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Updated Sep. 01, 2024
Summer quotes for those lazy, hazy, crazy days
Ah, summer. Warm evenings, lazy mornings, lazy afternoons, lazy evenings, lazy weekends … wait, what were we talking about? Oh, yes: barbecues, vacations, ice cream, swimming, beautiful nature and other summer traditions. Many people believe that summer is the best season of the year, and these summer quotes show they have good reason to think so.
Whether you’re relaxing on the beach or sharing a good ol’ summer meme at the season’s long-awaited rooftop gatherings, summer is a time when everything loosens up a little bit. And since summer starts on June 20 this year, you’ll definitely want to share some summer quotes to kick-start the fun.
Funny summer quotes
1. “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” —Sam Keen, writer
2. “Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer
3. “If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.” —Unknown
4. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” —Betty Williams, peace activist
5. “If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.” —Katie Lee, author
6. “I’m sorry for the things I said when it was winter.” —Unknown
7. “When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.” —Taylor Swift, singer
8. “Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” —Russell Baker, journalist
9. “Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.” —Kellie Elmore, writer
10. “Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.” —Regina Brett, author
11. “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
12. “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” —Al Bernstein, sportscaster
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Cute summer quotes
13. “In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” —John Steinbeck, writer
14. “Summertime, and the living is easy.” —Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer
15. “Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.” —Zooey Deschanel, actress
16. “I live for summer.” —Sandra Boynton, cartoonist
17. “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” —Kellie Elmore, writer
18. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine—it’s summertime!” —Kenny Chesney, country music singer
19. “Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer
20. “In summer, the song sings itself.” —William Carlos Williams, poet
21. “I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.” —Susan Branch, writer
22. “Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.” —Mark Twain, writer
23. “One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” —Jeanette Walls, writer
24. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” —Charles Bowden, author
25. “Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” —Van Morrison, musician
26. “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
27. “My sense of direction leads me one way: to the beach.” —Anonymous
28. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” —Benjamin Alire Sáenz, poet
29. “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” —Maud Hart Lovelace, writer
30. “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
31. “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” —Henry James, writer
32. “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
33. “O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” —Roman Payne, novelist
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Summer love quotes
34. “She was sippin’ on Southern and singing Marshall Tucker. We were fallin’ in love in the sweet heart of summer.” —Florida Georgia Line, music duo
35. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” —William Shakespeare, writer
36. “Being in love is like a roller coaster and a stroll on the beach rolled into one.” —Unknown
37. “Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” —Nora Ephron, writer
38. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” —William Shakespeare, writer
39. “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” —Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet
40. “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” —Patricia Briggs, author
41. “A life without love is like a year without summer.” —Unknown
42. “She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water.” —Katie Daisy, artist
43. “Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars—a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they’re gone.” —Nicholas Sparks, novelist
44. “A life without love is like a year without summer.” —Swedish proverb
Summer quotes about love are great, but don’t forget to check out these love quotes for any season.
Summer quotes for kids
45. “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” —Shanti, author
46. “Friends, sun, sand and sea—that sounds like a summer to me.” —Unknown
47. “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, author
48. “Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” —Brian Wilson, musician
49. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” —Jenny Han, writer
50. “Cause a little bit of summer’s what the whole year’s all about.” —John Mayer, singer-songwriter
Are the kiddos loving these summer quotes? If so, they’ll love these inspirational kids quotes too!
Summer beach quotes
51. “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
52. “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
53. “Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.” —Debasish Mridha, author
54. “I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.” —Elizabeth Berkley, actor
55. “To escape and sit quietly on the beach—that’s my idea of paradise.” —Emilia Wickstead, fashion designer
56. “There’s no place like home. Except for the beach.” —Anonymous
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End-of-summer quotes
57. “This is June, the month of grass and leaves … already the aspens are trembling again, and a new summer is offered me.” —Henry David Thoreau, writer
58. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” —John Steinbeck, writer
59. “If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juicy middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.” —Sarah Dessen, novelist
60. “The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever.” —Unknown
61. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” —L.M. Montgomery, author
62. “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 and comedian
63. “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, author
64. “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, writer
65. “To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall.” —Ann Patchett, author
After reading these summer quotes, feel nostalgic for other seasons with these spring quotes and fall quotes.
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Originally Published: April 06, 2022
