1. It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!

- Kenny Chesney

2. Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me.

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

3. Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.

- Helen Keller

4. In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.

- John Steinbeck

5. Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

- Henry James

6. A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.

- John Mayer

7. August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

- Sylvia Plath

8. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

9. 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 Lubbock

10. There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

- Celia Thaxter

11. I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.

- Susan Branch

12. One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.

- Henry David Thoreau

13. I am more myself in a garden than anywhere else on earth.

- Don Green

14. One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

- Jeanette Walls

15. When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

- Wilma Rudolph

16. All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.

- L.M. Montgomery

17. When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

- Aimee Friedman

18. Summertime is always the best of what might be.

- Charles Bowden

19. The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

- Wallace Stevens

20. We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us.

- Jenny Uglow

21. Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.

- Kellie Elmore

22. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

- William Shakespeare

23. A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

- Robert Orben

24. In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky.

- Mungo Jerry

25. It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.

- Anna Godberson

26. Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me.

- Unknown

27. I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

- Edna St. Vincent Mallay

28. Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

- Brian Wilson

29. What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

- John Steinbeck

30. Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.

- Bryan Procter

31. 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, The Great Gatsby

32. You are so much sunshine in every square inch.

- Walt Whitman

33. In summer, the song sings itself.

- William Carlos Williams

34. Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

- C. Day Lewis

35. If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.

- Evelyn Waugh