Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

Jane Austen

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-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.

Edmund Spenser

Then came October, full of merry glee.

Austin O'Malley

Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.

Juvenal

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

Anthony Trollope

Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with grater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices?

Billie Joe Armstrong

She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

John Banville

What a little vessel of sadness we are, sailing in this muffled silence through the autumn dark.

Gina Martin

Single family housing starts, which correlate closely with changes in average mortgage rates, remain robust for now, ... We should start to see this series moderate in future months as higher mortgage rates keep a lid on borrower interest. However, mortgage rates have plenty of room to move before they even reach pre-recession levels. As a result, we may not see a slowdown in housing construction until the autumn months of this year.

Swiss Proverb

The poor lack much, but the greedy more

Bill Gurley

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

Steve Jaksa

We won the first two in this series, so now we want to get greedy and get the sweep.

Michael Shermer

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Charlie Pierce

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

Carl Nellis

So it's a legacy issue. What legacy do we want to leave? Are we greedy or are we worried about the future?

Stan Hyman

We accomplished what we wanted to come down here with the split, but when you sweep the first day you get a little greedy and want to get at least one of the two (contests) the next day.

Deb Caletti

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

Michael MacCambridge

The owners, as cantankerous as some of them are, and as singled-minded as some of them are and as greedy as some of them are, ultimately have respect for who Tagliabue is and what he has accomplished.

Demosthenes

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

Rob Clarke

We didn't harvest it, we didn't process it. We would never have knowingly distributed questionable material.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

John McGinnis

We could harvest day after day after day.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Dave Heineman

Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Bible Bible

If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.

Matthew McConaughey

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.