November Quotes - Page 3

• The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  People, Months, England

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, William Bond (1766). “The Spectator”, p.310

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• It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Years, Dying, Farce

  PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1913). “THE COMPLETE POEMS OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR”, p.94, Lulu.com

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• Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea.

  Donald Hall

  Dark, Oil, June

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• I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Rain, Sky, Lovely

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• Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth
  Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,--
  Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,--
  Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.

  Bayard Taylor

  Blue, Color, Tree

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.33

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Autumn, Scent, Beast

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4223, Delphi Classics

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• On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered;
  Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee,
  Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them
  Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.

  William C. Bryant

  Children, Echoes, Tree

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• The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.

  A. R. Ammons

  Circles, White, Sun

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• It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.

  Adrienne Rich

  Moving, May, Ends

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.61, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are gifted, even in November Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense Of Her nakedly worn magnificence We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

  Robert Graves

  Mother, Song, Betrayal

  Robert Graves (1955). “Collected poems, 1955”

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• If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Color, Months, England

  "Gray Days of November" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Yousef Aid Ahmed has memorized the places where his four brothers' bodies laid after they were killed by US marines, he said. The family recounts that November day in 2005 and says it was a massacre of the brothers, along with 20 other people, following a roadside bomb in Haditha.

  James Mattis

  Brother, Marine, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by this month seem only stirred to lamentation, giving us year end and 'melancholy days' remarks, thereby showing that theory is stronger than observation among the rhyming brotherhood, or else that they have chronic indigestion and no gardens to stimulate them.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Garden, Swings, Years

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!

  Emily Dickinson

  Fall, Autumn, Snow

  Emily Dickinson (2007). “Questa è la mia lettera al mondo: poesie”, p.62, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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• To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Ice, Sky

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.272, Applewood Books

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• A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.

  Eric Sloane

  Fall, Autumn, Lakes

  Eric Sloane (2013). “Weather Almanac”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Sports, Difficult Times, Romania

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.

  Nia Vardalos

  Children, Cities, One Day

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• November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Years, Months, Whole

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More”, p.160, Xist Publishing

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• I've been following Jesus for 35 years. He's guided me, comforted me, encouraged me, challenged me, befriended me, and been my constant companion since November 8, 1981.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Years, Companion

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

  William C. Bryant

  Fall, Sadness, Autumn

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.

  Barack Obama

  Change, People, Care

  "House Democrats, Obama Retreat To Williamsburg". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 6, 2009.

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• I have said explicitly from day one when I announced this policy in, I believe, November of 2011, that I and our government oppose the idea of banning the wearing of the niqab in public.

  Jason Kenney

  Believe, I Believe, Policy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Stars, Spring

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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• October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Twilight, Sunset

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.178, Rowman & Littlefield

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