June famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 mould.
-- A. E. Housman -
On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.
-- Abby Sunderland -
I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back like Independence Day, with Jesus June 6. Like the movie, big mother ship and all, I'll be back.
-- Aileen Wuornos -
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
-- Al Bernstein -
Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.
-- Aldo Leopold -
The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.
-- Aldo Leopold -
There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.
-- Anais Nin -
At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.
-- Anais Nin -
I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.
-- Anais Nin -
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 -
Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
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 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 -
June Cleaver didn''t keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it.
-- Barbara Billingsley -
This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
-- Ben Jonson -
A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.
-- Bill Buford -
In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock. In May, my staff worked with outside counsel and with the Senate ethics committee staff to draft a written communication to the trustees. After obtaining pre-approval by mid-June from the Senate ethics committee, I issued a letter directing my trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock in my family's trust.
-- Bill Frist -
This is a ridiculous heat wave 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 -
There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.
-- Bill Skarsgard -
It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.
-- Bill Vaughan -
There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
-- Billy Connolly -
In June, 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since,
-- Brian Chesky -
In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.
-- Brian Chesky -
In the case of some women, ***** take quite a bit of time. Before signing on with such a partner, make sure you are willing to lay aside, say, the month of June, with sandwiches having to be brought in.
-- Bruce Jay Friedman -
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 -
The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st
-- Carl Sagan -
I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
-- Carl Yastrzemski -
You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?
-- Carol Rifka Brunt -
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 -
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 -
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 -
It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire studio, we really did. We brought out lights, fake trees and decorated the place to get in the Christmas spirit. You'd leave the studio, and it'd be 100 degrees out in Nashville, but nonetheless, a great experience.
-- Dave Haywood -
In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it.
-- Denise Levertov -
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 -
Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!
-- Diane Duane -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.
-- Edward Thomas -
Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904
-- Edward Thomas -
It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life, the one I am leading today. Each morning the blue clock and the crocheted bedspread, the table with the Phone, the books and magazines, the Times at the door.
-- Elizabeth Hardwick -
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 -
I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.
-- Emilio Ambasz -
Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?
-- Emily Dickinson -
Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which were not small. A year and a half later, the community of broadcasters and viewers has multiplied hundreds of percent.
-- Emmett Shear -
Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and once more confronted the Patriot party with the whole problem of the revolution's future.
-- Francois Furet -
Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.
-- Gary Sinise -
It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.
-- George Lopez -
It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.
-- George W. Bush -
For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.
-- George Washington Cable -
It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.
-- George William Curtis -
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 -
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 -
June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.
-- Gladys Taber -
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 -
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 -
It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit my profile, then waited as the seating and controls rearranged themselves slightly, piezoelectric actuators humming. As I started to reverse out of the parking bay, the stereo began a soothing improvisation, flashing up a deadpan title: Music for Leaving Airports 11 June 2008.
-- Greg Egan -
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 -
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks -
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 -
The voice of one who goes before, to makeThe paths of June more beautiful, is thineSweet May!
-- Helen Hunt Jackson -
Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up.
-- Helen Thomas -
The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and june these elemental presences lived and had their being...
-- Henry Beston -
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 -
After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.
-- Huey Lewis -
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 -
Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
-- Jack Adams -
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
-- James Agee -
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
-- James Russell Lowell -
No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.
-- James Russell Lowell -
Tell you what I like the best - 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine, - some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothin' else!
-- James Whitcomb Riley -
Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strewberries melts On the vine.
-- James Whitcomb Riley -
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 -
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.
-- Jeff Dunham -
Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer
-- Jenny Han -
The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.
-- John Buford -
There are only two ways for me to leave Chelsea. One way is in June 2010 when I finish my contract and if the club doesn’t give me a new one. It is the end of my contract and I am out. The second way is for Chelsea to sack me. The way of the manager leaving the club by deciding to walk away, no chance! I will never do this to Chelsea supporters.
-- Jose Mourinho -
My term ends in June 2004 and I have no intention to change that,
-- Joseph Estrada -
If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific] war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer.
-- Joseph Grew -
I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.
-- Jurgen Klinsmann -
Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.
-- Karen Joy Fowler -
I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
-- Kelly Ripa -
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
-- Lane Evans -
What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.
-- Lee Child -
It's June in January Because I'm in love It always is spring in my heart with you in my arms.
-- Leo Robin -
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 labour members, of whom I was one.
-- Leon Jouhaux -
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 -
A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing...
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery -
My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum..
-- Marc Chagall -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Hi," he says. "I'm Daniel." "Hi," I reply. "I'm June.
-- Marie Lu
