Ready, set, summer! Whether you’re reading this and the warm weather is in full swing or it’s quickly approaching, there’s nothing like getting outside and basking in the summer sun. Summer officially begins on June 21st and is known as the summer solstice, estival solstice, or midsummer. This is the time of year when one of the earth’s poles reaches its maximum tilt toward the sun. Inspired by the summer solstice and the beginning of one of the best times of the year, we’re sharing ten of our favourite summer quotes.
Summer Solstice Quotes
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
– Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib
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“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”
– K.D. Lang
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“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”
– Anna Godbersen, Bright Young Things
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“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
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“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
– L.M. Montgomery
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“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
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“Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.”
– Van Morrison
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“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
– Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty
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“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
– Henry James
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“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
– George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones
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