Short Summer Quotes

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  • The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

    Summer   Spring   Sunset  
    Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan
  • Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

    Summer   Mother   Hurt  
  • The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

    Summer   Wind   People  
    Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books
  • A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

    Summer   Mean   Winter  
    Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Blood”, p.197, Penguin
  • August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.

    Summer   August   Years  
  • But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

    Sonnet 18
  • 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.

  • Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

    Summer   Butterfly   June  
    Pablo Neruda (2007). “100 Love Sonnets”, p.83, Exile Editions, Ltd.
  • The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night.

    Summer   Dream   Morning  
    Isak Dinesen (2011). “Winter's Tales”, p.37, Vintage
  • 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.

    Love   Marriage   Summer  
    John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.245, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

    Sonnet 18
  • Now is the winter of our discontent.

    'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1
  • That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

    Summer   Sunshine   June  
    Maud Hart Lovelace (2011). “Betsy-Tacy and Tib”, p.11, Harper Collins
  • I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library
  • When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.

    Summer   Kids   Bird  
  • The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

    Summer   August   Years  
    Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan
  • it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

    Summer   Wine   Kissing  
    Song: Summertime, Album: The Road And The Radio, 2005
  • Linus: It was a short summer, Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown: And it looks like it's gonna be a looong winter.

    Summer   Winter   Looks  
  • What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

    Summer   Winter   Weather  
  • In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being.

    Summer   Real   Night  
  • Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!

    Life   Summer   Time  
    Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon (1811). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, p.184
  • If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

    Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.81, Penguin UK
  • 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.

    Summer   Sunshine   Tree  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.481, e-artnow
  • So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

    Love   Eye   Men  
    Sonnet 18
  • Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

    Beautiful   Summer   Time  
    Quoted in Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934)
  • Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

    Summer   Spring   Wind  
    Sonnet 18
  • Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.69, Bantam
  • Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.

    Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
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