Quotes and Sayings about June
"For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies."
- June Allyson
(Related: Life, Time, Babies, First)
"The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me."
- June Allyson
(Related: Music)
"The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold."
- June Allyson
(Related: Home, Day, First)
"So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting."
- June Allyson
(Related: Music, Friend, Husbands, Study, Talk, Wives)
"It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played."
- June Allyson
(Related: First)
"I'm not a career woman."
- June Allyson
(Related: Career, Woman)
"I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies."
- June Allyson
(Related: Home, Babies)
"I don't like to fight."
- June Allyson
(Related: Fight)
"Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert."
- June Allyson
(Related: Music, Wealth, Excitement, Film, Fun)
"I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras."
- June Allyson
(Related: Television)
"Now I believe that people need to understand what's happening in my campaign, and they're going to get three or four snapshots of that, with plenty of time before the first disclosure happens in June."
- Craig Benson
(Related: Time, People, First, June, Now)
"Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June."
- Al Bernstein
(Related: God, Act, Being, June, Spring)
"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
(Related: June, Years)
"I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job."
- Barbara Billingsley
(Related: Work, Job, June, Woman)
"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
(Related: People, June)
"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
(Related: June, Summer)
"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
(Related: Men, Behavior, Bravery, Extreme, July, June, Night, Zeal)
"During the whole campaign, from June 27 to July 31, there has been no shirking or hesitation, to tiring on the part of a single man so far as I have seen; the brigade commanders reported none."
- John Buford
(Related: Commanders, Hesitation, July, June)
"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
(Related: Fact, June, Months, October, Singing)
"Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end."
- June Carter
(Related: Day)
"One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Car, Love, Time, Thought, Driving, Night, Right)
"We wanted to slow down. But one would let us."
- June Carter Cash
"This is the bunch of songs I did first, and it's just the type of thing I do. I am a Carter Family girl, so the record is book-ended with Carter Family songs."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Family, First, Songs)
"After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better."
- June Carter Cash
"Inside that book, it's my life-all the places where I'm hurting or I laughed or I cried or I prayed. And I've had to pray a lot!"
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Life)
"I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Character, Liberty, Sense)
"I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Marriage, Sense)
"For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Months)
"He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Life, Mother, Father, Fame, Man, Walking)
"I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Life, Brother)
"It depends on how Johnny's feeling... If we go back on the road, we will go together. I'll go where he goes, and he'll go where I go."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Feeling, Road, Will)
"I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Family, Home, Time, Songs)
"We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: War)
"I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Thought, Regret, Right)
"I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Romance, Husband)
"What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all."
- Lee Child
(Related: June, Midnight, Nothing, Sun)
"It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Europe, July, June, Russia, Vice, Will)
"When the government is handed over to the Iraqi Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil unrest may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly depart, but Iraq needs to step up to the plate on 30 June."
- Howard Coble
(Related: Government, Americans, Iraq, June, May, Needs)
"There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter."
- Billy Connolly
(Related: June, Seasons, Winter)
"We have ourselves to answer for."
- Jennie June Croly
"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
(Related: Boston, College, Disaster, June, Murder, Sense, Victims, Word)
"World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war."
- Lane Evans
(Related: History, Time, War, June, World, World war)
"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures."
- M. F. K. Fisher
(Related: People, June, Moon, Wine)
"I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography."
- June Foray
(Related: Autobiography, Writing)
"Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella."
- June Foray
(Related: Disney)
"When they came to you for your line, you had to be ready and you had to get it in one."
- June Foray
"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
(Related: June, May, Snow, Summer)
"All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: June, Now)
"You are all you will ever have for certain."
- June Havoc
(Related: Will)
"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: People)
"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: People, Company, June, Linux, October, Office, Want)
"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
(Related: First, June, Months)
"This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September."
- Jesse James
(Related: June)
"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
(Related: Beauty, Time, Fulfillment, June, Months, Promise, Summer, Will)
"There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth."
- June Jordan
(Related: Beauty, Truth, Words, Worry)
"One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!"
- June Jordan
(Related: Thought, Colors, Students, Want)
"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."
- June Jordan
(Related: America, Nation, Property, Reason, Violence)
"So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders."
- June Jordan
(Related: Poetry, People, Leaders, Manipulation)
"That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes."
- June Jordan
(Related: Attitude, Activism, Enemy, Fighting)
"The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat."
- June Jordan
(Related: Car, Society, Father, Children, Property)
"The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet."
- June Jordan
(Related: Music, Time, Language, Obvious, Writing)
"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."
- June Jordan
(Related: Love, Truth, Value)
"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant."
- June Jordan
(Related: Father)
"The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think."
- June Jordan
(Related: Poetry, Truth, First)
"Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law."
- June Jordan
(Related: Sister, Brother, Habits, Language, Law, Lying, Schools, Self, Speech, Writing)
"It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me."
- June Jordan
(Related: World)
"In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way."
- June Jordan
(Related: Truth, Deep)
"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."
- June Jordan
(Related: Travel, People, Being, Country, Poems, Years)
"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
- June Jordan
(Related: Being)
"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."
- June Jordan
(Related: Life, Love, Fact, Meaning, Respect, Self)
"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
- June Jordan
(Related: Nonviolence)
"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
- June Jordan
(Related: People, Mercy)
"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
- June Jordan
(Related: Friendship, Freedom, Mothers)
"Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?"
- June Jordan
(Related: Love, Freedom, Man, Want, Woman)
"Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth."
- June Jordan
(Related: Poetry, Truth, Act)
"My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair."
- June Jordan
(Related: Father, Fight, Fighting, Reason)
"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
(Related: June, Propaganda)
"We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart."
- Wynonna Judd
(Related: Heart, June, Losing)
"The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June."
- Janis Karpinski
(Related: End, First, July, June, Mission)
"June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope."
- Robert Kirkman
(Related: Battle, June)
"Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis."
- Stephen Cole Kleene
(Related: Time, June, Years)
"I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9."
- Jurgen Klinsmann
(Related: Experience, Coaching, June)
"I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford."
- William Standish Knowles
(Related: June)
"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
(Related: Day, June, Man, May)
"It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it."
- June Lockhart
(Related: Day, Events, Newspapers, Press, Quotes, Reading, Research)
"I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years."
- June Lockhart
(Related: Funny, Years)
"I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.'"
- June Lockhart
(Related: Want, Years)
"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
(Related: Consciousness, Day, Feeling, June, Past, Self, Terror)
"And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Day, June)
"That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out."
- Shelby Lynne
(Related: Music, People, Character, Influence, June)
"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
(Related: June, Now, Right, Will)
"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
(Related: Earth, June, Moments, Nothing, Wine)
"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
(Related: Benefits, June, Office, Will)
"I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war."
- Douglass North
(Related: Peace, War, Beliefs, June, World, World war)
"Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence."
- Nam June Paik
(Related: Technology, Body, Existence, Reality, Skin)
"The future is now."
- Nam June Paik
(Related: Future, Now)
"Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life."
- Nam June Paik
(Related: Life, War, Progress, Jobs, Modesty)
"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
(Related: Time, June)
"Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications."
- Mike Rogers
(Related: Beginning, June)
"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
(Related: Life, Politics, Travel, War, Beginning, English, June)
"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
(Related: American, Disaster, June)
"How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"
- Dr. Seuss
(Related: Time, December, Goodness, June, Night)
"Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them."
- June Singer
(Related: Opposites, Trying)
"Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being."
- June Singer
(Related: Being)
"Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing."
- June Singer
(Related: Life, Car, People)
"The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others."
- June Singer
(Related: Life, First)
"Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November."
- Gary Sinise
(Related: Iraq, June, Now)
"The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution."
- June L. Trapp
(Related: Idea, Conflict, Law, Liberal, Resolution)
"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
(Related: April, Journey, June, March, May, Months)
"The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'."
- June Whitfield
(Related: Age, Middle age, Word, Youth)
"If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance."
- Bern Williams
(Related: Romance, June, Night, Talk)
"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
(Related: Family, Religion, Values, Culture, June, Play, Spirituality, Woman)
"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
(Related: Music, People, Performance, June)
"I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning."
- Reese Witherspoon
(Related: Beginning, June, Sound, Trying)
"Jeane Dixon tells us that May and June are going to be pretty bad. June may be worse than May. But everything will turn out to be fine and to be of stout heart and all that."
- Rose Mary Woods
(Related: Heart, June, May, Pretty, Will)
"I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June."
- Carl Yastrzemski
(Related: June, May)