16 Quotes to Celebrate the Start of September

As the lazy days of August dwindle away, the fall months are drawing closer. And while it's sad to say goodbye to summertime living, the month of September offers the perfect intermediary between the dog days of summer and the thick of autumn that comes in October and November. It's a transition time for mind and closet alike. For that, we thank you, September. We've rounded up some of the most celebratory sayings about the month to help start it off on the right note. Below, find 16 quotes about the month of September.

"September tries its best to have us forget summer." – Bernard Williams

"And then the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and autumn was awakened." – Raquel Franco

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

"Wine is the divine juice of September." – Voltaire

"Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer." – Wallace Stegner

"September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth, and colour. It glows like old amber." – Patience Strong

"Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple." – J. K. Rowling

"The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress and moving on." –Lauren Oliver

"Happily we bask in this warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures." – Henry David Thoreau

"I guess I'm just feeling September-ish... All the trees change color, the days get very clear–with a little smoke on the horizon from burning leaves. Pumpkins begin to come out." – George Selden

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

"Make it a September to remember." – Unknown

"September is the month of wonderful weather." – Unknown

"Nostalgia–that's the autumn, dreaming through September. Just a million lovely things I will always remember." – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul." – Peggy Toney Horton

"There is a clarity about September... the sun seems brighter, the sky more blue, the white clouds take on marvelous shapes; the moon is a wonderful apparition, rising gold, cooling to silver; and the stars are so big." – Faith Baldwin