Summer quotes

Summer

2.5K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

2.5K quotes

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside summer — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.

Winter 1.3K quotes Spring 2.9K quotes Flower 3.6K quotes Thinking 95.1K quotes Fall 8.7K quotes Children 25.4K quotes

Quote collection

Summer quotes (page 27 of 126)

Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.

Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Summer

"There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, who, for a part of the year, the winter and spring, are far the most numerous, but in the summer, except for a few explorers for timber, completely desert it; second, the few settlers I have named, the only permanent inhabitants, who live on the verge of it, and help raise supplies for the former; third, the hunters, mostly Indians, who range over it in their season."

Country Spring Summer
Read quote 4 likes
Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Summer

"People who keep a large snake in their apartment building, which happens quite a bit, all of a sudden, within two summers, have a 14-foot animal that's eating adult rabbits, and needs quite a bit of room and quite a bit of heat. That's the animal that gets put in the back of a pick-up truck and dumped into the Florida Everglades or the city lake, or just left on a doorstep - again, it's quite often the animal that suffers."

Animal Feet Summer
Read quote 4 likes
Lin Yutang Writer
Summer

"How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements."

Country Wall Summer
Read quote 4 likes
John Crowley Author
Summer

"'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,' Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.'"

Love Is Summer Winter
Read quote 4 likes
Michelle Obama Lawyer, Author, First Lady
Summer

"This year, 1.7 million young people will be participating in Olympic and Paralympic sports in their communities-many of them for the very first time. And that is so important, because sometimes all it takes is that first lesson, or clinic, or class to get a child excited about a new sport. This summer, together with our children, we can support Team USA not just by cheering them on, but by striving to live up to the example they set."

Sports Summer Cheer
Read quote 4 likes
Kwame Brown Basketball Player
Summer

"This is my first summer [with] no trouble. I ain't go to jail for speeding. Didn't go to jail for DUI. I didn't break my foot. I didn't break my other foot. I'm one step ahead of the game already."

Games Feet Summer
Read quote 4 likes
e. e. cummings Poet, Painter
Summer

"anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did."

Spring Summer Autumn
Read quote 3 likes
e. e. cummings Poet, Painter
Summer

"what if a much of a which of a wind gives the truth to summer's lie; bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun and yanks immortal stars awry?"

Lying Stars Summer
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Summer

"In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions."

Men Summer Europe
Read quote 3 likes
Summer

"The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind."

Past Summer Autumn
Read quote 3 likes
Phil Thompson Football Player
Summer

"Nobody likes being criticised, particularly by players who will be in Disneyland this summer on their holidays rather than the World Cup in Japan"

Player Summer Holiday
Read quote 3 likes
Dan Brown Author
Summer

"I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness."

Boys Summer Bravery
Read quote 3 likes
Calvin Johnson Football Player
Summer

"The old people, they struggled, they fought the elements, they fought everything was against them here. The river, the summers and the heat. So finally when they settled Hurricane there and got the water on that bench, most of them left."

People Summer Rivers
Read quote 3 likes
Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
Summer

"I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day."

Thinking Summer Poetry
Read quote 3 likes
Ed Rollins Political Consultant
Summer

"I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term."

Running Summer California
Read quote 3 likes