quotations about summer
It happened one summer
It happened one time
It happened forever
For a short time
A place for a moment
An end to dream
Forever I loved you
Forever it seemed
THE MOTELS
"Suddenly Last Summer"
If it's summer and you're unfortunate enough to be outdoors -- and it's worth asking that if the outdoors is so great, why did we invent the indoors? -- you are already hot and sweaty. What could make that worse? Bugs! Millions and millions of bugs, many of which are eager to bite you or sit on the food that you've been conned into eating outdoors. Now you're hot and sweaty and itchy and your hamburger has been trod on by an insect with questionable hygiene. And there's some knucklehead at the table next to you grinning and sweating and swatting flies and saying, "Oh, man, don't you just love summer!"
REX HUPPKE
"The Unbearable Dreadfulness of Summer", Chicago Tribune, July 5, 2017
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.
ANNA GODBERSEN
Bright Young Things
Let India boast her fan-leaf'd palm,
And Lebanon her cedar trees,
Give me a summer Sunday's calm,
And garden fill'd with flowers like these.
BESSIE RAYNER BELLOC
Summer Sketches and Other Poems
Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
DODIE SMITH
I Capture the Castle
Every shady grove in summer is to a man a holy temple, where his God moves nearer to him; every green sod an altar, where he kneels before the Lofty One.
LUDWIG HEINRICH CHRISTOPH HOLTY
attributed, Day's Collacon
What many people don't realize is that summer is the perfect time to add exercise into their lives. Longer daylight hours, less rigid work schedules and fewer child care demands mean you have time to establish an exercise routine that fits your work-life balance and can keep you toned not only during the summer, but also throughout the year.
NEMIAH RUTLEDGE
"Summer is the season to kickstart your exercise routine", Ponte Vedra Recorder, July 5, 2017
We got sweaty sheets and an ocean view
and it feels like a time machine
well you can't forget what you never knew
so come erase this summer with me
SUPERCHUNK
"This Summer"
No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher's dirty looks
Well we got no class
And we got no principles
And we got no innocence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes
School's out for summer
School's out forever
School's been blown to pieces
ALICE COOPER
"School's Out"
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
If you've forgotten what I'm naming
You're gonna long to reclaim it one day
Because that summer feeling is gonna haunt you one day in your life
And if you wait until your older
A sad resentment will smolder one day
And then that summer feeling is gonna haunt you
And that summer feeling's gonna taunt you
And then that summer feeling is gonna hurt you one day in your life
JONATHAN RICHMAN
"That Summer Feeling"
The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul,
Comes back with more than the first loveliness--
The all I've lost, the more I never found
Haunting her beauty, while for me she weaves
Of color, odor, sound, her perfect days.
MARY CLEMMER AMES
"Presence"
A summer romance is something special, because it blazes like a comet across the sky and then fades out. The thing that makes it special--that makes everything move so fast--is that a summer romance is doomed to end.
JOHN VORNHOLT
Coyote Moon
Well shut them books and throw em away
Say goodbye to dull school days
So come on and change your ways
It's summertime...
THE JAMIES
"Summertime, Summertime"
Summer's morning wakes with a ring of birds, and everything is as distinctly cut as if it stood in heaven and not on earth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
attributed, Day's Collacon
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.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
In winter I get up at night,
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
In Winter I get up at Night
In the summertime when the weather is hot
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find
MUNGO JERRY
"In the Summertime"
That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Well I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm a-gonna raise a holler
About a-workin' all summer just to try an' earn a dollar
Everytime I call my baby, to try to get a date
My boss says, "No dice, son, you gotta work late"
Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do
Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
EDDIE COCHRAN
"Summertime Blues"