September
ninth month in the Julian and Gregorian calendars
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September is the ninth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. September in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of March in the Northern Hemisphere. September 1 marks the beginning of the meteorological autumn in the Northern hemisphere, and the beginning of the meteorological spring Southern hemisphere.
Quotes
edit- Summer has come and passed: The innocent can never last; wake me up when September ends.
- Billie Joe Armstrong, "Wake Me Up When September Ends", American Idiot (2004), California: Reprise Records
- O sweet September, thy first breezes bring
The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter,
The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring
And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.- George Arnold, "September Days", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), pp. 698–99
- Do you remember, the 21st night of September? Love was changing the minds of pretenders, while chasing the clouds away.
- Earth, Wind & Fire, "September", The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1 (23 November 1978), New York City: American Record Corporation
- It was the third of September: That day, I'll always remember. Yes I will, because that was the day that my daddy died.
- Dennis Edwards, "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", All Directions (27 July 1972), California: Gordy Records
- The morrow was a bright September morn;
The earth was beautiful as if new-born;
There was that nameless splendor everywhere,
That wild exhilaration in the air,
Which makes the passers in the city street
Congratulate each other as they meet.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863–1874), Part I, The Student's Tale, The Falcon of Sir Federigo, line 135
- Come out 'tis now September,
The hunter's moon's begun,
And through the wheaten stubble
Is heard the frequent gun.- Elizabeth Stirling Bridge, "All Among the Barley", The Musical Times, No. 187. "Supplement", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), pp. 698–99
- The sultry summer past, September comes,
Soft twilight of the soft-declining year.
All mildness, soothing loneliness and peace;
The fading season ere the falling come.- Carlos Wilcox, "The Age of Benevolence", Extracts from Book II, in Remains of the Rev. Carlos Wilcox (Hartford: Edward Hopkins, 1828), p. 153
