Here are some quotations about summer for your scrapbook pages, cards and projects. Maybe they’ll even give you new ideas for how you approach your summer pages. In addition to the quotes, I’ve also rendered a few of the quotes as printable word art.
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Download pdf for printing – page 1 in color and page 2 in black and white
Download zipped png for including on your digital scrapbook pages
- In summer, the song sings itself. -William Carlos Williams
- Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. -Sam Keen
- What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. -Jane Austen
- Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -Henry James
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. –Russell Baker
- Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. -Hal Borland
- Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne. -Barry Cornwall - Summer makes a silence after spring. -Vita Sackville-West
- It will not always be summer: build barns. -Hesiod
- The summer night is like a perfection of thought. -Wallace Stevens
- Do what we can, summer will have its flies. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- The hum of bees is the voice of the garden. -Elizabeth Lawrence












Thanks so much Debbie,
I can’t wait to use these! I’d love to know which font you used for “do what we can” and “ah, summer”!!
Glad you like! the font is
FFF Tusj at dafont http://www.dafont.com/fff-tusj.font
thank you!!
Thank you for the great quotes and word art! I linked to this page from today’s scrapbook news at http://bit.ly/bEwgiL
Thanks Debbie! Love the humor – summer is too short and too much fun for gloomy sayings!
thanks, Raylene, My son was helping me pick out quotes and I was trying to convey to him that our collection needed to have its own certain personality — but it’s hard to put into words what that is. glad you like the humor
I love quotations–that you for sharing these. I especially like the second to last one–too true. :)
You’re welcome!