1William C. Bryant
The Pioneer Woman“July is like the sunniest hour of the day.”
2Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Pioneer Woman“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.”
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3Wallace Stevens
The Pioneer Woman“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
4Sarah Dessen
The Pioneer Woman“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.”
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5Mac Thornberry
The Pioneer Woman“No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.”
6Cecil Day-Lewis
The Pioneer Woman“In June we picked the clover, and sea-shells in July: There was no silence at the door, no word from the sky.”
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7F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Pioneer Woman“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.”
8Morgan Harper Nichols
The Pioneer Woman“Let July be July. Let August be August. And let yourself just be even in the uncertainty. You don't have to fix everything. You don't have to solve everything. And you can still find peace and grow in the wild of changing things.”
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9Banana Yoshimoto
The Pioneer Woman“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.”
10Laura Kasischke
The Pioneer Woman“July, that lovely hell, all velvet dresses and drapes stuffed into a hot little hole.”
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11Lily Williams
The Pioneer Woman“We can just let July be July, let the sun hang in the sky, clear your mind of all the things you're waiting on.”
12Roald Dahl
The Pioneer Woman“If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.”
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13Marti Heal
The Pioneer Woman“By July, a damp Southern heat had settled down on the town like warm sweet syrup.”
14Aspen Matis
The Pioneer Woman“We spent June and July in the Rockies, growing stronger, feeling feral in the untamed range of mountains.”
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15Martin Luther King Jr.
The Pioneer Woman“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.”
16Larry the Cable Guy
The Pioneer Woman“Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show – in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.”
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17Dan Harmon
The Pioneer Woman“There are lots of emotions that go with the 4th of July.”
18Benjamin Alire Saenz
The Pioneer Woman“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me.”
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19Ann Voskamp
The Pioneer Woman“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...”
20Earl Weaver
The Pioneer Woman“I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.”

Josiah is the Digital Content Producer for the commerce team at Popular Mechanics, Best Products, Runner’s World, and Bicycling Magazine. He also writes for “BIO Buys”—a column on Biography.com—giving readers the lowdown on what products their favorite celebs are using. In another life, Josiah was an editor at ThePioneerWoman.com, where he sharpened his expertise on all things lifestyle, food-news, and entertainment. Outside work related matters, he’s a fan of Studio Ghibli films, unimportant reality TV drama, and melancholy Lorde songs.
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