Century-old records are the closest thing we have to a time machine. To listen to the voice of Theodore Roosevelt or the piano playing of Claude Debussy is to feel the years falling away like autumn leaves from a maple tree.
~ Terry Teachout
In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
~ Hugo Claus
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
~ Robert Browning
By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?
~ Hugh Mackay
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
~ B. C. Forbes
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.
~ Sean Bean
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
~ Adam Gopnik
Just take yourself back to September 2001. As that month went on, and as that autumn unrolled, everybody wanted to do something. How can I help? Do you want my blood? Do you want money for the victims? I was a captain in the Marine Corps. I knew what I could do. I was right there. I was ready. I saw it. I moved the rubble with my own hands.
~ Rob Riggle
Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories.
~ Jean Craighead George
