Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Gabaldon

I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the best parts. It didn't matter that he couldn't love me, that had nothing to do with it. But if I couldn't forgive him, then I could not love him, and that part of me was gone. And I found eventually that I wanted it back." ({Lord John, Drums of Autumn}

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 . . .

John Banville

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Now the autumn shudders In the rose's root. Far and wide the ladders Lean among the fruit. Now the autumn clambers Up the trellised frame, And the rose remembers The dust from which it came. Brighter than the blossom On the rose's bough Sits the wizened orange, Bitter berry now; Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.

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?

William Shakespeare

The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.

Juvenal

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

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!)

Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.

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.

Hugo Claus

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

Adam Gopnik

The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.

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.

Terry Teachout

Century-old records are the closest thing we have to a time machine. To listen to the voice of Theodore Roosevelt or the piano playing of Claude Debussy is to feel the years falling away like autumn leaves from a maple tree.

Jim Nantz

Chris Schenkel was a giant. As a boy, I would listen to him. When a game would get really exciting in the fourth quarter, he would say, 'Is there a better way to spend an autumn afternoon?'

My earliest recollection of the Giants was on a Sunday morning in the autumn of 1925,

Edwin Arlington Robinson

The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face.

Edmund Spenser

Then came October, full of merry glee.

Anna Akhmatova

Let whoever wants to, relax in the south, And bask in the garden of paradise. Here is the essence of north—and it's autumn I've chosen as this year's friend.

Albert Schweitzer

The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

D. H. Lawrence

The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

D. H. Lawrence

It's autumn ... and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.

Chuck Palahniuk

Now is the autumn of our ennui.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun The day, though bough with bough be overrun. But with a blessing every glade receives High salutation.

Dan Millman

Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow, signaling the later days of autumn.

Rob Andrew

I think it pretty much puts paid to the autumn internationals, so it will most likely be over two years that he hasn't played for England.

Rob Andrew

I think it pretty much puts paid to the autumn internationals,

Here we are now the first day of autumn and those lakes are a long way below where they should be, and we do need to be thinking about an electricity shortage in winter.

Lesley Garrett

Last autumn I made a programme about the history of the Strauss family and of the waltz, which involved a trip to the beautiful city of Vienna.

Rob Andrew

He needs a fantastic pre-season and a great two months leading into the Autumn internationals. If you have seen what I have seen in the last three weeks, you will know this guy is a class act.

The grants will enhance open space and environmental resources and create urban and suburban corridors for more hiking, biking and horseback riding opportunities, ... Autumn is a beautiful time of year to get out and experience nature at its best.

Both pitchers pitched a great game. Autumn was awesome again. She's going into extra innings and leaving it all out on the field. She pitched really, really well.