Summer is a magical time.
Especially if you’re a kid. No school and endless warm days for adventures that make fond memories.
And in today’s post I’d like to help the children in your life – or you yourself, if you’re a child or teenager – to have the best summer yet by sharing the most positive, funny and inspirational summer quotes for kids.
I hope you’ll find something here to make this a happy, fun and wonderful summer season.
Summer Quotes for Kids to Make It a Happy Season
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
– Jenny Han
“Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.”
– Zooey Deschanel
“I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.”
– Jack McBrayer
“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
– Hans Christian Andersen
“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”
– Brian Wilson
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.”
– Debasish Mridha
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
– Kellie Elmore
“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”
– Wilma Rudolph
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.”
– Helen Keller
“Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.”
– Van Morrison
“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
– Celia Thaxter
“Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
– Maud Hart Lovelace
“I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.”
– Susan Branch
“I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
– Langston Hughes
“Rejoice as summer should… chase away sorrows by living.”
– Melissa Marr
“She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water.”
– Katie Daisy
“When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.”
– Taylor Swift
“Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.”
– Bob Marley
Funny Summer Quotes for Kids (and Some for Parents Too)
“You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It’s like a sauce!”
– Chris Pratt
“During summer vacation, you get to do all your favorite things; cook hot dogs over a campfire (while being eaten alive by mosquitoes).”
– Bruce Lansky
“Summer is finally here! School is out and I am kicking back my heels and watching the clouds go by.”
– Yvonne Martinez Ward
“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.”
– James Dent
“It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.”
– Anne Fadiman
“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.”
– Erma Bombeck
“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
– Walter Winchell
“Good weather all week, but come the weekend, and the weather stinks. When the weather is too hot, they complain; too cold, they complain; and when it’s just right, they’re watching TV.”
– Rita Rudner
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
– Russell Baker
“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.”
– Raymond Duncan
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”
– Mark Twain
“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
– Jane Austen
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin
“The average vacation is one-tenth playing – nine-tenths paying.”
– Arnold Glasow
“Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing.”
– Frank Tyger
Short Summer Quotes for Kids
“In summer, the song sings itself.”
– William Carlos Williams
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.”
– Regina Brett
“Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.”
– Kellie Elmore
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“We know summer is the height of being alive.”
– Gary Shteyngart
“I live for summer.”
– Sandra Boynton
“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
– John Mayer
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
– Charles Bowden
“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.”
– Katie Lee
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
– Wallace Stevens
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
– Jeannette Walls
“Sunshine and happiness go together like fish and chips!”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“It’s summer and time for wandering…”
– Kellie Elmore
“A kid with an ice cream that is starting to run and a sunny afternoon has everything they need to conquer the world.”
– Sandra Shea
“Every summer sunset is filled with such promise of even more glorious adventures tomorrow.”
– Jim Harper
“But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.”
– The Beatles
“It’s always summer somewhere.”
– Lilly Pulitzer
“In summer time to simply be.”
– Paul Laurence Dunbar
“Make use of the sun while it shines.”
– Danish Proverb
“Summer is a verb.”
– Lisa Birnbach
“If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.”
– A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Wonderful End of Summer Quotes for Kids
“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.”
– Sebastian Faulks
“Our one wish is that the summer never ends!”
– Paul Dini
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss
“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever.”
– E.B. White
“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.”
– Paul Monette
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
– William Shakespeare
“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.”
– Evelyn Waugh
“Here is the ghost of summer that lived for us. Here is a promise of summer to be.”
– William E. Henley
“Summer ends, and autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”
– Hal Borland
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
– Anton Chekhov
“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream, glides away.”
– Sarah Helen Whitman
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
– Sylvia Plath
“Summer will end soon and we will carry these memories into fall for joy and warmth.”
– Unknown
“…And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
– Oscar Wilde
“September tries its best to have us forget summer.”
– Bern Williams
“With all these lovely tokens of September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.”
– Helen Hunt Jackson
“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.”
– Terri Guillemets
“On the shore of nature’s magic, I dreamed summer knew no end.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
Want more inspiration for your summer? Then check out these funny summer quotes, the uplifting June quotes here and also this one with lots of short and beautiful summer quotes and sayings.