Pumpkin Quotes

• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Halloween, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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• There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Halloween, People, Three

  "Fictional character: Linus van Pelt". "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, October 25, 1961.

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• Women are like pumpkins; you search and search for the perfect one, bring it home, and the next thing you know, you're looking for a knife.

  Dana Gould

  Home, Perfect One, Knives

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Oct 08, 2012

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• Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. He's got to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Eye, Thinking, Years

  "Fictional character: Linus Van Pelt". "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• Pumpkin spice lattes are egg nog for morning people.

  John Oliver

  Morning, Eggs, People

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• My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Food, Favorite Words, Cooking

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• Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.

  Billy Corgan

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• Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife.

  Dana Gould

  Memories, Knives, Carving

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• Just wait and see, Charlie Brown. I'll see the Great Pumpkin. I'll SEE the Great Pumpkin! Just you wait, Charlie Brown. The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Waiting, Brown, Charlie

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• Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.

  Harland Williams

  Eye, Triangles, Living Organisms

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

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• In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Morning, Fog, Years

  Cynthia Rylant (2015). “In November”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Thanksgiving, Food, Eye

  1844 'The Pumpkin,' stanza 3.

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• Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Ideas, Waiting

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• Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Talking, Grows

  Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”

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• October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!

  Rainbow Rowell

  Autumn, Nurse, Grace

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• The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

  Nick Harkaway

  Errors, Swings, Tree

  "The Gone-Away World". Book by Nick Harkaway, June 2008.

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• At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.

  John Updike

  Night, Safety Pins, Pirate

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• Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Faith, Horse, Children

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• But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Thanksgiving, Sweet, Lying

  Margaret Junkin Preston (1887). “Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse”

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• Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sweet, Eye, Soul

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “The Halloween Tree”, p.126, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• She liked anything orange: leaves; some moons; marigolds; chrysanthemums; cheese; pumpkin, both in pie and out; orange juice; marmalade. Orange is bright and demanding. You can't ignore orange things. She once saw an orange parrot in the pet store and had never wanted anything so much in her life. She would have named it Halloween and fed it butterscotch. Her mother said butterscotch would make a bird sick and, besides, the dog would certainly eat it up. September never spoke to the dog again — on principle.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Mother, Dog, Halloween

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.16, Macmillan

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• It's midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I'm Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun.

  Garth Brooks

  Party, Games, Worry

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• Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

  Ray Bradbury

  Country, Eye, Knives

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• Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.

  Sandra Lee

  Sweet, Pie, Cinnamon

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