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12 Summer Quotes to Celebrate the Splendor of the Season
Boone, NC
Monday, June 08, 2009
 
It's here once again...let's enjoy the start of the season with these inspirational summer quotes.

Setting up lemonade stands, splashing in pools, riding bikes until dusk, the summers of our youth fill our heads as the lazy days of summer begin. Can you smell the grills being fired up? Can you feel the warmth of the air brushing across your cheek? Check out these summer quotes and get in the swing of the season.

1. "What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade" ~Gertrude Jekyll

2. "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass" ~Rupert Brooke

3. "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time" ~John Lubbock

4. "Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language" ~Henry James

5. "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

6. "Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability" ~Sam Keen

7. "A life without love is like a year without summer" ~Swedish Proverb

8. "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows" ~St. Francis of Assisi

9. "Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun" ~Kahlil Gibran

10. "Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, who could ask for more?" ~Bev Adams

11. "The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me" ~James Russell Lowell

12. "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

Enjoy the long days followed by the short nights of the summer. Get outside and smell the scents and feel the heat of summer. Spend the evenings playing with friends and chasing the fireflies. Let these summer quotes inspire you to enjoy each and every summer day.

For more inspirational quotes, check out the popular inspirational quotes section at Famous-Quotes-And-Quotations.com, a website that specializes in 'Top 10' lists of quotations in dozens of categories.
 
Noel Jameson
Boone, NC
815-642-0460
 
 
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