A dozen lovely, inspiring quotations about July.
"If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead." Roald Dahl
"Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August." Jenny Han
“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
"Summer afternoon - to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." Henry James
"My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July." Rick Bass
“July is a blind date with summer.” Hal Borland
"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams." Hosea Ballou
"The summer night is like a perfection of thought." Wallace Stevens
“I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicada lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder.” Terri Guillemets
“By July, a damp Southern heat had settled down on the town like warm sweet syrup.” Marti Healy
"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." Sam Keen
“July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden.” Jean Hersey