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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• 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 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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• June is bustin' out all over.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Summer, Months

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

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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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• 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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• June is the gateway to summer.

  Jean Hersey

  Summer, Gateways

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Now summer is in flower and natures hum
  Is never silent round her sultry bloom
  Insects as small as dust are never done
  Wi' glittering dance and reeling in the sun
  And green wood fly and blossom haunting bee
  Are never weary of their melody
  Round field hedge now flowers in full glory twine
  Large bindweed bells wild hop and streakd woodbine
  That lift athirst their slender throated flowers
  Agape for dew falls and for honey showers
  These round each bush in sweet disorder run
  And spread their wild hues to the sultry sun.

  John Clare

  Summer, Running, Sweet

  John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell (2004). “Major Works”, p.135, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• 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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• There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

  Billy Connolly

  Travel, Winter, Scotland

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• The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.

  George Croly

  Summer, Flower, Jewels

  George Croly, Richard DAGLEY (1822). “Gems, principally from the antique, drawn and etched by Richard Dagley ... With illustrations in verse, by the Rev. G. Croly”, p.34

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• In winter I get up at night
  And dress by yellow candle-light.
  In summer quite the other way,
  I have to go to bed by day.
  
  I have to go to bed and see
  The birds still hopping on the tree,
  Or hear the grown-up people's feet
  Still going past me in the street.
  
  And does it not seem hard to you,
  When all the sky is clear and blue,
  And I should like so much to play,
  To have to go to bed by day?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Spring, Winter

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Bed in Summer" l. 1 (1885)

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• How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Birthday, Summer

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• All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

  Robert Browning

  Rose, Bounds

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.239, Wordsworth Editions

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