July is probably one of the best months of the year many look forward to. It is the month where Independence Day is celebrated in the U.S. Families and friends gather to share delicious food and enjoy beautiful fireworks. We know you also love July not only because you get to celebrate your freedom, but also because of the memories you make with your loved ones. Here are July quotes we compiled to make this month extra special for you!
July Quotes
1. We can’t possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name’s become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth. It has no day. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The morning heat had already soaked through the walls, rising up from the floor like a ghost of summers past. – Erik Tomblin
3. Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves. – Betty Friedan
4. 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
5. I took him to the river and said “let’s watch something drown,” So he took a stone and I took my necklace and we threw it all together, the way I always think I will get better in July. Things will change and sounds won’t ache and I gave my heart to uncertainty so many times, and so I took him to the river, threw the necklace in the river to slowly watch it drown, or burn, or fade away like I’ve done so many times. – Charlotte Eriksson
6. 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
7. 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
8. It strikes me that the spirit of the Fourth, this year, was used up by September’s end and fell like an early leaf. – William H. Gass
9. July, that lovely hell, all velvet dresses and drapes stuffed into a hot little hole. – Laura Kasischke
10. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks 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
11. Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. – Ronald Reagan
12. Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. – Neil Armstrong
13. Fame is a funny thing. I like doing normal things. I like going to fairs. I like going to ball games. I like going to Disney World or a big field on the Fourth of July and having picnics with friends. The problem is you’re either worried you’re going to be recognized, or you’re thankful you’re not. It’s always there. – Chris Evans
14. Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat. – Gene Simmons
15. 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
16. Why are video games so violent? The ones I’ve seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment. – Madeleine M. Kunin
17. 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.
18. No one’s gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March. – Earl Weaver
19. If you look at tailgating, everyone does it. It’s for everyone who likes to cook outdoors. It could be a 4th of July picnic. – John Madden
20. The people in ‘July, July’ do find themselves looking backward, talking to others and to themselves about those over-the-cliff, fork-in-the-road moments in their lives. I imagine this is what must happen at a 30th college reunion. – Tim O’Brien
21. Don’t worry, the fans don’t start booing until July. – Earl Weaver
22. A career high was when I did a cover for ‘W Magazine’s July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true. – Joan Smalls
23. When I was little I thought, isn’t it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it’s July 4th. – Gloria Stuart
24. 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
25. Summer at the Hollis household is all about us getting together and enjoying the pool, and Fourth of July is probably one of my favorite holidays to do just that. – Rachel Hollis
26. Watching everybody have such a fantastic time, loving life, loving America – I wish that was the feeling year-round, that it didn’t take the Fourth of July for us to be like, ‘Yeah, America is awesome.’ – Tim Kennedy
27. The summer looks out from her brazen tower, Through the flashing bars of July. – Francis Thompson
28. There are lots of emotions that go with the fourth of July. – Dan Harmon
29. Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat. – Gene Simmons
30. Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. – Russel Baker
31. The serene philosophy of the pink rose is steadying. Its fragrant, delicate petals open fully and are ready to fall, without regret or disillusion, after only a day in the sun. It is so every summer. One can almost hear their pink, fragrant murmur as they settle down upon the grass: ‘Summer, summer, it will always be summer.’ – Rachel Peden
32. Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. – Edward Moore
33. The Summer looks out from her brazen tower. Through the flashing bars of July. – Francis Thompson
34. Mosquito is out, it’s the end of the day; she’s humming and hunting her evening away. Who knows why such hunger arrives on such wings at sundown? I guess it’s the nature of things. – N. M. Boedecker
35. For him in vain the envious seasons roll. Who bears eternal summer in his soul. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
36. He stood beside a cottage lone. And listened to a lute. One summer’s eve, when the breeze was gone. And the nightingale was mute. – Thomas K. Hervey
37. No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones 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
39. Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world. – Ada Louise Huxtable
40. Many public-school children seem to know only two dates: 1492 and 4th of July and as a rule they don’t know what happened on either occasion. – Mark Twain
41. Do what we can, summer will have its flies. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. Hot July brings cooling showers. Apricots and gillyflowers. – Sara Coleridge
43. That beautiful season the Summer. Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light. And the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
44. The linden, in the fervors of July hums with a louder concert. When the wind sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime. As when some master-hand exulting sweeps the keys of some great organ, ye give forth the music of the woodland depths, a hymn of gladness and of thanks. – William Cullen Bryant
45. The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me. – James Russell Lowell
46. Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. – Diane Ackerman
47. There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter – albeit with less convenience. – Nora Ephron
48. We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. In lang, lang days o’ simmer. When the clear and cloudless sky refuses ae weep drap o’ rain to Nature parched and dry. The genial night, wi’ balmy breath, gars verdue, spring anew. An’ ilka blade o’ grass keps its ain drap o’ dew. – James Ballantine
50. Grass is the cheapest plant to install and the most expensive to maintain. – Pat Howell
51. Along the river’s summer walk. The withered tufts of asters nod. And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod. – John Greenleaf Whittier
52. People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. – Anton Chekhov
53. Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
54. Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. – Ronald Reagan
55. This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. – Elmer Davis
56. One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
57. The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. – Mike Fitzpatrick
58. Liberty is the breath of life to nations. – George Bernard Shaw
59. Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness. – Louis D. Brandeis
60. Independence now and forever. – Daniel Webster
61. Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. – Abraham Lincoln
62. Where liberty dwells, there is my country. – Benjamin Franklin
63. Freedom lies in being bold. – Robert Frost
64. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination. – Harry S. Truman
65. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. – Woodrow Wilson
66. With freedom comes responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt
67. America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor. – Paul Tsongas
68. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. – William Faulkner
69. Give me liberty or give me death. – Patrick Henry
70. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. – Martin Luther King Jr.
71. Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation. – Hillary Clinton
72. America means opportunity, freedom, power. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
73. Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. – Adlai Stevenson
74. We will stand by the right, we will stand by the true, we will live, we will die for the red, white, and blue.
75. We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something—for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to. – Ronald Reagan
76. America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels. – Claudia Pemberton
77. America is a tune. It must be sung together. – Gerald Stanley Lee
78. Dreams can grow wild born inside an American child. – Phil Vassar
79. May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely than this our own country. – Daniel Webster
80. What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. – J. Sidlow Baxter
81. Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. – Ray Kroc
82. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
83. A person who is not weaker than his weakness is the actual man of success. – Kishan Chandra Verma
84. It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. – Henry Ford
85. Don’t keep your dreams in your eyes; they may drop down as tears. Keep them in your heart so that every heartbeat reminds you to fulfill your desire.
86. You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. – Les Brown
87. If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price. – Bud Wilkinson
88. What’s important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied. – Tony Dungy
89. To be an achiever in life, do not do what the rest do but rather, do what the best do. – T.A.S.
90. Examine all things, while continuing to move forward. Nothing waits behind but the past and everything lies ahead with an open mind. – Elisha Spires
91. Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the ‘right stuff’ to turn our dreams into reality. – James Womack
92. It’s never late to start and it’s never too late to restart too. – Deepti Agrawal
93. Fear: good highlighter, bad advisor. – C. Virgil
94. Vision is the key to a better future. – Sheye Hassan
95. Regardless of what others say, you don’t have to be patient with your vision. – Donald Manning
96. Even in the dark a little star shines, so let each day be your masterpiece of light. – Spencer Chapman
97. Better to fight for something than live for nothing. – George Patton
98. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage. – Teddy Roosevelt
99. This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. – Elmer Davis
100. America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. – Ronald Reagan
101. America is the spirit of human exploration distilled. – Elon Musk
102. 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
103. Liberty is the breath of life to nations. – George Bernard Shaw
104. If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. – Ronald Reagan
105. A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. – Bob Dylan
106. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. – Thomas Jefferson
107. I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. – Abraham Lincoln
108. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. – Harry S. Truman
109. Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. – Mark Twain
110. In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed, it must be achieved. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
111. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson
112. The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government. – Thomas Paine
113. The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it. – Thomas Edison
114. Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. – John F. Kennedy
115. I love my freedom. I love my America. – Jessi Adams
116. An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory. – Millard Fillmore
117. We don’t need a new idea. There is an idea. That idea is called America and it still works. – Marco Rubio
118. My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. – Abraham Lincoln
119. We don’t know them all but we owe them all.
120. I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. – John Kerry
121. America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. – Adlai Stevenson
122. Where liberty dwells, there is my country. – Benjamin Franklin
123. God Bless America, my home, sweet home. – Irving Berlin
124. There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America there’s the United States of America. – Barack Obama
125. I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. – Abraham Lincoln
126. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. – George Bernard Shaw
127. Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. – John Dickinson
128. America means opportunity, freedom, power. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
129. Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. – John Dickinson
130.The individuals who hope to procure the favors of opportunity, must, similar to men, experience the weariness of supporting it. – Thomas Paine
131. True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded. – Eleanor Roosevelt
132. The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. – James Madison
133. Liberty is the breath of life to nations. – George Bernard Shaw
134. One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation forevermore. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
135. Flexibility has its life in the hearts, the activities, the soul of men thus it must be every day earned and invigorated – else like a bloom cut from its nurturing roots, it will shrivel and pass on. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
136. Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. – John F. Kennedy
137. We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless. – Lech Walesa
138. I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. – Wendell L. Wilkie
139. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. – Bill Clinton
140. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. – John F. Kennedy
141. Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. – James Bryce
142. Freedom is more than what you think it is.
143. Freedom lies in being bold. – Robert Frost
144. 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
145. It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. – Maud Hart Lovelace
146. 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
147. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. – Jenny Han
148. When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person. – Aimee Friedman
149. August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. – Sylvia Plath
150. The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. – Natalie Babbitt
151. Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine. – Bruno Schulz
152. Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing. – Truman Capote
153. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. – Roman Payne
154. Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. – Pablo Neruda