31 Quotes to Celebrate Summer

Today, June 21, 2023, is the first official day of summer! Who is ready for warm summer nights, bonfires, road trips, and everything else the season offers? Are you going to post your adventures on social media?  If you are searching for the perfect quotes to celebrate summer, check out the following.

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  1. “Summer means happy times and good sunshine.” – Brian Wilson
  2. “I wanna soak up the sun.” – Sheryl Crow
  3. “Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer.” – Unknown
  4. “Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and grow into selfless service. The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us.” -Paul Pitchford
  5. “A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.” – James Dent
  6. “If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.” – Bern Williams
  7. “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” – Langston Hughes
  8. “One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” – Henry David Thoreau
  9. “Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – Henry James
  10. “In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.” – Aldo Leopold
  11. “It’s summer and time for wandering…” – Kellie Elmore
  12. “If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.” – Katie Lee
  13. “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy, and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti
  14. “It’s like a beach blanket and a bottle of wine, it feels something like summertime.” – Bon Jovi
  15. “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
  16. “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” -Wallace Stevens
  17. “Ah, summer – that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It’s a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.” – Darrell Hammond
  18. “Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.” – Melissa Marr
  19. “Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” – Porgy and Bess
  20. “In summer, the song sings itself.” – William Carlos Williams
  21. “Winter is copper, autumn is bronze, spring is silver, and summer is gold.” -Matshona Dhliwayo
  22. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” -L. M. Montgomery
  23. “If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.” – Jimmie Buffett
  24. “Holler if you’re ready for some summer nights.” – Rascal Flatts
  25. “Hip, Hip, Hooray for the Hot Summer Day!” – Unknown
  26. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine…it’s summertime!” – Kenny Chesney
  27. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” – Charles Bowden
  28. “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
  29. “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
  30. “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability” – Sam Keen
  31. “Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.” – Kellie Elmore

Have a fantastic summer!

Author: Rebecca C.

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