“Then followed that beautiful season called summer, filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Evangeline, 1847
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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“St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain; St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair, for forty days 'twill rain no more.”
Traditional English Proverb · July 15 folk saying, documented widely before 1800
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
L.M. Montgomery · Anne of Green Gables, 1908
“A kind word is like a spring day.”
Russian Proverb
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James · As quoted by Edith Wharton in A Backward Glance, 1934
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
John Steinbeck · Travels with Charley, 1962
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
Sam Keen
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
Jeannette Walls · The Glass Castle, 2005
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
William Shakespeare · Sonnet 18, c. 1609
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
Maud Hart Lovelace · Betsy-Tacy, 1940
“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”
James Russell Lowell · The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848
“You can't control what people think of you. You can only control your effort and your attitude.”
Jalen Brunson · NBA press conference, 2023
