Pumpkin Quotes - Page 3

• In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Growing Up, Men

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• It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Thinking, Finals, Analysis

  FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Oct 19, 2011

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• I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

  Robert Breault

  Thanksgiving, Pie, Knowing

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• Eric followed Vlad Tepes’s stubby finger, identifying me as the future Happy Meal. Then he stared at Dracula, looking up from his kneeling position. I couldn’t read his face at all, and I felt a stirring of fear. What would Charlie Brown have done if the Great Pumpkin wanted to eat the little red-haired girl?

  Charlaine Harris

  Girl, Meals, Eric

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “A Touch of Dead”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Boston, Pie, Hotel

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1859). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1”, p.36

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• Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.

  J. K. Rowling

  Flower, Garden, Lakes

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

  Billy Corgan

  Band, Bigs, Smashing

  "Smashing Pumpkins: Fully Illustrated Book & Interview Disc". Book by Jim Stapleton, 1996.

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• This year I invested in pumpkins. They've been going up the whole month of October and I got a feeling they're going to peak right around January. Then bang! That's when I'll cash in.

  Homer

  Years, Feelings, Cash

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• I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming charges off to rescue some other chick.

  Cynthia Hand

  Couple, Sitting, Charming

  Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.139, Egmont UK

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• I would rather start a family than finish one.

  Don Marquis

  Family, Starting A Family

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.136, Penguin

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• Is there a short-eared koobish, then?' Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.' We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.

  Adam Rex

  Singing, Kind, Conversation

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• I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.

  Tina Fey

  Sexy, Thinking, Glasses

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• He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.

  Charlaine Harris

  Frost, Looks

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• I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Differences, People

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• ...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

  Mark Twain

  Achievement, Firsts, Dollars

  Mark Twain (2015). “Roughing It: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.327, 谷月社

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• I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Wings, Politics

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.226, Random House

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• Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

  John J. Geddes

  Dark, Reflection, Orange

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• It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.

  Lesley Gore

  Party, Expression, Want

  Song: It's My Party

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• The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed as vegetables - roots (carrot and beet), stems (Irish potato and asparagus), leaves (spinach and lettuce), leaf stalk (celery and Swiss chard), bracts (globe artichoke), flower stalks and buds (broccoli and cauliflower), fruits (tomato and squash), seeds (beans), and even the petals (Yucca and pumpkin).

  Charles Heiser

  Flower, Vegetables, Squash

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• The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

  Greg Knight

  Suicide, Party, Election

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• Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

  Dick Durbin

  Party, Home, Illinois

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• Little brats yellin 'Trick or Treat' all through my screen door,
  When y'all should be at home sleep,
  Instead of at my front porch 15 deep.
  The jack o' lantern came in handy...
  I can turn my porch light out like I ain't got no candy.
  But ain't that somethin?
  You buy a Halloween costume and a pumpkin,
  Almost gave your children a heart attack.
  It's a tradition, but who the hell started that?

  Kam

  Children, Halloween, Rap

  Song: Holiday Madness, Album: Neva Again, 1993

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• Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.

  Julian Critchley

  Party, Political, Secret

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• Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Party, Tea, Republican

  "What James Carville doesn't get about Republicans" By Ari Fleischer, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2012.

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• As long as these blood brothers are our leaders, and as long as your party officials are Jewish lackeys, you will be no threat to the big money men.

  Julius Streicher

  Brother, Party, Men

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