13 Quotes That Celebrate Summer

Yes, I know most people mark the beginning of summer at Memorial Day, even though the calendar insists it’s officially June 21st. But for me, as a teacher and a mom, it begins the afternoon of the day school lets out. Squeee! That’s only a few days away.
In celebration of summer, I’d like to share some of my favorite quotes about this much-awaited season.

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1. (We’ll start with a bit of humor.) Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work 13 times an hour, she can hurt you. --Erma Bombeck
2. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer`s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, this is by no means a waste of time. --John Lubbock
3. Then follows that beautiful season: summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscapelay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4. Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all is right with the world. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
5. The summer night is like a perfection of thought. --Wallace Stevens
6. 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
7. If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. --Bern Williams
8. Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. - - Diane Ackerman
9. People take pictures of the summer. Just in case someone thought they had missed it. And to prove that it really existed. –- Ray Davis
10. Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, who could ask for more? -- Bev Adams
11. People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. --Anton Chekhov
12. Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -- -Henry James
13. In summer, the song sings itself. -- William Carlos Williams

Are you eager to plunge into summer ? Do you have a favorite summer quote? Leave a comment and let me know. Thanks.

Sources
http://www.quotegarden.com/summer.html
http://www.quotelucy.com/keywords/summered-quotes.html
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/summer/3.html
http://www.great-inspirational-quotes.com/summer-quotes.html