Summertime Quotes

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon … the two most beautiful words in the English language.  – Henry JamesLove 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

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. — Celia Thaxter

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

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.  – Wallace Stevens

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. — Sam Keen

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. — James Dent

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

What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace. — Ellen Goodman

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.  – Henry David Thoreau

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The question, “Which is the happiest season of life?” was asked of an aged man. And he replied: “When spring comes, and in the soft air the buds are breaking on the trees, and they are covered with blossoms, I think, ‘How beautiful is spring’; and when summer comes and covers the trees with its heavy foliage, and singing birds are among the branches, I think, ‘How beautiful is summer.’ When autumn loads them with golden fruit, and their leaves bear the gorgeous tint of frost, I think, ‘How beautiful is autumn.’ And when it is severe winter, and there is neither foliage nor fruit, then I look up through the leafless branches as I never could until now, and see the stars shine in God’s home.” — Unknown