Quotes About September

Out with summer, autumn marches in

Summer is holding on by a thread as autumn waits its turn to change the guard. It’s hard to believe it’s already September and most of this year is behind us. At the same time, I look forward to the upcoming holiday months and the opportunity to begin anew in another year right around the corner. These quotes celebrate the month that will usher in another season.

1. “There is a clarity about September. On clear days, the sun seems brighter, the sky more blue, the white clouds take on marvelous shapes; the moon is a wonderful apparition, rising gold, cooling to silver; and the stars are so big. The September storms…are exhilarating….” -Faith Baldwin

2. “That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air….Another fall, another turned page: There was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.” -Wallace Stegner

3. “But now in September the garden has cooled, and with it my possessiveness. The sun warms my back instead of beating on my head….The harvest has dwindled, and I have grown apart from the intense midsummer relationship that brought it on.” -Robert Finch

4. “Happily we bask in this warm September sun, Which illuminates all creatures….” -Henry David Thoreau

5. “By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.” -Helen Hunt Jackson

6. “September tries its best to have us forget summer.” -Bernard Williams

7. “Wine is the divine juice of September.” -Voltaire

8. “September was a thirty-days long goodbye to summer, to the season that left everybody both happy and weary of the warm, humid weather and the exhausting but thrilling adventures. It didn’t feel like fresh air either, it made me suffocate. It was like the days would be dragging some kind of sickness, one that we knew wouldn’t last, but made us uncomfortable anyway. The atmosphere felt dusty and stifling.” -Lea Malot

9. “Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul…but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” -Peggy Toney Horton

10. “I used to love September, but now it just rhymes with remember.” -Dominic Riccitello

11. “My favourite poem is the one that starts ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it actually tells you something.” -Groucho Marx

12. “September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf. It is the month of climax and completion. September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth and colour. It glows like old amber.” -Patience Strong

13. “O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf’s rustle and the squirrel’s laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.” -George Arnold

14. “Let’s all be nice to September.” -Nitya Prakash

15. “I love September, especially when we’re in it.” -Willie Stargell

16. “Let’s strive to be better in September!” -Charmaine J. Forde

17. “We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.” -Henry Rollins

18. “The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress and moving on.” -Lauren Oliver

19. “Remember to be your brother’s keeper in September.” -Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

20. “For it’s a long, long while from May to December But the days grow short when you reach September.” -Maxwell Anderson

21. “All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.” -Virginia Woolf

22. “September: It was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.” -Alexander Theroux

23. “I guess I’m just feeling September-ish….All the trees change color, the days get very clear — with a little smoke on the horizon from burning leaves. Pumpkins begin to come out.” -George Selden

24. “September’s Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets — Crows — and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming — An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.” -Emily Dickinson

25. “It must be September, July sun has disappeared.” -Charmaine J. Forde

26. “Late September holds onto the summer like that promise you made you can never forget.” -Kurt Philiop Behm

27. “Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.” -Mary Berry

28. “Nostalgia — that’s the autumn, dreaming through September. Just a million lovely things I will always remember.” -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

29. “September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.” -Rowland E. Robinson

30. “Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.” -Terri Guillemets

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