Embrace the Sunshine: 50 Summertime Inspirational Quotes

"Summertime, and the livin’ is easy."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet."

- Bob Marley

"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

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

- Brian Wilson

"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

"Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August."

- Jenny Han

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

- Susan Branch

"Summertime and the livin’ is easy."

- Porgy and Bess

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

- Celia Thaxter

"It's a new dawn, It's a new day, It's a new life for me. And I'm feeling good."

- Nina Simone

"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

"I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

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

- Charles Bowden

"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

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair..."

- Susan Polis Schutz

"It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine... it's summertime!"

- Kenny Chesney

"Oh when I look back now / That summer seemed to last forever / And if I had the choice / Yeah, I’d always wanna be there / Those were the best days of my life."

- Bryan Adams

"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

"I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June."

- L.M. Montgomery

"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

"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

"I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket."

- Kellie Elmore

"Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds."

- Regina Brett

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

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

"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

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

- Kellie Elmore

"It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside."

- Maud Hart Lovelace

"Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit."

- Ada Louise Huxtable

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

- Henry James

"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong."

- John Cheever

"In summer the song sings itself above the muffled words."

- William Carlos Williams

"Sweet days of summer, the jasmine’s in bloom / July is dressed up and playing her tune."

- Seals and Crofts

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

- Evelyn Waugh

"I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose."

- Emily Dickinson

"Summer’s here and the time is right / For dancing in the street."

- Martha and the Vandellas

"The lovely thing about real happiness is that it is there all of a sudden, unexpected, weightless as a little summer cloud and just as radiant and intangible."

- Vicki Baum

"I can’t wait to fall in love with you / You can’t wait to fall in love with me / This just can’t be summer love, you’ll see."

- Justin Timberlake

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- John Steinbeck

"A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows."

- St. Francis of Assisi

"Celebrate summer—sun-drenched days and starlit nights."

- Gooseberry Patch

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

- Wallace Stevens

"In summer, the song sings itself."

- William Carlos Williams

"Some of the best memories are made in flip flops."

- Kellie Elmore

"Summer arrives with the morning sun. Beach time breezes in with endless fun."

- Debasish Mridha

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

- Evelyn Waugh

"'Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about."

- John Mayer

"And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling."

- Shanti

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

- C. Day Lewis

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

- Henry James

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

- Bryan Procter

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

- Dough Greene

"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."

- Natalie Babbett

"How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door."

- Emily Dickinson

"Summer is delicately made. While it is, it is ceasing."

- Genevieve Taggard

"Paradise is a state of mind / Where mother nature nurtures and man is kind / We need a change now wouldn’t it be nice / If we could bring back summer."

- The Beach Boys

"I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer—its dust and lowering skies."

- Toni Morrison

"Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night."

- Hal Borland

"It’s summer and time for wandering…"

- Kellie Elmore

"If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance."

- Bern Williams

"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

"A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter."

- Patricia Briggs

"To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall."

- Ann Patchett

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

- Anna Godbersen

"Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns."

- Marty Rubin

"I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment."

- Lucy Stone

"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

"The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year—the days when summer is changing into autumn—the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change."

- E.B. White

"If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end."

- Sarah Dessen

"Yellow butterflies look like flowers flying through the warm summer air."

- Andrea Willis

"A good swimming pool could do that—make the rest of the world seem impossibly insignificant, as far away as the surface of the moon."

- Emma Straub

"Swim through the serene summer sky."

- Virgil

"September tries its best to have us forget summer."

- Bern Williams

"Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, / As summer clouds flash forth electric fire."

- Samuel Rogers

"Sometimes I wonder what I’m gonna do / But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues."

- Eddie Cochran

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

- Jeannette Walls

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

- Unknown

"Summer: Hair gets lighter. Water gets warmer. Nights get longer. Life gets better."

- Unknown

"School’s out. Scream and shout!"

- Unknown

"Pack your bags; fill your days; summer is for adventures in a million ways."

- Unknown

"There is no ‘we’ in summer. Only ‘u’ and ‘me’."

"Salt in the air, sand in my hair."

"The tans will fade but the memories will last forever."

"Hip, Hip, Hooray for the Hot Summer Day!"