celebrate summer

Ten great summer quotes:

"Celebrate summer--sun-drenched days and starlit nights."
- Gooseberry Patch

"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

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

"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

"Summer is where the girls go barefoot and their hearts are just as free as their toes."
- Unknown

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

"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

“People take pictures of the summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to prove that it really existed.”
- Ray Davies

“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

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