Quotes About Autumn

October: that's when they pay off for playing ball.

O, it sets my heart a-clickin' like the tickin' of a clock,When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

In the room splashed with golden autumn light, they had drawn together, as close as eggs in a nest.

[A]utumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which has drawn from every poet, worthy of being read, some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling. She occupied her mind as much as possible in such like musings and quotations...

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider." [ Autumn ]

Autumn" Again the wind flakes gold-leaf from the trees and the painting darkens— as if a thousand penitents kissed an icon till it thinned back to bare wood, without diminishment. The Paris Review Issue 109, Winter 1988

And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...

a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.

Nothing is left in my memory of a summer that promised nothing. except the ominous end of it. But I remember clearly that autumn when darkness came to lend its cover to a killing season seeing at last these ill-at-ease petals estranged from moonlight and still related to it: outcasts of metal, of steel

He presented it with a length of string and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor to await the arrival of Autumn.

Leaves. Hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of them, brown and yellow and red and orange, in bright piles on the concrete floor. Some were so high they almost covered the rosebushes.

Shopping for clothes is time consuming, it's tiring, and it can feel like a waste of an autumn afternoon.

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

A long sweater, good boots, and stretchy jeans are my fall fashion must-haves.

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.

Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted.

Orange] is one of God's favorite colors--- He stuck it right there between red and yellow as the second color in the rainbow. He decorates entire forests with shades of orange every autumn. It shows up in sunrises at the start of the day, sunsets at the end of the day, and in the glow of the moon at the right time of night.

Quando, Lídia, vier o nosso Outono, com o Inverno que há nele, reservemos um pensamento, não para a futura Primavera, que é de outrem nem para o estio, de quem somos mortos, senão para o que fica do que passa o amarelo atual que as folhas vivem e as torna diferentes.

Conant in his 1943 secret history thought the "most important" reason the program changed direction in the autumn of 1941 was that "the all-out advocates of a head-on attack on the uranium problem had become more vocal and determined" and mentioned Oliphant's influence first of all.

Corría como si para ella fuera algo natural. Recordó el vuelo de los patos salvajes en otoño. Igual de fluido y uniforme. Le vino a la cabeza la palabra «hermosa» pero la rechazó y apresuró el paso hacia casa.

She ran as though it was her nature. It reminded him of the flight of wild ducks in the autumn.

In the fall when they burn the stubble off the fields the sun gets this dusty hazy color, and the mare's-tail clouds whipping along near Wakonda Head look like goldenrod bent over by the wind. It's always real pretty. You can almost hear it ring in the sky.

Even a man who is pure of heart And says his prayers at night May turn to a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright.

You will never be alone, you hear so deep a sound when autumn comes.