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

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

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

Summer is the topsy-turvy season when the goldfish have to be boarded out while the family goes on a fishing trip. ~Author Unknown

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.  ~Sam Keen

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

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

You can never appreciate the shade of a tree unless you sweat in the sun.  ~Author Unknown

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

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.  ~Billy Graham

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