73 Summer Quotes to Welcome the Sunshine
Summer is all about sunshine, adventure, and making unforgettable memories.
That’s why we’ve gathered all the best summer quotes for your next post.
And if you’re looking for fun, nostalgic, or inspiring sayings to capture the magic of the season, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
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“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” Brian Wilson
“Life is a summer, full of fun, at the beach, under the sun.” — Debasish Mridha
“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” — Langston Hughes
“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.” — Sarah Helen Whitman
“Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” — Porgy and Bess
“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine…it’s summertime!” — Kenny Chesney
“Oh, bring again my heart’s content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!” — William Allingham
“In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky.” — Mungo Jerry
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever.” — E.B. White
“Summertime, and the reading is easy…” — Michael Dirda
“Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” — Van Morrison
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.” — Regina Brett
“Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.” — Yoko Ono
“Aaah, summer – that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It’s a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.” Darell Hammond
“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
“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
“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” George R.R. Martin
“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” Jeannette Walls
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” Henry David Thoreau
“Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.” Bob Marley
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” Russel Baker
“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
“It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.” Bill Watterson
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” Patricia Briggs
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” Charles Bowden
“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.” Evelyn Waugh
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” Wallace Stevens
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” Sam Keen
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Henry James
“Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.” Hal Borland
“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.” Walter Winchell
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.” Susan Polis Schutz
“Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there.” Francis Thompson
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” John Steinbeck
“Summer is the topsy-turvy season when the goldfish have to be boarded out while the family goes on a fishing trip.” Author Unknown
“Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” John Ruskin
“The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.” Author Unknown
“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
“How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer’s pride.” William Blake
“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer.” — Gertrude Jekyll
“It’s always summer somewhere.” — Lilly Pulitzer
“Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.” — Lailah Gifty Akita
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.” — Debasish Mridha
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow.” — Jonathan Safran Foer
“Palm trees, ocean breeze, salty air, sun-kissed hair. That endless summer, take me there.” — Michele Elder
“The brief flashbacks are sun-kissed, summery and optimistic.” — Steven Soderbergh
“Sunrays must be the sun’s way of dancing alone.” — Prem
“I hope the sun knows how much I rise with its rays.” — Itesh Kumar
“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” — Dodie Smith
“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.” — Kellie Elmore
“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.” — Raymond Duncan
“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” — Nora Ephron
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable.” — Tom Hodgkinson
“If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?” — Steven Wright
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” — Anton Chekhov
“My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.” — Terri Guillemets
“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.” — Hosea Ballou
“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” — Morris West
“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” — John Harrigan
“Simplicity makes me happy.” — Alicia Keys
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” — Anne Frank
“If you want to be happy, be.” — Leo Tolstoy
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” — Kellie Elmore
“A life without love is like a year without summer.” — Swedish Proverb
“Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.” — Michael Faudet
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.” — C. Day Lewis
“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.” — K.D. Lang
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay
