Quotes About July

Celebrating the lazy days of summer

Kiki Wellington
I quote, therefore I am.

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Long, hot days. Lazy vacations. Looking for ways to beat the heat. Now that we’re in July, summer is heating up in full swing. These quotes are to celebrate the month.

1. “July is not only a season of the year; it is a season of the mind and memory. Hot days and sultry nights and crashing thunderstorms are a part of July, and to the drone of bees in the clover fields will soon be added the high-pitched sibilance of the cicada. The tang of ripe cherries and the sweetness of sunning hay….”
-Hal Borland

2. “Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers.”
-Sara Coleridge

3. “The Summer looks out from her brazen tower,
Through the flashing bars of July.”
-Francis Thompson

4. “But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter.”
-Joanna Franklin Bell

5. “In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can’t drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on…

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