These June quotes will inspire you. June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the second of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the third of five months to have a length of fewer than 31 days.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging June quotes, June sayings, and June proverbs.
Best June Quotes
- “In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” ~ John Steinbeck
- “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
- “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
- “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
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“June is bustin’ out all over.” ~ Oscar Hammerstein II
- “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” ~ Al Bernstein
- “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
- “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” ~ Maud Hart Lovelace
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“June is the gateway to summer.” ~ Jean Hersey
- “It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” ~ Pablo Neruda
- “If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.” ~ Bernard Williams
- “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
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“June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children’s hands with posies.” ~ Sara Coleridge
- “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
- “It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “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
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“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.” ~ James Russell Lowell
- “Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “And since all this loveliness can not be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.” ~ Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
- “To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk-in June” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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“The flowers are Nature’s jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.” ~ George Croly
- “The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.” ~ Dan Simmons
- “I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role.” ~ Gerard Butler
- “May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it’s time for work to begin.” ~ H. Peter Loewer
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“All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.” ~ M. F. K. Fisher
- “If I had Aladdin’s lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, ‘Give me the first day of June.” ~ Gladys Taber
- “AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.” ~ James Russell Lowell
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“I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.” ~ Carl Yastrzemski
- “A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labor members, of whom I was one.” ~ Leon Jouhaux
- “There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.” ~ Billy Connolly , June quotes seasons
- “PeacefullyThe quiet stars came out, one after one; The holy twilight fell upon the sea, The summer day was done.” ~ Celia Thaxter
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“How did it get so late so soon?” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There’s something very powerful about finding snow in summer.” ~ Andy Goldsworthy
- “Sometimes the snow comes down in June, sometimes the sun goes around the moon.” ~ Vanessa L. Williams
- “There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.” ~ Charles Morgan
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“Do not the bright June roses blow To meet thy kiss at morning hours?” ~ William C. Bryant
- “I feel that I can’t do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really – I’ve been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did – 20-year hiatus we had – and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won’t do.” ~ Barbara Billingsley
- “I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.” ~ Jan Schakowsky
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“I received my parents’ permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.” ~ Jack Adams
- “The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.” ~ Edward Burnett Tylor
- “The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.” ~ Godfried Danneels
- “Until the June 1967 war, I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.” ~ Edward Said
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“I always stressed that I didn’t have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.” ~ Jurgen Klinsmann
- “I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in ‘The New Leave It to Beaver.’ She did. Sure, she was a councilwoman. She went to work. She wasn’t a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.” ~ Barbara Billingsley
- “This is a ridiculous heatwave we’re in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air.” ~ Bill Maher
- “Even people that know Johnny Cash’s music really well and know that he was married don’t really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.” ~ Reese Witherspoon
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“I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.” ~ Reese Witherspoon
- “I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.” ~ William Standish Knowles
- “A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.” ~ Grace Napolitano
- “I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me” ~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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“June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.” ~ Robert Kirkman
- “Well, I’ve been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.” ~ Gary Sinise
- “Long about knee-deep in June,
‘Bout the time strawberries melts
On the vine.” ~ James Whitcomb Riley - “To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.” ~ Reese Witherspoon
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“June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter’s cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mold.” ~ A. E. Housman
- “No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.” ~ James Russell Lowell - “Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.” ~ Hal Borland
- “People stopped me on the street and said ‘I can’t live up to you.’ Of course, they’re referring to June Cleaver.” ~ Barbara Billingsley
- “I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self-consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.” ~ Pierre Loti
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“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” ~ Anton Chekhov
- “O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October’s bright blue weather.” ~ Helen Hunt
- “The sneer is gone from Casey’s lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey’s blow.
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville, mighty Casey has struck out.” ~ Ernest Thayer - “A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.” ~ Dennis Ritchie
