Steinbeck
19. “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” ~ William Shakespeare
20. “We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us.” ~ Jenny Uglow

Summertime Quotes

21. “Rejoice as summer should… chase away sorrows by living.” ~ Melissa Marr
22. “To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie – true poems flee.” ~ Emily Dickinson
23. “When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” ~ Wilma Rudolph
24. “Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” ~ Brian Wilson
25. “I am more myself in a garden than anywhere else on earth.” ~ Don Green
26. “She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water.” ~ Katie Daisy
27. “Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.” ~ Helen Keller
28. “Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.” ~ Zooey Deschanel
29. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” ~ Jenny Han
30. “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” ~ Wallace Stevens

Best Summer Quotes

31. “Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me.” ~ Anonymous
32. “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
33. “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” ~ Sylvia Plath
34. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
35. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
36. “I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.” ~ Susan Branch
37. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me.” ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz
38. “One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” ~ Jeanette Walls
39. “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Mallay
40. “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” ~ Sam Keen

Short Summer Quotes

41. “You are so much sunshine in every square inch.” ~ Walt Whitman
42. “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” ~ Robert Orben
43. “But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.” ~ The Beatles
44. “Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer.” ~ Anonymous
45. “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” ~ Al Bernstein
46. “There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.” ~ Celia Thaxter
47. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” ~ William Shakespeare
48. “Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.” ~ Yoko Ono
49. “Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.” ~ Kellie Elmore
50. “I felt like summer had taken me over.” ~ Junot Diaz

Summer Quotes

51. “In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky.” ~ Mungo Jerry
52. “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” ~ Maud Hart Lovelace
53. “Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.” ~ K.D. Lang
54. “Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” ~ Nora Ephron
55. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” ~ L.M. Montgomery
56. “Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” ~ Van Morrison
57. “A life without love is like a year without summer.” ~ Swedish Proverb
58. “Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” ~ George R.R. Martin
59. “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
60. “If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.” ~ Evelyn Waugh

Summer Season Quotes

61. “Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.” ~ C. Day Lewis
62. “The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it.” ~ Katie Lee
63. “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.” ~ Jack McBrayer
64. “A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.” ~ John Mayer
65. “In summer, the song sings itself.” ~ William Carlos Williams
66. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” ~ Charles Bowden
67. “I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.” ~ Toni Morrison
68. “I was made for sunny days.” ~ Anonymous
69. “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” ~ Langston Hughes
70. “Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.” ~ Regina Brett

Popular Summer Quotes

71. “In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.” ~ Margaret Atwood
72. “When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.” ~ Taylor Swift
73. “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” ~ Aimee Friedman
74. “It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.” ~ Anna Godberson
75. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” ~ Betty Williams
76. “I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days.” ~ Danielle Steel
77. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!” ~ Kenny Chesney
78. “In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.” ~ Sarah Dessen
79. “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair…” ~ Susan Polis Schutz
80. “In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” ~ Albert Camus

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