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Quotes About October

So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.
~ Kim Dae Jung
It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 years, a deterioration from light to darkness.
~ George Vecsey
In the first weeks of October, Citadel fought a two-front war against these enemies. It jettisoned assets that were not part of its main strategies, thus raising capital without telegraphing its distress too obviously.
~ Sebastian Mallaby
Halloween, the one night when we embrace the darkness from which all of America is descended. October is the gateway to the wonderful, mystical finale of the American year. A place where life ends and the celebration of life briefly begins.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
A thousand happy moments succumbed to history. It was the happiest hour of the year, worst time of our lives. I can still smell the ruins from that cold dark brute stormy October night.
~ Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
~ Helen Hunt
The circumstances, I felt, demanded it. The October jobs report, released three days after the election, was dismal: 240,000 jobs lost (revisions would later reveal that the true number was 481,000).
~ Barack Obama
already done." Molotov bitingly asked Zinoviev if he and Kamenev had been "brave in October 1917?" Zinoviev reminded them that not just Trotsky but Bukharin had opposed Brest-Litovsk in 1918, to
~ Stephen Kotkin
Serfdom's abolition in the Caucasus began three years later than in the rest of the Russian empire, in October 1864.
~ Stephen Kotkin
Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream...
~ Ernest Dowson
Gardeners are never wicked are they?' said Ruth. 'Obstinate and grumpy and wanting to be alone, but not wicked. Oh, look at that creeper! I've always loved October so much, haven't you? I can see why it's called the Month of the Angels.
~ Eva Ibbotson
Most of these guerrilla actions take place during daylight, but during the blinding full moon of October, when the night sky is bright, Indian raids take on a brand-new form of terror. This "Comanche Moon" period means attacks can come at any time. Wherever the Comanche raid
~ Bill O'Reilly
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place on October 26, 1881. It took about thirty seconds to write a chapter in American history that will never be forgotten.
~ Bill O'Reilly
This third day of October, 1942, is the first of a new era in transportation, that of space travel
~ Walter Dornberger
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
~ John Burroughs
O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
Somewhere it was written that October 18th is my birthday, and some people flew to Georgia to wish me! They came to my college, spoke to my professor, found out where I lived, and they were at my doorstep! I was shocked!
~ Sai Pallavi
You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.
~ Whitey Ford
At the end of the day, what people will give credit for is how Octobers turn out. That's how it works for Yankees managers.
~ Jessica Mendoza
In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.
~ Simon Newcomb
I can love October in September. September doesn't care.
~ Dean Koontz
I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
The cart was grotesque, and automatically attracted attention. A peasant was walking beside it. The cart listed sharply to one side and moved forward at a walking pace. And over all its groaning plunder hung the wet, leaden word "town"; it brought to life in the girl's head a number of images as fleeting as the cold October brilliance which flew along the street and fell upon the water.
~ Boris Pasternak
I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling. --from Cut, written 24 October 1962
~ Sylvia Plath