Summer To Fall Quotes - Page 2

• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude

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• For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Time, Fall, Autumn

  "Autumn Across America". Book by Edwin Way Teale, 1956.

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• August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

  Sylvia Plath

  Summer, Rain, Fall

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.124, Anchor

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• Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson,
  Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.
  Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing
  With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Autumn, Growth

  "Thirty Poems" by William C. Bryant, Appleton, New York, (pp. 112-115), 1864.

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• If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Summer, Mother, Spring

  "Northern Exposure (Thanksgiving)". TV Series, November 23, 1992.

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• Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Song, Fall, Autumn

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• But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.

  Stephen King

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.200, Anchor

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• A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand.

  Bar Refaeli

  Summer, Hands, Perfect

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• Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.

  William C. Bryant

  Fall, Autumn, Gold

  "The Third of November". Poem by William C. Bryant (1861), first published in William C. Bryant "Thirty Poems" (pp. 112-115), 1864.

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• You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.

  Candace Bushnell

  Summer, Falling In Love, Guy

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