June Quotes

• In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Flower, Sunset

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.156, Penguin

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• June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Dark, World, Way

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• I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Summer, Would Be, World

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of the Island”, p.150, Gideon House Books

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• It is the month of June,
  The month of leaves and roses,
  When pleasant sights salute the eyes,
  And pleasant scents the noses.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Summer, Spring, Eye

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotation" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• That's life (that's life), that's what all the people say
  You're ridin' high in April, shot down in May
  But I know I'm gonna change that tune
  When I'm back on top, back on top in June

  Frank Sinatra

  People, Tunes, May

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• June is bustin' out all over.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Summer, Months

  "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" (song) (1945)

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• Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

  Al Bernstein

  Spring, Godly, Tough

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• What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Summer, Time, Spring

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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• It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Summer, Sunshine, Rose

  Maud Hart Lovelace (2011). “Betsy-Tacy and Tib”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• June is the gateway to summer.

  Jean Hersey

  Summer, Gateways

  Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”

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• It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Time, Bird

  Mark Twain (1998). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

  Pablo Neruda

  Summer, Butterfly, Light

  Pablo Neruda (2007). “100 Love Sonnets”, p.83, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

  Bernard Williams

  Love, Summer, Night

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• Then followed that beautiful season... 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

  Beautiful, Summer, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Penguin

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• In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

  Aldo Leopold

  Anniversary, Nature, Spring

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.82, Oxford University Press

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• June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
  Fills the children's hands with posies.

  Sara Coleridge

  Summer, Children, Hands

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1853). “Pretty Lessons in Verse, for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme”, p.10

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• It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Weather, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (1981). “Journal”, p.204, Princeton University Press

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• And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

  James Russell Lowell

  Perfect Days, Literature, Glisten

  "The Vision of Sir Launfal" prelude to pt. 1, st. 5 (1848)

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• Mine is the Month of Roses; yes, and mine
  The Month of Marriages! All pleasant sights
  And scents, the fragrance of the blossoming vine,
  The foliage of the valleys and the heights.
  Mine are the longest days, the loveliest nights;
  The mower's scythe makes music to my ear;
  I am the mother of all dear delights;
  I am the fairest daughter of the year.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Daughter, Mother, Spring

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1047, Delphi Classics

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• Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

  Joni Mitchell

  Love, Real, Moon

  Song: Both Sides, Now

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• Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Missing, Singing

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A bird in the boughs sang "June,"
  And "June" hummed a bee
  In a Bacchic glee
  As he tumbled over and over
  Drunk with the honey-dew.

  Clinton Scollard

  Summer, Drunk, Bird

  CLINTON SCOLLARD (1888). “OLD AND NEW WORLD LYRICS”

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• Oh that it were with me
  As with the flower;
  Blooming on its own tree
  For butterfly and bee
  Its summer morns:
  That I might bloom mine hour
  A rose in spite of thorns.
  
  Oh that my work were done
  As birds' that soar
  Rejoicing in the sun:
  That when my time is run
  And daylight too,
  I so might rest once more
  Cool with refreshing dew.

  Christina Rossetti

  Summer, Running, Flower

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.96, Delphi Classics

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• And since all this loveliness can not be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Summer, Heart, Heaven

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• To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Summer, Lovely, January

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