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Quotes About Equinox

Hij komt... De Schedelkoning... Er komt een grote aanval. De avond van de equinox... De Schedelkoning komt nog deze avond! - Livia
~ James Rollins
He shrugged. "It's always the Sunday following the first full moon that occurs after the spring equinox." Will took a minute to realize he was speaking English.
~ Karin Slaughter
The first day of spring is known as the vernal equinox. The equinox is special. It only happens twice a year, like a good night in ratings for NBC.
~ Craig Ferguson
I really like Benjamin from Sweden with 'Dance You Off,' and Equinox from Bulgaria with 'Bones' - and they were really great to interview at the London Eurovision Party.
~ Rylan Clark-Neal
People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There came time and then a slight pang at the thought of stepping off the earth that he loved so deeply, the work of the land and the beasts that made that work but also the small daily beauties of life, a summer shower on a hot day, snow whirling over the land in a flail of wind, the long spreads of geese across equinox skies, the workings of his own mind within but also around all such things as he made sense of his own works and questions and doubts.
~ Jeffrey Lent
May Day is the ancient festival of Beltane, the midway point between the vernal (spring) equinox and the summer solstice.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
Today is a cross-quarter day, halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. The sun is becoming an ever greater presence; the days are growing longer.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
Today the cosmic wheel turns and opens fully to the West. The hours of light and dark are exactly equal on this first day of fall.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
Lammas, or Teltane, is a cross-quarter day midway between summer solstice and fall equinox.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
The year swung past the fulcrum of another equinox.
~ Anthony Doerr
Nwt. Her name is the basis of English words such as nocturnal, night and equinox.
~ Roy Jackson
The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
~ Sir Thomas Browne
The equinox came. The Christians celebrated the death feast of their God while we lit the vast fires of Beltain
~ Bernard Cornwell
1793, the year was now divided in 12 months renamed after nature and the seasons. Each month counted three equal 10-day periods, and the additional 5 days found the year were de facto holidays. But the name of the months
~ Frank White
My husband says spring will be early.He says this every year, And every year I disagree.He needs me, the dark side of the planetary equation.Together we make the equinox.
~ Lisel Mueller, Alive Together
September... where fall and summer meet.
~ Will Wallace Harney
Of autumn months September is the prime, Now day and night are equal in each clime, The twelfth of this Sol rises in the Line, And doth in poising Libra this month shine...
~ Anne Dudley Bradstreet
Where lurk the merry elves of autumn now, In this bright breezy month of equinox?...
~ John Todhunter, "In September"
It was the kind of timeless evening in Louisiana when spring and fall and winter and summer come together in a perfect equinox, so exquisite and lovely that the dying of the light seems a violation of a divine ordinance. It was an evening that was wonderful in every way possible.
~ James Lee Burke
She was a bright disc in him that left him sun-spun. She was circular, light-turned, equinox-sprung. She was season and movement, but he had never seen her cold. In winter, her fire sank from the surface to below the surface, and warmed her great halls like the legend of the king who kept the sun in his hearth.
~ Jeanette Winterson
My husband says spring will be early. He says this every year, And every year I disagree. He needs me, the dark side of the planetary equation. Together we make the equinox.
~ Lisel Mueller
An agent named Dillon Koch picked them up at the Staten Island terminal in a Chevy Equinox, a small gray SUV picked, Koch said, for its anonymity. "You look at it, and you don't see it," he said.
~ John Sandford
After all, the Jewish historian Josephus maintains the world was created in the autumn, at the autumn equinox. A reasonable notion, since of course there were fruits in paradise; given the apple hanging from the tree, it must indeed have been autumn…
~ Olga Tokarczuk