Summer Quotes

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. View quote
Henry James
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face. View quote
John Donne
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. View quote
Heraclitus
It will not always be summer; build barns. View quote
Hesiod
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
I know that if odour were visible as colour is, I'd see the summer garden aureoled in rainbow clouds. View quote
Robert Bridges
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. (Langston Hughes)
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. View quote
Edward Moore
These bitter sorrows of childhood when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless. View quote
George Eliot
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware. View quote
Robert Frost
In summer, the song sings itself. View quote
William Carlos Williams
Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day. View quote
L. Neil Smith
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour Improve each moment as it flies Life 's a short summer, man a flower He diesalas how soon he dies. View quote
Samuel Johnson
She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age. (John Dryden)
Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. View quote
Nora Ephron
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods. View quote
Georg Brandes
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary. View quote
James Russell Lowell