Inspiring Summer Quotes

Be inspired by some of our favorite summer quotes.

For many, summer is the best time of the year. With the warm weather and the sunny days, we can find many reasons to smile. Some of our finest poets, authors and philosophers have praised the summer months, so we thought we’d share some of our favorite summer quotes with you.

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A summer quote from St. Francis of Assisi

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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

—St. Francis of Assisi


A summer quote from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Then followed that beautiful season…Summer…Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A summer quote from Gooseberry Patch

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Celebrate summer—sun-drenched days and starlit nights.

—Gooseberry Patch


A summer quote from James Dent

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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


A summer quote from John Lubbock

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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


A summer quote from Henry James

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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

—Henry James


A summer quote from Celia Thaxter

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There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

—Celia Thaxter

A summer quote from Wallace Stevens

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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

—Wallace Stevens


A summer quote from William Carlos Williams

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In summer, the song sings itself.

—William Carlos Williams


A summer quote from Charles Bowden

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Summertime is always the best of what might be.

—Charles Bowden


A summer quote from Kellie Elmore

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Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.

—Kellie Elmore


A summer quote from Debasish Mridha

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Summer arrives with the morning sun. Beach time breezes in with endless fun.

—Debasish Mridha

A summer quote from Marty Rubin

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Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns.

—Marty Rubin


A summer quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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

READ MORE: THE SIMPLE JOYS OF SUMMER

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