100 Amazing July Quotes That Evoke The Beauty Of Summer

When I think of July, I close my eyes and feel a light and warm summer breeze, the taste of iced coffee and sand in my toes. I see myself on a beach, surrounded by my favorite people, just chilling and enjoying summer.

I also feel the smell of fresh watermelon and I can hear the waves. Seriously, what’s better than this?

As you can see, this article is all about the month of July, more precisely, it brings you a fantastic list of no less than 100 July quotes I collected from various online sources!

If you enjoy summertime as much as I do, you’ll definitely love these inspirational quotes!

Let’s get started!

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10 Best July Quotes

You can read tons of July quotes on the world wide web, but these are my top 10 picks:

1. “If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.” – Roald Dahl

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

3. “I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.” – Michael Faudet

4. “When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” – Wilma Rudolph

5. “If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.” – Sarah Dessen

6. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” – Jenny Han

7. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz

8. “Thinking back to when it’s warm outside. Oh, why couldn’t Christmas be in July?” – Haley Mary Artzab

9. “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

10. “It’s July and I have hope in who I am becoming.” – Charlotte Eriksson

Welcome July Quotes

Are you excited each time July’s just around the corner? I believe you are! Read on to discover loads of welcome July quotes:

1. “The Summer looks out from her brazen tower, through the flashing bars of July.” – Francis Thompson

2. “July is a month of change and wonder, giving us the chance to see what we cannot always find.” – Unknown

3. “It’s been too long since the last rain. Still the stars sizzle hot in the sky. And there, undressed in the shadows, stands my sweet Cherie, hiding from July.” – Hardline

4. “Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts… for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles… these things fill men’s hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting, but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul.” – Roman Payne

5. “The blazing summer heat has finally arrived, giving us a chance to enjoy the long-awaited sun and warmer temperatures. July is here!” – Unknown

6. “…and so many colors I will have seen… the menacing greys and pine greens, the soft pink and purples of spring, and summer blue, and so many others without you.” – Sanober Khan

7. “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

8. “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” – Wallace Stevens

9. “Some winters will never melt, some summers will never freeze, and some things will only

… live in poems.” – Sanober Khan

10. “They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.” – Bill Bryson

They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July. – Bill Bryson

11. “The summer demands and takes away too much. But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes.” – John Ashbery

12. “Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz

13. “My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.” – George R.R. Martin

14. “All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.” – L.M. Montgomery

15. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine… it’s summertime!” – Kenny Chesney

16. “I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl, from summer she is made, my lovely summer girl. I’d love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girl, but I’m never warm enough for my lovely summer girl. It’s summer when she smiles, I’m laughing like a child. It’s the summer of our lives; we’ll contain it for a while. She holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her hand. I’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.” – Maggie Stiefvater

17. “Oh, you had to change up the game, oh, the weather is not the same. Now there’s only cloudy days, can’t stand the rain in July. Oh July, there were fireworks explodin’, but now it’s getting colder, leaves are turning color. Why, it’s just not our season, the one and only reason. Baby oh, baby oh, our summer turned into fall.” – Drake

18. “I see the bright lights, it’s the month of July.” – Katatonia

19. “We broke up in July ’cause you lie to my face.” – CCT

20. “He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.” – John Burroughs

Inspirational Hello July Quotes

This sections brings you plenty of inspirational quotes on the hottest month of the year:

1. “Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – Henry James

2. “Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.” – K.D. Lang

3. “Another secret of the universe: sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz

4. “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 a hot July evening. So that’s just what you do, abandoning the car.” – Mary Quant

5. “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

6. “In the long dusks of summer, we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.” – Steven Millhauser

7. “This July is the perfect time for you to be social and connect with family, friends, and coworkers. Throw on your favourite shorts or sundress; head outside in search of a new adventure!” – Unknown

8. “No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from one’s own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.” – Eleanor Sinclair-Rhode

9. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” – John Lubbock

10. “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” – Sam Keen

11. “The July sky is a beautiful canvas of rainbows, lightning bolts, and foggy silhouettes.” – Unknown

12. “Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.” – C. Day Lewis

13. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck

14. “It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.” – Walter Winchell

15. “Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. “Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.” – Hosea Ballou

17. “Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.” – Kellie Elmore

18. “Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.” – Henry Rollins

19. “Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” – Brian Wilson

20. “Life is a summer, full of fun, at the beach, under the sun.” – Debasish Mridha

Brilliant Quotes About July

Looking for brilliant July quotes? Here you go:

1. “Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.” – Debasish Mridha

2. “A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.” – James Dent

3. “Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show – in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.” – Larry the Cable Guy

4. “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” – Patricia Briggs

5. “Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.” – Henry David Thoreau

6. “Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” – Dodie Smith

7. “Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

8. “In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the July night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. “Julia, I almost wish we were butterflies living an eternal summer. Today is the first day of August; it is no longer July. Summer passes, and summer friends will melt away like snow in spring.” – Rolf van der Wind

10. “If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.” – Katie Lee

11. “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…” – Susan Polis Schutz

12. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” – Charles Bowden

13. “In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.” – Sarah Dessen

14. “One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” – Jeannette Walls

15. “In summer, the song sings itself.” – William Carlos Williams

16. “Rejoice as summer should… chase away sorrows by living.” – Melissa Marr

17. “A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.” – Raymond Duncan

18. “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” – Kellie Elmore

19. “Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” – Russell Baker

20. “Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.” – Zooey Deschanel

Extraordinary July Quotes

Here you can find extraordinary quotes about July:

1. “The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.” – E. V. Lucas

2. “Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. “Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” – George R.R. Martin

4. “Being a traditionalist, I’m a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I’m already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.” – John Waters

5. “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

6. “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.” – Earl Wilson

7. “There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

8. “There’s just something about deviled eggs, whether it’s the summer around Fourth of July for a picnic or a big sit-down meal like Christmas or Easter, we always do that.” – Steve Doocy

9. “I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks to the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights, and the rivers that run and the stars that rise, and the rain that falls, and all the good things that a good God gives.” – Ann Voskamp

10. “Then came July like three o’clock in the afternoon, hot and listless and miserable.” – Allie Ray

11. “Long has paled that sunny sky: echoes fade and memories die: autumn frosts have slain July. Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies, never seen by waking eyes.” – Lewis Carroll

12. “July, that lovely hell, all velvet dresses and drapes stuffed into a hot little hole.” – Laura Kasischke

13. “We spent June and July in the Rockies, growing stronger, feeling feral in the untamed range of mountains.” – Aspen Matis

14. “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

15. “Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” – Porgy and Bess

16. “In June we picked the clover, and sea-shells in July: there was no silence at the door,

no word from the sky. A hand came out of August and flicked his life away: we had not time to bargain, mope, moralize, or pray.” – Cecil Day-Lewis

17. “Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.” – Edward Moore

18. “Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. For those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. Summer just opens the door and lets you out.” – Deb Caletti

19. “The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.” – China Miéville

20. “July is a blind date with summer.” – Hal Borland

The Fourth Of July Quotes

My collection ends with a selection of the Fourth Of July quotes. Let’s take a look:

1. “No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.” – Mac Thornberry

2. “We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs, but to secure liberty for their souls.” – Robert J. McCracken

3. “The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.” – Frederick Douglass

4. “I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don’t have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It’s always fun.” – James Lafferty

5. “There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.” – Dan Harmon

6. “Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend’s birthday is July fifth, so it’s always been a favorite holiday. It’s all about having a cooler full of sodas, hot dogs, and just hanging out and shooting off firecrackers, being low-key, watching the fireworks.” – Hilarie Burton

7. “My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.” – Frederick Reines

8. “We all know you can’t have a Fourth of July barbecue without the fixings that go with it.” – Rachel Hollis

9. “This, for the purpose of this celebration, is the 4th of July. It is the birthday of your National Independence, and of your political freedom.” – Frederick Douglass

10. “I grew up in New York City, and I’ve got wonderful memories of the Fourth of July fireworks.” – Jimmy Smits