June Quotes - Page 15

• When I was 66, my wife June died of cancer. Two years later--a year and a half ago--I married Kristen McMain, the eternal companion who now stands at my side.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Cancer, Years, Two

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• Those who flashin' don't blast, they still buffoons,
  Just blowin out hot air, they should fill balloons.
  I'm like them shorties that could kill for goons,
  They started hustlin' in April to cop wheels in June.

  Elzhi

  Rap, Air, Hip Hop

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• I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Sacrifice, Effort

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• The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

  Enid Blyton

  Children, Swimming, Animal

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• In June the bush we call
  alder was heavy, listless,
  its leaves studded with galls,
  growing wherever we didn't
  want it.

  Denise Levertov

  Growing, Want, Heavy

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.97, New Directions Publishing

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• Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad - old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings - every bit of it.

  Bill Bryson

  Summer, Country, Sorry

  "Notes from a Small Island". Book by Bill Bryson, 1995.

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• The many varieties and wonderful colors of the modern dahlia make it a totally different flower from the one our grandmothers knew. The names are descriptive of the different varieties, and as there are so many of them, and they bloom from early in June or July until frost, a garden of dahlias might be very interesting.

  Helena Rutherfurd Ely

  Flower, Grandmother, Garden

  Helena Rutherfurd Ely (1911). “The Practical Flower Garden”

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• Democrat flaks jump on this like ducks on a June-bug, and in the process themselves reproduce the sick militarism of this culture that automatically valorizes anyone who wears a uniform. How dare you insult a soldier! Like its some sacred calling instead of an imperial employment program steeped in the culture of machismo and misogyny.(And you can gasp as theatrically as you want I spent more than two decades wearing a uniform that is exactly what it is.)

  Stan Goff

  Ducks, Two, Sick

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• You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two-year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later.

  Roger McNamee

  Beautiful, Iphone, Years

  "Can you be too optimistic?" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2009.

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• June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?

  Carl Bernstein

  Morning, Men, Editors

  Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein (2012). “All the President's Men”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire,
  What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn
  Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn
  Of death! Far sooner in midsummer tire
  The streams than under ice. June could not hire
  Her roses to forego the strength they learn
  In sleeping on thy breast.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Heart, Sleep, Loss

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1891). “A Calendar of Sonnets”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• Marching onward, marching onward
  Marching to that lovely tune
  Marching onward, marching onward
  Happy as a bird in June
  
  Sliding onward, sliding onward
  Listen to that rag
  Hop and skip now do that slow, oh
  Do that slow drag
  
  Dance slowly, prance slowly
  Now you hear that pretty rag
  Dance slowly, prance slowly
  Now you do the real slow drag
  
  Waltz slowly, waltz slowly
  Listen to the ragtime
  Hop and skip
  Now do the slow, oh, do the slow drag

  Scott Joplin

  Real, Bird, Lovely

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• I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors who count take responsibility for a map which is addressed to travellers of the earth, the world, and the spirit. Each issue is composed as a map of this land and this glory, images of our cities and of our politics must join our poetry. I want a nation in which discourse is active and scholarship is understood as it should be, the mode of our understanding and the ground of our derivations.
  -Robin Blaser (June 3, 1967)

  Robin Blaser

  Believe, Responsibility, Issues

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• Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for the local Masonic lodge halls. It was a tight-knit community, and the support and success the act enjoyed here enabled them to hit the road and make it in big-time vaudeville.

  Karen Abbott

  Kids, Rose, Community

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• It was a great challenge to reconstruct Gypsy Rose Lee life, and my interviews with her sister [June Havoc] proved invaluable. It's not often that writers have access to living primary source material; this was the only person who experienced life on the vaudeville circuit with Gypsy during the 1920s, and who saw her perform at Minsky's Burlesque in the 1930s. She knew things that no one else could ever possibly know.

  Karen Abbott

  Rose, Challenges, Vaudeville

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• The voice of one who goes before, to makeThe paths of June more beautiful, is thineSweet May!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Beautiful, Voice, May

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• I know you know the tale of Baby June You know the way she could deliver a tune She was a killer in a petticoat A little bit of everyone you adore... And if your baby let you down at night, Well Baby June would make it up alright And I was never happier Than in the arms and charms of her

  Terry Moore

  Baby, Night, Tunes

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• Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some day. We were both married to someone else at the time. ‘Ring Of Fire’—June and Merle Kilgore wrote that song for me-that’s the way our love affair was. We fell madly in love and we worked together all the time, toured together all the time, and when the tour was over we both had to go home to other people. It hurt.

  Johnny Cash

  Love, Song, Hurt

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• June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.

  Tupac Shakur

  Son, Rapper, Mama

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• Christmas hath a darkness;
  Brighter than the blazing noon;
  Christmas hath a chillness
  Warmer than the heat of June,
  Christmas hath a beauty
  Lovelier than the world can show:
  For Christmas bringeth Jesus,
  Brought for us so low

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, Jesus, Darkness

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.634, Delphi Classics

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• June laughs. "I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I've heard a lot about you." "I hear about you a lot too," Eden replies in a rush, "mostly from Daniel. He thinks you're really hot.

  Marie Lu

  Thinking, Eden, People

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• He loves so wholly. It is his nature. He blinks, then tries to find the right response. "I-" he stumbles. "I'm so afraid, June. So afraid of what might happen to-" I put two fingers against his lips to hush him. "Fear makes you stronger," I whisper. Before I can stop myself, I put my hands on his face and press my mouth to his.

  Marie Lu

  Two, Hands, Trying

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• So, when I thought June might take you away, I didn’t know what to do. I felt like she was taking everything that mattered to me. I felt like she was taking away from you all the things that I didn’t have. That’s why I’m sorry. I’m sorry because you shouldn’t have to be everything to me. I had you, but I’d forgotten that I had myself too.

  Marie Lu

  Sorry, Might, Forgotten

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• Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

  Dan Jenkins

  Funny, Basketball, Facts

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• A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Cold, Immoral

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.815, e-artnow

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