November Quotes…
You have eaten most of your Halloween candy, planted your fall flowers, have carved your pumpkins, and pulling out the sweaters and jackets for colder weather.
November is the best month of Autumn, which includes Thanksgiving and spending time with your family and friends to celebrate and give thanks.
These inspirational November quotes were chosen to reflect on this final month of autumn and motivate us to gracefully adapt to the changing seasons. Welcome, November!
November Quotes
“November always seems to me the Norway of the year.” Emily Dickinson
“November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.” Sir Walter Scott
“In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.” Martha Gellhorn
“Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all.” Gregory F. Lenz
“November at its best—with a sort of delightful menace in the air.” Anne Bosworth Greene
“A September to remember. An October full of splendor. A November to treasure.” Unknown
“Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all.” Gregory F. Lenz
“November; Crows are approaching – Wounded leaves fall to the ground.”Kristian Goldmund
“Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul… I account it high time to get to sea.” Unknown
“New month, new day, new date, new chapter, new page, new wishes! Welcome November.” Unknown
“Fear not November’s challenge bold—
We’ve books and friends,
And hearths that never can grow cold:
These make amends!”
Alexander Louis Fraser, “November”
“No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds – November!” Thomas Hood
“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.”
Cyril Connolly
“November is the month to remind us to be thankful for the many positive things happening in our life.” Unknown
“If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.”
Madeleine M. Kunin
“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise.” Gladys Taber
“November: The last month of autumn, but the beginning of a new adventure; time to take a risk and do the unexpected.” unknown
Even when November’s sun is low and Winter flaps his fleecy wings, Thy gold among his silvery snow a solace in the sadness brings.James Rigg
“Don’t wait until the fourth Thursday in November, to sit with family and friends to give thanks. Make every day a day of Thanksgiving!” Charmaine J. Forde
“The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.”
Henry Rollins
“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.”
Cynthia Rylant,
November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.F. Sionil Jose
Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums … They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.Maeterlinck
“The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on… A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.” Aldo Leopold
“But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.” L.M. Montgomery
In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.Cynthia Rylant