129 Sizzling Summer Quotes

“Summertime and the living is easy,” as Ella Fitzgerald once sang.

Summer is one of my favorite times of the year, and for kids too. Who doesn’t love the long summer vacation with its long days, carefree attitude, and, for us, plenty of family time?

It’s perfect, really!

Summer is all about catching some rays, BBQs, and fun! So, we’ve collected some of the best quotes about my favorite season to inspire your summer fun!

Before you read them, make sure you check out some of the other fun summer activities that we have here on Skip to My Lou, including Summer Bucket List 100’s of Ideas {Free Printable}, Free Printable Summer Coloring Page, Summer Jokes and Genius Summer Hacks.

Happy Summer!

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“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
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck
“A life without love is like a year without summer.” ― Unknown
“Like a first slow dance and a first long kiss / There ain’t nothing baby better then this / It’s like a beach blanket and a bottle of wine / It feels something like summertime.” ― Bon Jovi, “Summertime”
“Summertime, and the living is easy.” ― Ella Fitzgerald
“In summer, the song sings itself.” ― William Carlos Williams
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” ― Jeannette Walls
“The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.” ― Unknown
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ― Henry James
“Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me.” ― Unknown
“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” ― Brian Wilson
“School’s out. Scream and shout!” ― Unknown
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” — Charles Bowden
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time.” — John Lubbock
“Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day?” — Eugene Kennedy
“It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.” — John Cheever
“Summer is delicately made. While it is, it is ceasing.” — Genevieve Taggard
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.” — C. Day Lewis
“Summer: Hair gets lighter. Water gets warmer. Nights get longer. Life gets better.” — Unknown
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…” — Susan Polis Schutz
“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” — Pablo Neruda
“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!” ― Kenny Chesney
“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” ― Roman Payne
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” ― Maud Hart Lovelace
“I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.” — Henry David Thoreau
“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” ― Jeannette Walls
“I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.” — Emily Dickinson
“How quick time goes by now, compared to when you were a kid. Summer used to last forever. Now it’s twelve weeks.” — John Goodman
“I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.” — Lucy Stone
“Swim through the serene summer sky.” — Virgil
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” ― Charles Bowden
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”― William Shakespeare
“I will always seek to make it summer for you.” ― Leigh Bardugo
“The magic fades too fast, the scent of summer never lasts, the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains…nothing lasts.” ― Sanober Khan
“Pack your bags; fill your days; summer is for adventures in a million ways.” ― Unknown
“Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, / As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.” — Samuel Rogers
“And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” — Shanti
“I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.”
― Michael Faudet
“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”
― K.D. Lang
“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.”
― Sara Baume
“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.”― Sebastian Faulks
“‘Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.” ― John Mayer
“I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.” — Lucy Stone
“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.”― Kellie Elmore
“There is the elixir of lifein the gentle summer breeze. The more it caresses me,the more alive I feel.” ― Bhuwan Thapaliya
“Sometimes I wonder what I’m gonna do / But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues.” — Eddie Cochran
“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.” — Sarah Dessen
“How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.” — Emily Dickinson
“Dancing days are here again, As the summer evenings grow.” — Led Zeppelin
“Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.” — Ray Bradbury,
“It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.” — John Cheever
“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
“Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day?” — Eugene Kennedy
“I love how summer just wraps it’s arms around you like a warm blanket.” ― Kellie Elmore
“Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night! Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars! Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night! ― Walt Whitman
“The whole summer was inside of us.” ―Leah Raeder
“In the summer, we write life’s summary with the slow waves of love flowing over the sandy beach. The slow breeze and the warm sun write our memories.” ― Debasish Mridha
“How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat. Some dance to remember, some dance to forget” ― The Eagles
“Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.” ― Melissa Marr
“If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.” — Unknown
“Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.” — Zooey Deschanel
“I live for summer.” — Sandra Boynton
“I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.” —Susan Branch
“Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” — Van Morrison
“When all else fails, take a vacation.” — Betty Williams
“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
“My sense of direction leads me one way: to the beach.” — Unknown
“I wanna soak up the sun!” — Sheryl Crow
“The Steadfast Love of the Lord is not Seasonal; His Mercies do not have winter or summer days… They are new every now and then.” ― Israelmore Ayivor
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” ― John Steinbeck
“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
“To escape and sit quietly on the beach — that’s my idea of paradise.” ― Emelia Wickstead
“I live for summer.” ― Sandra Boynton
“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 Lebbock.
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” — Russell Baker
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.” —Regina Brett
“Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” —Al Bernstein
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” — L.M. Montgomery
“If other seasons were to be rooms of a mansion, summer would surely be the party hall.” ― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
“There’s no place like home. Except for the beach.” — Unknown
“I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.” — Elizabeth Berkley
“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
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside”. — Maud Hart Lovelace
“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
“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.” — Katie Lee
“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.” — Helen Keller
“Oh, the summer night / HAS A SMILE OF LIGHT / And she sits on a sapphire throne.” ― Barry Cornwall
“Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” — Mario Fernández
“Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in sunshine.” — Oprah Winfrey
“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” — Pablo Neruda
“Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.” — Sam Cooke
“I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.” — Robert Bridges
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and touch the sky.” — Mungo Jerry
“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.” — Tony Morrison
“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.” — Anna Godbersen
“But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.” — The Beatles
“Summer breeze makes me feel fine.” — Seals & Crofts
“We know summer is the height of being alive.” — Gary Shteyngart
“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” —Wilma Rudolph
“Every other season is a romance. Summer is a party.” ― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
“Summer is beaches, sunsets and sweet perfection, but it is also goodbyes, growth and impermanence.” ― Shreya Sophie k
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” ― Wallace Stevens
“Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ― Henry James
“If it could only be like this always—always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.” ― Evelyn Waugh
“Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” ― Al Bernstein
“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
“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
“A life without love is like a year without summer.” — Swedish proverb
“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
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Being in love is like a roller coaster and a stroll on the beach rolled into one.” — Unknown
“She was sippin’ on Southern and singing Marshall Tucker. We were fallin’ in love in the sweet heart of summer.” — Florida Georgia Line
“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” — Roman Payne
“Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” — Mario Fernández
“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
“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
“Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.” — Mark Twain
“You prefer the tide and the waves, the unclouded and sunny days with hot weather….” ― Ikrame Selkani
“I put on my summer clothes and feel the summer slip inside me.” ― Bhuwan Thapaliya
“…it is summer and there is freedom, and time, and luck to be had.” ― Nina MacLaughlin
“Summer’s departure had given birth to a new season.” ― Soroosh Shahrivar
“Summer school holidays…Busy time for parents!” ― Steven Magee
“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.” ― Celia Thaxter
“Just living is not enough … one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” ― Hans Christian Anderson
“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.”
“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.” ― Hosea Ballou
“You are so much sunshine in every square inch.” ― Walt Whitman

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