September Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.

  George Washington Cable

  Summer, June, Gossip

  George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.1, University of Georgia Press

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• September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces mushrooms is the cause, too, of the extra 'life' in the air - a resilience, a sparkle.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Air, Mushrooms, Resilience

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1102, Delphi Classics

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• Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights. Since then we've lived in sunshine and in shadow, and although we can never unsee what happened here, we can also see that children who lost their parents have grown into young adults, grandchildren have been born and good works and public service have taken root to honor those we loved and lost.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Morning, Children, Taken

  "Obama: Decade Since 9/11 a Story of American Resilience". www.foxnews.com. September 11, 2011.

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• My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Cities, Roots, Feet

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• The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the principles of political, economic, and religious freedom, the rule of law and respect for human life. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Religious, Patriotic, Law

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• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6444, Delphi Classics

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• No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what took place in this nation on Tuesday morning. September 11 will go down in our history as a day to remember.

  Billy Graham

  Morning, Tuesday, Day To Remember

  Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Delivered 14 September, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Washington D.C.

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• A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.

  William F. Longgood

  Summer, Garden, Years

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• September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Wall, Eye, Fire

  Geoffrey Hill (2013). “Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012”, p.44, Oxford University Press

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• Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.

  George W. Bush

  Airplane, Sadness, Fire Burning

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Laughter, Creativity

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• Time is passing...yet for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th.

  George W. Bush

  America, United States, Forget

  First Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 10 November 2001, U.N. Headquarters, New York

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• September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

  Alexander Theroux

  Beautiful, Regret, Flower

  Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

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• September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

  Robert Lowell

  Apples, Water, Dawn

  Robert Lowell (1955). “Poesie: 1943-1952”

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• Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Corn, Months, Rich

  'Barbara Frietchie' l. 1

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• September morn Do you remember how we danced that night away Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play September morning still can make me feel this way.

  Neil Diamond

  Morning, Night, Play

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• Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.

  A. E. Housman

  Play, Long, Tunes

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Flower, Dark, Blue

  David Herbert Lawrence, “Bavarian Gentians”

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• If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

  Jon Stewart

  Rights, September 11, Liberty

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• It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people.

  Jean Chretien

  People, Evil, September 11

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• The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately. And I don't think we want to speculate on the number of casualties. The effort now has to be to save as many people as possible.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Numbers, September 11, Bears

  "New York's Governor And Mayor of New York City Address Concerns of the Damage". News conference, New York, transcripts.cnn.com. September 11, 2001.

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• Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!

  Thomas Parsons

  Grief, Sunny Weather, Sorrow

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• Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go straight to hell.

  William J. Clinton

  Giving, September 11, Way

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• Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, Survival, September 11

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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