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Quotes About June

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
309Knee-high by the Fourth of July. So it must be June. Every farmhouse in its cloud of trees. There is a way trees stir before a rain, as if they already felt the heaviness. It all just went on and on, the United States of America. It was so easy to forget that most of the world was cornfields.
~ Marilynne Robinson
If all the months and all their days could be like June weather in New York, there would be paradise on earth. Often, in early June, momentous decisions are made, power waxes strong, quick wars are fought, and love affairs are begun and ended.
~ Mark Helprin
The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.
~ Shirley Jackson
June is a bad month for bugs in Alaska; generally it takes a good five or ten knots of breeze to keep them at bay, but even then they will tend to hover in your lee, waiting for the wind to die. Mosquitoes swarm so thickly up there that they can, like clouds, briefly form recognizable shapes. This is probably the only circumstance in nature where it is possible to look downwind and see a shadow of oneself infused with one's own blood.
~ John Vaillant
These are the days when Birds come back—A very few—a Bird or two—To take a backward look.These are the days when skies resumeThe old—old sophistries of June—A blue and gold mistake.
~ Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
June would always be Charlotte's favorite month on Quinnipeague. She loved the frothy roil of the sea as it recovered from a day of rain, and in those early mornings, before the fog lifted and sun warmed the island, there was nothing, nothing better than a wood fire, wool socks, and hot chocolate made from scratch.
~ Barbara Delinsky
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
~ Jack Adams
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
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
Throughout June 13 Churchill worked at No. 10 Annexe on his second broadcast, helped first by his son-in-law Duncan Sandys, and then by his son Randolph.123 During his speech, as his daughter Sarah had suggested, Churchill elaborated on the Four-Year Plan. 'I announced
~ Martin Gilbert
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
The garden was at its best that first week in the month of June. The peonies were more opulent than usual and I walked slowly through the green light on the terrace above the white river, enjoying the heavy odor of peonies and of new roses rambling in hedges.
~ Gore Vidal
I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend.
~ Casey Wilson
How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
~ Dr. Seuss
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
A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August. Everyday we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes.
~ Mary Oliver
This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Beatrice. I just like B and that's all. I was named after the month of Junie. 'Cause Junie is the month I was born in, of course! And wait till you hear this! Yesterday, I finally had my birthday!
~ Barbara Park
a damp June morning Emma accompanied them
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
Alla fine di giugno Pietro Gallesio diede la parola alla doppietta.
~ Beppe Fenoglio
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
~ Bern Williams
He was more handsome than a June day.
~ Beverly Jenkins
an odor of June mud, backwashed with essence of meadow-grass and a whiff of cow.
~ Gregory Maguire