Summer Quotes

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie - True Poems flee.
- Emily Dickinson

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

Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
- Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
- Anonymous Author

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- Russel Baker

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.
- Violette Leduc

A life without love is like a year without summer.
- Swedish Proverb

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
- Ada Louise Huxtable

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