June Quotes - Page 11

• I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Names, Frogs

  Emily Dickinson, Isabelle Arsenault (2008). “My Letter to the World and Other Poems”, p.20, Kids Can Press Ltd

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• A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Flower, Night, Ice

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Jane Eyre (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.286, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.

  Walter Alston

  Summer, Winter, Bother

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• This report has been difficult to write because it involves something that doesn't officially exist. It is well known that ever since the first flying saucer was reported in June 1947 the Air Force has officially said that there is no proof that such a thing as an interplanetary spaceship exists. But what is not well known is that this conclusion is far from being unanimous among the military and their scientific advisors because of the one word, proof; so the UFO investigations continue.

  Edward J. Ruppelt

  Military, Writing, Air

  Edward J. Ruppelt (2011). “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: The Original 1956 Edition”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Clouds, Air

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Heart may still be the fire in hearth but I'm suddenly too cold to continue, and besides, there's no hearth here anyway and it's the end of June. Thursday. Almost noon. And all the buttons on my corduroy coat are gone. I don't know why. I'm sorry Hailey. I don't know what to do.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Sorry, Heart, Fire

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• I was thinking the first thing we should do is Expelliarmus, you know, the Disarming Charm. I know it's pretty basic but I've found it really useful -" "Oh please," said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and folding his arms. "I don't think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do you?" "I've used it against him," said Harry quietly. "It saved my life last June." Smith opened his mouth stupidly. The rest of the room was very quiet. "But if you think it's beneath you, you can leave.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Thinking, Rolling

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• She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.

  Anais Nin

  Fall, Winter, Shoes

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• And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Hands, Kitchen

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.165, Penguin

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• You drive me insane June. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because I'm trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don't you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you.

  Marie Lu

  Clever, People, Insane

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• The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!

  J. K. Rowling

  Fate, Practice, Giving

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• Even the weather seemed to be celebrating; as June approached, the days became cloudless and sultry, and all anybody felt like doing was strolling onto the grounds and flopping down on the grass with several pints of iced pumpkin juice, perhaps playing a casual game of Gobstones or watching the giant squid propel itself dreamily across the surface of the lake.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lakes, Games, Weather

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• After her came jolly June, arrayed
  All in green leaves, as he a player were;
  Yet in his time he wrought as well as played,
  That by his plough-irons mote right well appear.
  Upon a crab he rode, that did him bear,
  With crooked crawling steps, an uncouth pace,
  And backward rode, as bargemen wont to fare,
  Bending their force contrary to their face;
  Like that ungracious crew which feigns demurest grace.

  Edmund Spenser

  Spring, Player, Iron

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• The country ever has a lagging Spring,
  Waiting for May to call its violets forth,
  And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring,
  Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth;
  To put their foliage out, the woods are slack,
  And one by one the singing-birds come back.
  
  Within the city's bounds the time of flowers
  Comes earlier. Let a mild and sunny day,
  Such as full often, for a few bright hours,
  Breathes through the sky of March the airs of May,
  Shine on our roofs and chase the wintry gloom-
  And lo! our borders glow with sudden bloom.

  William C. Bryant

  Country, Spring, Flower

  William Cullen Bryant, “Spring In Town”

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• I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Lying, If There Is A God

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., July 2, 1945.

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• My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- And I wish somebody'd shoot him.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Heart, Wind

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the direct train to Auschwitz that had taken her parents away forever. Sorry for what? he had retaliated, why should I, an American, feel sorry, hadn't my fellow countrymen freed France in June 1944? I had nothing to be sorry for, he laughed. I had looked at him straight in the eyes. Sorry for not knowing. Sorry for being forty-five years old and not knowing.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Sorry, Taken, Eye

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• Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

  George Santayana

  Summer, Nature, Fate

  George Santayana (1967). “Animal Faith and Spiritual Life”, Irvington Pub

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• The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Winter, Blood

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.53

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• This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.

  Jacques Pepin

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.

  Billy Graham

  Love, Summer, Flower

  Billy Graham (2011). “The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life”, p.149, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Everything for me has happened so quickly. I finished shooting 'The Blind Side' not this past June, but the June before, and all of sudden up to now, it seems like it's gone from zero to 60 for me. I feel so fortunate to be able to say that.

  Lily Collins

  Zero, Past, Gone

  "Lily Collins Feels The 'Momentum' Going Into 2011". Interview with Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I was glamorous because of magicians like George Folsey, James Wong Howe, Oliver Marsh, Ray June, and all those other great cinematographers. I trusted those men and the other experts who made us beautiful. The rest of it I didn't give a damn about. I didn't fuss about my clothes, my lighting, or anything else, but, believe me, some of them did.

  Myrna Loy

  Beautiful, Believe, Men

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• Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003 five justices consigned them to another generation - or, perhaps, a term of indefinite duration - of virtual enslavement to the past.

  Ward Connerly

  Past, Justice, Black

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• When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  War, Years, Leader

  "1967: Our rights have to be recognised" by Ismail Haniyeh, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2007.

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