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450 Best Lazy Days Of Summer Quotes: Hazy Sun (2023)

1. “With each splash and giggle, summer break paints the canvas of childhood with unforgettable moments.” – Unknown


2. “I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.”—Elizabeth Berkley, actor. Speaking of beaches, check out the best beach Instagram captions that’ll make waves in your feed.


3. “One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.” – Unknown


4. “Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” – Van Morrison


5. “Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” – Russell Baker


6. “The end-of-summer winds make people restless.” -Sebastian Faulks


7. “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”


8. “Summer’s finale is like a fireworks show of memories, bursting with laughter, adventures, and endless possibilities.” – Owen Sandcastle


9. “Some of the best memories are made in flip flops” – Kellie Elmore


10. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”—Jenny Han, writer


11. “Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fiber of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We’re reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.”- Tom Hodgkinson


12. “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” – Robert Orben


13. “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” ― Patricia Briggs


14. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” – William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18


15. “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. ” — Dag Hammarskjold


16. “The English winter — ending in July,


17. “In the summer, the choice is ours. Generally, no homework or term papers are due in the summer.” – Neill Seltzer


18. “Let the Summer fun begin!” – Unknown


19. “The sun may set on vacation days, but it rises on the chance to explore new stories, places, and friendships.” – Ethan Ray


20. “Today’s forecast: sunscreen.” – Unknown


21. “Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – Henry James


22. “Summer: Hair gets lighter. Skin gets darker. Water gets warmer. Drinks get colder. Music gets louder. Nights get longer. Life gets better.”


23. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!” ― Kenny Chesney


24. “Sandy toes and salty kisses make summer memories worth all the wishes.” – Unknown


25. “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…” ― Susan Polis Schutz


26. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ”


27. “I need summer to be longer so I have more time to do nothing.” – Unknown


28. “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” – Wallace Stevens


29. “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” – Maud Hart Lovelace


30. “July is a blind date with summer.”


31. “If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue. ” — Katie Lee


32. “Long summer days can calm the angriest of beasts.” – Bert McCoy


33. “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” – Yoko Ono


34. “Just as the sun sets on summer, it rises on a new chapter of fun and learning. Embrace the journey ahead!” – Lily Meadows


35. “Summer conditions of warmer temperatures, long daylight hours, and pools of water.” – Edward Paul Ortleb


36. “July is a blind date with summer. ”


37. “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” —William Shakespeare


38. “When summer gathers up her robes of glory, And, like a dream, glides away.”


39. For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction. - Author: James Patrick Kelly


40. “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”—Sam Keen, writer


41. “A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.” – Unknown


42. “Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia—the place where all our dreams come true.”—Roxane Gay, writer


43. “Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”—Regina Brett, author


44. “Summer break is like a popsicle for the soul, melting away worries and filling you with pure joy.” – Unknown


45. “In summer, the song sings itself.” – William Carlos Williams, The Botticellian Trees


46. “If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.” – Katie Lee


47. “Have you summered properly?”—The Beachcomber restaurant, Cape Cod, Massachusetts


48. “The end of summer winds make people restless.” – Sebastian Faulks


49. “Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.” – Kellie Elmore


50. “Not only is it Sum­mer Sol­stice, but there is also a Full Moon. May love sur­round you like sun­shine on a sunny day.” – Unknown


51. “I’m glad it’s finally hot enough to complain about how hot it is.” – Unknown


52. “I love how summer just wraps it’s arms around you like a warm blanket.” – Kellie Elmore


53. “There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?” – Joe Wheeler


54. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” ― Charles Bowden


55. “Hey Summer, I am waiting for you.” – Unknown


56. “The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever. ” ~ Unknown


57. “A life without love is like a year without summer.”


58. “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” -Henry James Getemoji


59. “Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”- Regina Brett


60. “Welcoming Summer one day at a time.”


61. “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” ― William Shakespeare


62. “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti


63. “Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer


64. “On the shore of nature’s magic, I dreamed summer knew no end. ” – Angie Weiland Crosby


65. “My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.” – Terri Guillemets


66. “Wake me up when it’s summer” – Unknown


67. “But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.”


68. “Summertime is that time of year when a man thinks he can cook better outdoors on a grill than any woman can cook indoors using an entire kitchen. ” ~ Unknown


69. If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days. - Author: Jeffrey Sachs


70. “Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.”—Mark Twain, writer


71. “Catch the Summer wave.” – Unknown


72. “With all these lovely tokens of September days are here, with summers best of weather and the autumns best of cheer.”


73. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” – Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty.


74. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. ” — William Shakespeare


75. “i felt like summer had taken me over” – junot diaz, this is how you lose herCountry Living


76. “In summer time to simply be.”


77. “Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. ” — Walt Whitman


78. “Every end is a new beginning. As summer fades, paint your autumn with the colors of laughter and friendship.” – Mia Sunshine


79. “I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicadae lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder.” -Terri Guillemets


80. “Gone to the beach. Be back never.” – Unknown


81. “The only BS I need in my life is the Beach & Sunshine. ” ~ Unknown


82. “Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May, but at length, the season of summer does come.” – Thomas Carlyle


83. “Hello Summer, I have been waiting for you!” – Unknown


84. “Life’s a beach, so grab your pail and play!” – Unknown


85. “It is time for sunsets and palm trees.” – Unknown


86. “Summer break: where the days are long, and the memories are even longer.” – Unknown


87. “Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.” – Bob Marley


88. “The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.”


89. “Summer. When the days get longer, the stars shine brighter, your hair gets lighter, the water gets warmer, the music gets louder and life gets better. ” ~ Unknown


90. It was the very nature of summer. So many long, lazy days when blissfully, nothing changes, and then everything does, all at once. - Author: Sarah Dessen


91. “Summer has a flavour like no other. Always fresh and simmered in sunshine.” – Oprah Winfrey


92. “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”- Wallace Stevens


93. “If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.” – Unknown


94. “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay


95. “Sunshine on my mind.” – Unknown


96. “The tans will fade but the memories will last forever."


97. “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” – William Shakespeare


98. “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”—Henry James, writer. If you’re looking to spread more positive words, read up on the most uplifting quotes that will keep you going.


99. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine… it’s summertime!” – Kenny Chesney


100. “Summer solstice is the brightest day of the year. May your life stay as bright as the summer solstice.” – Mums Invited


101. “Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”―Benjamin Alire Sáenz


102. “Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.”—Harper Lee, writer


103. “In a world of popsicles and flip-flop days, summer’s magic never fades.” – Sarah Summers


104. “When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” – Wilma Rudolph


105. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … It’s summertime!”—Kenny Chesney, American country music singer


106. “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” ― Charles Dickens


107. “Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” -Dodie Smith


108. “Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.” ― Melissa Marr


109. “One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” ― Jeannette Walls


110. “In summer, the song sings itself.”—William Carlos Williams, poet


111. “At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun. ” ~ Unknown


112. “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”—Wallace Stevens, poet


113. “... or literally stake your claim with a tiki-torch perimeter (aggressive, but effective).”


114. “Some of the best memories are made in flip flops. ” ~ Kellie Elmore


115. July 21: I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. July 21 Bible Verse


116. “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”- Langston Hughes


117. “What is more gentle than a wind in summer?” – John Keats


118. “Let’s have some fun in the sun!” – Unknown


119. “My sense of direction leads me one way: to the beach.”—Anonymous. You can get the feeling of this summer quote by thinking about your next vacation.


120. “There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”—Celia Thaxter, writer


121. “I wish you a summer full of water fun, ice cream and popsicles, burgers and hot dogs, campfires with s’mores, twinkling stars, and a lot of fun. Happy Summer!”


122. “Only at the beach can we go a splishin’ and a splashin’.”


123. “Summer is a colorful playground where every child becomes an artist with the sun as their paintbrush.” – Unknown


124. “If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.” – Sarah Dessen


125. “To escape and sit quietly on the beach—that’s my idea of paradise.”—Emilia Wickstead, fashion designer. Get laughing this season with the funniest quotes of all time.


126. “it is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer” anna godbersen, bright young thingsCountry Living


127. “Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.” – Terri Guillemets


128. “Hip, Hip, Horray it is finally SUMMER!” – Unknown


129. “Summer is a state of mind.” – Unknown


130. “There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace its audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.”—Cecelia Ahern, writer


131. “I don’t tan, I burn.” – Unknown


132. “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” – Kellie Elmore


133. Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. - Author: Albert Einstein


134. “Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.” – Zooey Deschanel


135. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine… it’s summertime!” ~ Kenny Chesney


136. “You are so much sunshine in every square inch.” – Walt Whitman


137. “I live for summer.”—Sandra Boynton, cartoonist. We’re also living for these hilarious summer cartoons.


138. “There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.” – Celia Thaxter


139. “Hip, Hip, Hooray for the Hot Summer Day!” – Unknown


140. “It’s always summer somewhere.” —Lilly Pulitzer


141. “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” ― Shanti


142. “In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”- Albert Camus


143. “Keep calm and welcome summer!” – Unknown


144. “So long school, hello summer!”


145. “I was made for sunny days.”


146. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.”


147. “Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.” – Sam Coke


148. “I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.”—Toni Morrison, novelist


149. “A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ”


150. “Happy Summer Solstice 2023!”


151. “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”- Sam Keen


152. “Happy to be welcoming Summer!” – Unknown


153. “There’s no place like home. Except for the beach.”—Anonymous


154. “I was made for sunny days. ”


155. “Camp is a place where kids can be themselves, embrace their quirks, and shine like the brightest stars in the night sky.” – Unknown


156. “Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” ― Nora Ephron


157. “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”—William Shakespeare, writer


158. “Make use of the sun while it shines.” – Danish Proverb


159. “In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other…everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time – this collection of weeks when anything was possible. ” ~ Sarah Dessen


160. I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect. - Author: Billy Corgan


161. “Forever chasing the sun.”


162. “Keep calm and enjoy summer camp!” – Unknown


163. “Cause I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good song in my feet.” – Justin Timberlake


164. ‘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


165. “One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. ” — Aristotle


166. “In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops, and school.”—Margaret Atwood, poet, novelist


167. “Hello Summer 2023!”


168. “I drifted into a summer-nap


169. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air’s salubrity. ” — Ralph Waldo Emerson


170. “Salt in the air, sand in my hair.” – Unknown


171. “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, actor, comedian


172. “The beach is calling, and I must go build sandcastles and collect seashells.” – Unknown


173. You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself. - Author: Justina Chen


174. “Be so happy that when others look at you they become happy too. Happy Summer!” – Unknown


175. “All in all, it was a never to be forgotten summer… One of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near perfection as anything can come in this world.” – L.M. Montgomery


176. “Don’t mind my resting beach face.” – Unknown


177. “It is time for tan lines, hello Summer.” – Unknown


178. “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”—Kellie Elmore, writer. You know what else wraps around you like a warm blanket (apart from summer quotes)? Happiness!


179. “The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.” ―E.B. White


180. “Life is better in summer camp!” – Unknown


181. “There is no ‘we’ in summer. Only ‘u’ and ‘me’.” – Unknown


182. “again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth” yukio mishima, runaway horses the sea of fertility, 2Country Living


183. “The Summer looks out from her brazen tower,


184. The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed. - Author: William Blum


185. “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”—Maud Hart Lovelace, writer


186. “To see the summer sky is poetry; to feel the summer breeze is prose.” – Unknown


187. “The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.” – Unknown


188. “Summer break is a time to dance in the rain, jump in puddles, and create memories that will last a lifetime.” – Unknown


189. “In summer, the song sings itself.” – William Carlos Williams


190. “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


191. “Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmine in my mind.” – Seals & Crofts


192. “Summer gathered in the weather, the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow. You had only to rise, lean from your window, and know that this was the first real time of freedom and living; this was the first morning of summer. ” — Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine


193. “Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about. ” ~ John Mayer


194. “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


195. “Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness.” – Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens


196. “Summer vacation: where you drink triple, see double and act single.” – Unknown


197. “Early June, the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode and every sunset is different.” – John Steinbeck, The Winter Of Our Discontent.


198. “Happiness is summer!” – Unknown


199. “Hello Summer. Let’s do this!” – Unknown


200. “If the first of July be rainy weather,


201. “I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.”—Susan Branch, writer


202. “Endings are just invitations for exciting beginnings. Let the end of summer beckon your imagination to new horizons.” – Zoe Starlight


203. “Goodbye summer, it is time for a new season!”


204. “It’s always summer somewhere.”


205. “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” ―Sylvia Plath


206. “Let’s light the Solstice fires, and dance for a shift that will bring us into balance, with the earth and with one another, so that all those young lives may thrive!” – Unknown


207. “Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer.” – Nat King Cole


208. “July: Just take me to the Ocean. ”


209. “Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.” – C. Day Lewis


210. “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” —-Sylvia Plath


211. “Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


212. “I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.”- Brendan Behan


213. “Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.” – Hal Borland


214. “Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.” – Debasish Mridha


215. “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, writer


216. “Summer means happy times and good sunshine.” – Brian Wilson


217. “Nothing is impopsicle!”


218. “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” — William Shakespeare


219. “Under the sun, we all shine brighter together.” – Ella Sunshine


220. “Life is better in the summer.” – Unknown


221. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.“ – Charles Bowden


222. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” -L. M. Montgomery


223. “Never stop chasing summer” – Unknown


224. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz


225. “In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.” ―Steven Millhauser


226. “Not only is it Summer Solstice, but there is also a full moon. May love surround you like sunshine on a sunny day.” – Williams Shakespeare


227. “Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.” – Bryan Procter


228. “Summer is a canvas, so paint your dreams with vibrant hues.” – Lily Meadows


229. “Let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we see. ” ~ Unknown


230. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”- John Lubbock


231. “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep. But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.” – Robert Frost


232. “Vacation mode is activated.”


233. “A little bit of summer is what the whole year is about.” – John Mayer


234. “Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.”—Kellie Elmore, writer


235. “everything good, everything magical, happens between the months of june and august” – jenny han, the summer i turned prettyCountry Living


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


237. “Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me.” – Unknown


238. “One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by. ” — Jeanette Walls


239. “One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” – Jeannette Walls


240. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine…it’s summertime!” – Kenny Chesney


241. “Hello to the long days of Summer that I hope is filled with laughter and sunshine.” – Unknown


242. “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau


243. “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” ―Maud Hart Lovelace


244. “Soul of a mermaid, mouth of a sailor.” – Unknown


245. “Summer will end soon enough, childhood as well.” – George R.R. Martin


246. “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, politician


247. “I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.”


248. “At summer camp, every day is an invitation to explore, grow, and discover the extraordinary within ourselves.” – Unknown


249. “Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.”- Bob Marley


250. “In every child’s heart, there’s a secret garden where they can find endless fun and adventure during summer break.” – Unknown


251. “Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” -Russell Baker


252. “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.”—Al Bernstein, sportscaster


253. “There is always that one summer that changes you.”


254. “Happy Summer!”


255. “August is like the Sunday of summer.”


256. “These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there’s only future, there’s only here, there’s only now.” – Van Morrison


257. “Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”- Brian Wilson


258. “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” – Sam Keen


259. “To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.” – Regina Brett


260. “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket. ” ~ Kellie Elmore


261. “When the sun is shining, I can’t do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” – Wilma Rudolph


262. “If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.”—Anonymous


263. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” – L.M. Montgomery


264. “If there is a will there is a wave.” – Unknown


265. “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.”—Langston Hughes, poet, novelist, social activist


266. “Summertime and time for wandering…” – Kellie Elmore


267. “It’s summer and time for wandering…” – Kellie Elmore


268. “Campfires and laughter, adventures and new friends, summer camp is where the best stories begin.” – Unknown


269. “If you’re not barefoot then you’re overdressed. ” ~ Unknown


270. “Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” – Nora Ephron


271. “When winter comes, summer shines infinitely in our hearts.” – Mehmet Murat ildan


272. Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson


273. “Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.” ― Kellie Elmore


274. “Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.” – Sam Cooke


275. “One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” – Henry David Thoreau


276. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.”—Benjamin Alire Sáenz, poet. Summer quotes are all very well, but what about summer horoscopes?


277. “In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” – John Steinbeck


278. “Now let the sun shine bright on my happy Summer home.” – Jerry Paul Keller


279. “The summer solstice is a time for strength and vitality for action and movement.” – Unknown


280. “Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” ― George R.R. Martin


281. “July is not only a season of the year; it is a season of the mind and memory. Hot days and sultry nights and crashing thunderstorms are a part of July, and to the drone of bees in the clover fields will soon be added the high-pitched sibilance of the cicada. The tang of ripe cherries and the sweetness of sunning hay…. ”


282. “Sunshine and giggles, the perfect summer medley.” – Lily Meadows


283. “A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.” – Raymand Duncan


284. “In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can’t drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that’s just what you do, abandoning the car. ”


285. “Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.” – Unknown


286. “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ― Henry James


287. “In the hazy days at summer’s end When the air’s still warm and the green near spent When the days grow short and the evenings tall Then you feel in a whisper, Fall.


288. “One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”—Jeanette Walls, writer


289. “Welcoming the Summer month!” – Unknown


290. “Summer was on the way; Jem & I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colours in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.” – Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird.


291. “Here comes Summer with quite the sway.” – Unknown


292. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?” – John Steinbeck


293. “If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.”


294. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.”—Charles Bowden, writer


295. “She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water.” – Katie Daisy


296. “It is always summer somewhere.” – Lilly Pulityer


297. “If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed. ”


298. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck


299. “Let the sun shine on me, for I care not for the moon.” – Spanish Proverb


300. “In the wilderness of summer camp, children discover the treasures of nature and the magic of their own potential.” – Unknown


301. “The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkly lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.” – J.K Rowling, Harry Potter & The Order of The Phoenix.


302. “Don’t worry beach happy!” – Unknown


303. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”—Jenny Han


304. “Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” – Brian Wilson


305. “Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air. ” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


306. “A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.” – James Dent


307. “The sun is shining, the waves are crashing, and the sand is calling – it’s summertime!” – Unknown


308. “I wish you wouldn’t have to leave!” – Unknown


309. “In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and touch the sky.” – Mungo Jerry


310. “Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.” -Darnell Lamont Walker


311. “Happy Summer! May the warm days ahead fill you with joy!” – Unknown


312. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. ” ~ Helen Keller


313. “Have a nice summer vacation.” – Unknown


314. “Anything is popsicle.” – Unknown


315. “One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.”—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer and aviator


316. “Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.”—Zooey Deschanel, actress


317. “If it could only be like this always—always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.”—Evelyn Waugh, writer


318. “I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.” ― Michael Faudet


319. “Always think happy thoughts, it is Summer overall!” – Susanne Williams


320. “Let’s welcome a marvelous Summer and bid farewell to an amazing Spring.” – Unknown


321. “The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.”


322. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus


323. “Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”- Hosea Ballou


324. “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, poet


325. “Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds. ” ~ Regina Brett


326. “Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”


327. “O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne


328. “Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.” – Paul Monette


329. “I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I’m one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun—my children are horrified!”—Danielle Steel, writer


330. “Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.”—Yoko Ono, artist


331. “Welcome Summer, I am ready for sunshine.” – Unknown


332. “Summer don’t go!”


333. “Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented. ” — Gilbert K. Chesterton


334. “People get a little bolder and more wild in summer. You’ve got things going on kabobs, things cooking on the bone. There’s something about standing over a grill or outside with the family that inspires us. ” — Guy Fieri


335. “A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are chirping, and the lawn mower is broken. ~ Unknown


336. “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on 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, The Great Gatsby.


337. “Summer is a state of mind."


338. “Let the sun be your compass and the sand be your playground.” – Ella Sunshine


339. “I pray and hope you have a wonderful Summer.”


340. “The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn; the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.”—J. R. Lowell, poet


341. “When I feel the heat, I see the light.” – Everett Dirksen


342. “When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble is too difficult to overcome.” – Wilma Rudolph


343. “Welcome summer, please be awesome!” – Unknown


344. “One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”—Henry David Thoreau


345. “The warm weather has arrived. May we have more bright days to come. Happy Summer Solstice!” – Unknown


346. “Happy First Day of Summer!”


347. “Summer: Hair gets lighter. Skin gets darker. Water gets warmer. Drinks get colder. Music gets louder. Nights get longer. Life gets better.” – Unknown


348. “Always make sure to get your daily dose of Vitamin Sea.” – Unknown


349. “In summer, the song sings itself.” -William Carlos Williams


350. “Summer may be ending, but the stories it’s written on our hearts will last forever.” – Jenna Rivers


351. “A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.” – Raymond Duncan


352. The beach isn’t a destination… it’s a mindset. ”


353. “She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water.”—Katie Daisy, artist. After reading these summer quotes, feel nostalgic for other seasons with these spring quotes and fall quotes.


354. “When the last sunbeam of summer dances across the sky, it leaves behind a trail of sparkles in our dreams.” – Harper Breeze


355. “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


356. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”—William Shakespeare, writer


357. “I wondered what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June” – L.M Montgomery, Anne of The Island.


358. “When all else fails, take a vacation.”—Betty Williams, peace activist


359. “Every summer has its own story, but mine is a novel.”—Anonymous


360. “Happiness is a summer day spent chasing butterflies and eating ice cream.” – Unknown


361. “Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. For those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. Summer just opens the door and lets you out.” – Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart.


362. “Be Sure Not To Fizzle When The Summer Starts To Sizzle”


363. “It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.” ―L.M. Montgomery


364. “Say hello Summer!” – Unknown


365. Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ” ~ Hans Christian Andersen


366. “Farewell, summer! Your warmth may fade, but the friendships and dreams you’ve given us will shine forever.” – Ruby Skies


367. “Our one wish is that the summer never ends!” – Paul Dini


368. “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” – Oscar Wilde


369. “Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


370. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


371. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.” – Helen Keller


372. “I felt like summer had taken me over.”


373. “I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days.” – Danielle Steel


374. “Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.”- Diane Ackerman


375. “Catch the waves of laughter and ride the tides of joy.” – Harper Seashell


376. “Saying goodbye to summer is like bidding farewell to a good friend, knowing that the memories we shared will warm our hearts until we meet again.” – Unknown


377. “One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”


378. “Summer days are for exploring, discovering, and creating memories that keep us soaring.” – Mia Mermaid


379. “Go where the sun is warm, the WIFI is weak and the rum is strong. ”


380. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” – Jenny Han


381. “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ” — Henry James


382. “When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.”


383. “sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you, my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling” kd langCountry Living


384. “Sun, sand, and a pineapple in hand make the perfect summer day.” – Unknown


385. “Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.” – Yoko Ono


386. “Hello Summer, please be good to me!” – Unknown


387. “Happy Summer Vacation.” – Unknown


388. “Everything good, everything magical, happens between the months of June and August.”


389. “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” – Al Bernstein


390. “Life is better with sunglasses on.” – Unknown


391. “Ah, summer! The season when worry steps aside, delight takes over, and every day is as good as the amount of time spent outdoors.


392. “We hope to inspire a communal kitchen, where one person makes the salad, another readies the grill, others set the table, more run to the fish shop, and someone dozes off on the beach and emerges around dessert time with renewed enthusiasm for margarita making. (That's an important role, too.)”


393. “Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” – Porgy and Bess


394. “The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.” —Unknown


395. “Summer will end soon enough, and childhood will as well. ” ~ George R. R. Martin


396. You're scaring the dog, Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in


397. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. ” ~ Jenny Han


398. “We welcome Summer and hope it drives all our worries away.” – Unknown


399. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn


400. “I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.” —Susan Branch


401. “Summer should get a speeding ticket.” – Unknown


402. “The end-of-summer winds make people restless.” – Sebastian Faulks


403. We'd held each other before, on lazy summer days, between private kisses and languid touches, but never anything that I would have considered a true hug: selfless support not instigated by desire, comfort for comfort's sake. This was different. - Author: Rose Christo


404. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”—John Steinbeck, writer


405. “It’s summer and time for wandering…”—Kelli Elmore, writer


406. “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” ―Aimee Friedman


407. “A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.” – John Mayer


408. “While we’re young and beautiful, living free and easy. Here without a worry, dancing in our bare feet because when the summer’s done we might not be so young and beautiful.”


409. “As we wave goodbye to summer, remember that the best souvenirs are the moments that made us smile.” – Ava Summers


410. “Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds. ” — Regina Brett


411. “It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”


412. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” – Charles Bowden


413. “Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.”- Gilbert K. Chesterton


414. “Summer’s filled with breaking the rules, standing apart, ignoring your head, and following your heart.” – Unknown


415. “A life without love is like a year without summer.”—Swedish proverb


416. “The great gift of the energy of the Summer Solstice is that it’s designed to move you from one phase to the next on your terms.” – Unknown


417. “In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.” ―Sarah Dessen


418. “Again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.”


419. “‘Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.” – John Mayer


420. “I could never in hundred summers get tired of this.” – Susan Branch


421. “Let’s sit on a rooftop at 2 am, feel the summer breeze sweep across our cheek and talk about our dreams. ”


422. “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.” – Langston Hughes


423. “Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.” – K.D. Lang


424. “He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”- John Burroughs


425. Sometimes inspiration comes from a single ray of sunshine. ”~ Hearth and Made


426. “So long summer!” – Unknown


427. laurajaworski. com


428. “Feeling Hot Hot Hot” – Unknown


429. “Ah, 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.” – Darrell Hammond


430. “Lazy days of summer are the perfect time to let your imagination soar like a kite in the sky.” – Unknown


431. “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. ” — John Keats


432. “But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter. ”


433. “Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers. ”


434. “Celebrate summer, sundrenched days, and starlit nights.” – Gooseberry Patch


435. “I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this. ” ~ Susan Branch


436. “The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.” ―Victoria Kahler


437. “Ah Summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” – Russell Baker


438. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” – Betty Williams


439. “No shoes, no shirt, no problems.” – Kenny Chesney


440. “i have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and i see summer – its dust and lowering skies” – toni morrison, the bluest eyeCountry Living


441. “Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”- C. Day Lewis


442. “One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”—Henry David Thoreau, writer


443. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” – John Keats


444. “Pizza Solves a Lot of Problems,” and Other College Advice I’m Passing Along to My Teen


445. “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” ― Kellie Elmore


446. “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir


447. “I felt like summer had taken me over.” – Junot Diaz


448. “Thank you summer, you have been good to me!” – Unknown


449. “A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.”


450. “Sun-kissed cheeks and endless adventures, summer is where happiness lingers.” – Sarah Summers


451. “Just the smell of summer can make me fall in love.”


452. “Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you, my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”


453. “June, the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” – Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy & Tib.


454. “Camp is a place where friends are made, memories are created, and dreams take flight.” – Unknown


455. “It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.” -Walter Winchell


456. “The ocean made me salty.” – Unknown


457. “It is easy to forget how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.” – Anna Godbersen


458. Just give me a quiet spot with a breathtaking view, a cool drink in my hand, a warm sea breeze on my skin and the soothing sound of waves crashing and I will be in all my glory. ” ~ Just a Kiss Away

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