rec'd from another group and thought I would pass them on:
*** The graceful dance of falling leaves brings reflections of times past, and bright hopes for all that is yet to be. -Flavia
*** Autumn is a second spring when every leaf's a flower - Albert Camus
*** 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
*** It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
- P. D. James
*** AUTUMN DAWN
Now the nighttime steals away as timid morning swirls the floating mists, the ripened corn, the chimney smoke in curls. Dew-covered grass a sparkle in the infant light. Golden leaves drift softly to the ground, in silent flight. The Maple and the Black Oak each catch a yellow ray, their tops explode in red and orange and shout out: "Autumn Day".
Danny Pogue
*** One of the nicest beds I know Isn't a bed of soft white snow. Isn't a bed of cool green grass After the noisy mowers pass. Isn't a bed of yellow hay Making me itch for half a day. But autumn leaves in a pile that high, Deep and smelling like fall, and dry. That's the bed where I like to lie And watch the flutters of Fall go by. (Aileen Fisher)
*** Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth Lawrence
*** Page Toppers/Sayings
A is for Autumn
Happy Fall, Y'all
Autumn Colors
*** An Autumn Day
Pumpkins in the cornfields, Gold among the brown, Leaves of rust and scarlet Trembling slowly down; Birds that travel southward, Lovely time to play; Nothing is as pleasant As an autumn day!
~ Carmen Lagos Signes
*** 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
*** Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. Faith Baldwin American author 1893-1978
*** Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. Hal Borland
*** Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils. Cyril Connolly English critic and editor, 1903-1974
*** October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. Hal Borland
*** Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. Unknown
*** Men are like pumpkins. It seems like all the good ones are either taken or they've had everything scraped out of their heads with a spoon. Anonymous
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U2 October (1981) October
October. And the trees are stripped bare Of all they wear. What do I care? October. And Kingdoms rise, And Kingdoms fall, But you go on, and on
*** 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
*** A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.
- Eric Sloane
*** Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
- Stanley Horowitz
*** Autumn Woods
I like the woods in Autumn When the dry leaves hide the ground, When the trees are bare And the wind sweeps by With a lonesome rushing sound.
I can rustle the leaves in Autumn And I can make a bed In the thick dry leaves That have fallen From the bare trees overhead.
James S. Tippett
*** The joy of Thanksgiving lies not
in the delight of the feast but in
the special memories made
with cherished family and friends.
*** If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart
*** Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~E.P. Powell
*** So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, To praise the Lord with feast and song In thankfulness of heart. ~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving
*** As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
*** Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher
*** Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. ~Alexander Pope
*** What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," 26 November 1981
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