27 Quotes About Summer to Kick Off Your Vacation Adventures

Summer is officially (and unofficially) almost upon us! Here in Florida, the summer weather kicked in back in March with warm weather and longer evenings. As soon as the time changed, it seems like summer hit. If you’re up north, though, you’re probably looking forward to that summer vacation. And we have 27 of the best quotes about summer to inspire your summer adventures and get you in that sunshine state of mind.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. -Albert Camus

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. -Celia Thaxter

Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. -Wallace Stevens

Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me. – Benjamin Alire Saenz

In summer, the song sings itself. -William Carlos Williams

Summertime is always the best of what might be. -Charles Bowden

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. -Hosea Ballou

A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about. -John Mayer

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. -Langston Hughes

Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in sunshine. -Oprah

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of Light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. -Bryan Procter

A life without love is like a year without summer. -Swedish proverb

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. -Robert Bridges

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. -Maud Hart Lovelace

Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you’d never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper – something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season – and so memories stir and startle. -Nancy Gibbs

Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon. -C. Day Lewis

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. -Russell Baker

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. -Sam Keen

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do something 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

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, it’s long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. -Hal Borland

Everybody should have the right to wear flip-flops in summer. -Sarah Carter

The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain. -Gary Zukav

Alas, summer sun can’t last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale. -Sarah MacLean

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

Americans are really in love with their summertime. -Elin Hilderbrand

What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn’t matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn’t have learned any other way. -Nancy Gibbs

What did you think about these summer quotes? Do you have a favorite? Let us know in the comments which is the quote about summer you love the most, and share your vacation plans to inspire others in our Wander Florida community!