Happy First Day of Summer!

The summer solstice is the longest day of the year. On the first day of summer, the sun travels the longest path through the sky, and that day has the most daylight.

To celebrate the first day of summer and the summer solstice, here are some happy first day of summer quotes:

Happy First Day of Summer Quotes

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.  ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Summer’s lease hath all too short a date. ~ William Shakespeare

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. ~ Mark Twain

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. ~ John Keats.

Because it’s summer and the memories are just waiting to happen.  ~ Unknown.

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. ~ Maud Hart Lovelace

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

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

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ~ John Steinbeck.

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

 

 Oh, the summer night

Has a smile of light

And she sits on a sapphire throne.

~ Barry Cornwall

 

Do what we can, summer will have its flies. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. By F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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

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

 

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever. ~ Elizabeth von Arnim

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…  ~ Susan Polis Schutz

 

I question not if thrushes sing,

If roses load the air;

Beyond my heart I need not reach

When all is summer there.

~ John Vance Cheney

 

Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose. ~ Author Unknown

Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. ~ Charles Simic

If it could only be like this always—always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.   ~Evelyn Waugh

Summertime is always the best of what might be.   ~ Charles Bowden

Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne. ~ Bryan Procter

Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon. ~ C. Day Lewis

A life without love is like a year without summer. ~ Unknown.