63 July Quotes To Celebrate The Summer Season

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These July quotes will help you give three cheers for the red, white, and blue. Southerners love the month of July for many reasons. It's the perfect time of year to enjoy a day by the pool or a mouthwatering barbecue spread, and summer vacations, porch parties, and picnics are only made better by celebratory 4th of July fireworks. And celebrate, we shall.

With July comes Independence Day—a holiday dedicated to honoring "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave." Caption your favorite July memories at the beach or on the lake, and celebrate summer fun with a memorable saying. Let these July quotes inspire you to commemorate the summer season like never before.

01 of 08

Quotes Celebrating July

July Quote About Magic — Southern Living

“July is a blind date with summer.” —Hal Borland
"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
"The summer looks out from her brazen tower, through the flashing bars of July." —Francis Thompson
"Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers." —Sara Coleridge
“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
“It’s July and I have hope in who I am becoming.” —Charlotte Eriksson
"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
"Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August." —Jenny Han
"If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead." —Roald Dahl
"If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end." —Sarah Dessen
"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
“Then came July like three o'clock in the afternoon, hot and listless and miserable.” —Allie Ray
"Autumn frosts have slain July." —Lewis Carroll
“July, with its days of blue skies and time that seemingly stands still, holds a special place in my heart.” —Daisaku Ikeda

02 of 08

Joyful Summer Quotes

Quote about girls having fun in the sun — Southern Living

"Girls just wanna have sun." —Unknown
"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
"Let us live like flowers—wild and beautiful and drenched in sun." —Ellen Everett
"If you're not barefoot, then you're overdressed." —Unknown
"I'm sorry for the things I said when it was winter." —Unknown

03 of 08

Soothing Summer Quotes

Soothing July Quote By Ellie Elmore — Southern Living

"I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket." —Kellie Elmore
"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." —Sam Keen
"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
"The summer night is like a perfection of thought." —Wallace Stevens
"Summer afternoon—to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." —Henry James
"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year." —Edna St. Vincent Millay
"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

04 of 08

Independence Day Quotes

Patriotic July Quote About Flags — Southern Living

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!" —Oliver Wendell Holmes
"No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July." —Mac Thornberry
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." —Abraham Lincoln
"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous." —Frederick Douglass
"Independence now and forever!" —Daniel Webster
“What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.” —Banana Yoshimoto

05 of 08

Patriotic Quotes

Patriotism Quote By James Bryce — Southern Living

"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong." —James Bryce
"I think patriotism is like charity—it begins at home." —Henry James
"The essence of America, that which really unites us, is not ethnicity or nationality or religion. It is an idea, and what an idea it is—that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things." —Condoleezza Rice
"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom." —Bob Dylan
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." —John F. Kennedy
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” —Arthur Ashe

06 of 08

Motivational Quotes About Freedom

Franklin Roosevelt Quote About Freedom — Southern Living

"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." —Franklin D. Roosevelt
"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." —William Faulkner
"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." —Albert Camus
"With freedom comes responsibility." —Eleanor Roosevelt
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." —Nelson Mandela
“In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.” —Amy Tan
"From every mountainside, let freedom ring." —Martin Luther King Jr.
"Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit." —Ronald Reagan
"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" —Oscar Wilde
"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right." —Peter Marshall
"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." —Elmer Davis
“I’d like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be also free.” —Rosa Parks

07 of 08

Liberty Quotes

Liberty Quote by George Bernard Shaw — Southern Living

"Liberty is the breath of life to nations." —George Bernard Shaw
"Give me liberty or give me death!" —Patrick Henry
"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness." —Louis D. Brandeis
"Liberty, once tasted, is an incurable addiction." —Richelle E. Goodrich
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." —Benjamin Franklin

08 of 08

Quotes That Celebrate America

Quote About America By Ralph Waldo Emerson — Southern Living

"America means opportunity, freedom, power." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
"America, to me, is freedom." —Willie Nelson
"America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor." —Paul Tsongas
"Dreams are the foundation of America." —Lupita Nyong'o
"America is another name for opportunity." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.” —Barack Obama
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” —Bill Clinton

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