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Summer QuotesSummer quotes is a pretty narrow focus for a website, but we don't think that's a bad thing. Anyway, this site does one thing and one thing only, and that's offer quotes about summer. (If you're looking for quotes about other seasons, like spring, fall, or winter, you'll have to look elsewhere.) Enjoy the summer quotes below: Quotes About Summer"Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, who could ask for more?" -Bev Adams "What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance." -Jane Austen "Tears are the summer showers to the soul." -Alfred Austin "Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it." -Russel Baker "When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day." -Roy Blount Jr. "Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you." -Erma Bombeck "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass." -Rupert Brooke "Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." -Warren Buffett "Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays." -Robert Burns "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." -Albert Camus "It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong." -John Cheever "People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." -Anton Chekhov "Summer has set in with its usual severity." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge "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 "Do what we can, summer will have its flies." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." -St. Francis of Assisi "Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun." -Kahlil Gibran "Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Here is a promise Of summer to be." -William Ernest Henley "Who has not dreamed a world of bliss on a bright, sunny noon like this?" -William Howitt "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 "Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." -Henry James "What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade." -Gertrude Jekyll "Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." -Sam Keen "August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied." -Joseph Wood Krutch "In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them." -Aldo Leopold "What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days." -James Russell Lowell "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 "I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June." -L. M. Montgomery "Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown, Why, one day in the country Is worth a month in town." -Christina G. Rossetti "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 "Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York; And all the clouds that lowered upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried." -William Shakespeare "The summer night is like a perfection of thought." -Wallace Stevens "There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart." -Celia Thaxter "If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance." -Bern Williams "In summer, the song sings itself." -William Carlos Williams "Yellow butterflies look like flowers flying through the warm summer air." -Andrea Willis
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