Autumn
The days continue to get shorter and nights get longer in the Northern Hemisphere after the autumnal equinox. Reuters

Summer is left behind and it's now time for September. The ninth month of the year signifies pumpkin spice lattes, light cardigans and the start of football season. It is also the month of the autumn equinox and the Harvest Season.

The autumnal equinox occurs in September every year, most often on the 22nd, 23rd or 24th. There is also a spring, or vernal equinox, every year. The solstices — one during summer, another during winter — are the counterparts of the equinox.

Friday marks the first day of the month and here are some quotes to celebrate, from Goodreads, The Quote Garden, and Brainy Quotes:

1. "The morning of the first of September was crisp and golden as an apple." — J.K. Rowling

2. "We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost." — Henry Rollins

3. "September means / School / Effort / and Play / Trying your best / Each hour of the day / Making new friends / Being good as you can / Exciting discoveries / Reading books with a friend." — Boni Fulgham

4. “Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul... but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” — Peggy Toney Horton

5. "[That] old September feeling . . . of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes and failures had been wiped clean by summer." — Wallace Stegner

6. "For it's a long, long while from May to December / But the days grow short when you reach September." — Maxwell Anderson

7. "The leaves of brown came tumbling down / Remember, in September, in the rain / The sun went out just like a dying amber / That September in the rain." — Al Dubin and Harry Warren

8. "September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception." — Olive Wendell Holmes

9. "I love September, especially when we're in it." — Willie Stargell

10. "September was a thirty-days long goodbye to summer, to the season that left everybody both happy and weary of the warm, humid weather and the exhausting but thrilling adventures." — Lea Malot

11. "We say that we're in love / While secretly wishing for rain / Sipping coke and playing games / September's here again." — David Sylvian

12. "By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer." — Helen Hunt Jackson

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