A Commonplace Book

Category: June...

  • enough June cherries set aside for winter crisp, pies, cobblers, and loaf bread
  • It's June in January because I'm in love. (L. Robin)
  • June is bustin' out all over. (O. Hammerstein II)
  • And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days. (JR Lowell)
  • If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance. (B. Williams)
  • There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand. (C. Morgan)
  • 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)
  • June is named after Juno, the Roman goddess of childbirth and fertility
  • Gemini, pearl, rose, Cancer
  • June is probably derived from iuvenis "young" but is also linked to the goddess Juno.
  • To june a herd of animals is to drive them in a brisk or lively manner.

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