65 Pumpkin Quotes That Celebrate Autumn's Glorious Gourd

Autumn is known for being a season of simple pleasures. From the smell of freshly baked pumpkin bread to the cool breeze on a walk beneath the colorful foliage, there is much to love when the weather shifts after summer. Chefs, poets and other public figures frequently sing the praises of this magical time of year, and particularly of the gourd it is frequently associated with: the pumpkin. 

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In this collection of pumpkin quotes, we focus on these festive plants and the comfort their reappearance gives us each time the fall rolls around. Whether you know them as a squash, berry, vegetable, or gourd, they're a beloved part of the season. They serve many different uses, and people frequently find creative ways to incorporate them into decorating and baking.

Those of us who are fans of the pumpkin as food might like the flavor of pumpkin spice or pumpkin pie, or even just chewing on some roasted pumpkin seeds. They're also omnipresent in October for their visual value as a symbol of Halloween, with jack-o'-lanterns peppering many doorsteps.

However you appreciate pumpkins during autumn, whether it's getting the perfect pic at the pumpkin patch to pair with your best fall instagram caption or driving your friends crazy with your favorite jack-o-lantern-themed Halloween quotes and Halloween puns, you're sure to enjoy these quotes about the spectacular orange orbs that are a staple of the season. 

• "This is a cornucopia of pumpkin goodness." - Jason Matheson
  
• "Pumpkins are lovable, and their wonderfully wild and humorous atmosphere never ceases to capture the hearts of people." - Yayoi Kusama
  
• "I'd say the first thing you need is a pumpkin!" - Fairy Godmother in Cinderella
  
• "My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it either." - Harrison Salisbury
  
• On Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin rises from his pumpkin patch and flies through the air with his bag of toys to all the children." -- Linus in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
• Linus: "You don't believe the story of the Great Pumpkin? I thought little girls always believed everything that was told to them. I thought little girls were innocent and trusting. Sally: "Welcome to the 20th Century!" -- It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

 

• "O' pumpkin pie, your time has come 'round again and I am autumnrifically happy!" - Terri Guillemets
  
• "Somehow I picked up something better. Friends who care enough to knock on your pumpkin and make sure you haven't gone mushy inside." -- Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

• "Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs." - Karen Bender
  
• "Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch." - Tyler Hojberg
  
• "Who doesn't want pumpkin pie for breakfast? That's the breakfast of champions." - Erika Girardi
  
• "Pumpkin Pie is one of the great glories of autumn in our land. When you find it, you celebrate." - Hal Borland
  
• "Every time I walk into a bakery, the first pie I'm going for is going to be the dark golden pumpkin pie with the delicate scalloped crust. And I refuse to be ashamed about it." - Shameika Rhymes
  
• "We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "There are three things I've learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin."  -- It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
• "That's right. I am the Pumpkin King!" -- The Nightmare Before Christmas

• "I will defend pumpkin until the day I die." - Anna Kendrick
  
• "In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings." - Gregory Maguire
  
• "The pumpkin is a uniquely American plant, widely regarded as one of the most magical plants in all the world." - Seth Adam Smith
  
• "One dish, that wakens memory's longing sigh — The genuine, far-famed, Yankee pumpkin pie!" - Sophia Louisa Robbins Little
  
• "And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing." -- The Nightmare Before Christmas
• "You're the pumpkin to my pie." -- Unknown
• She said 'Hello, country bumpkin, How's the frost out on the pumpkin?'" -- "Country Bumpkin," Cal Smith
• Jack-o-lantern, Jack-o-lantern. You are such a funny sight." -- Jack-O-Lantern Song
• "I tromped through the pumpkin patch." -- The Nightmare Before Christmas
• "Hey, have you come to sing pumpkin carols?" -- It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

• "The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about?" - Nora Ephron
  
• "You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin." - Alexander McCall Smith
  
• "We're not pumpkins. We're stunning autumn gourds." - Penny Reid
  
• "Apples, peaches, pumpkin pie, soon your love will be all mine." - Jay & The Techniques
  
• "I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it." - Robert Breault
  
• "What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie?" - John Greenleaf Whittier
• "Pumpkins talk to me. Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins. Giving off an aura of my sacred mental state, they embody a base for the joy of living, a living shared by all of humankind on the earth. It is for the pumpkins that I keep on going." - Yayoi Kusama

• "I long for the days, Of pumpkins and ghosts; When the dead use homes, And people as hosts." - E. Reyes
  
• "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." - Henry David Thoreau
  
• "The pumpkin is the older brother of the apple." - Corina Abdulahm
  
• "I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves." - Ann Drake
  
• "It's that special time of year where we voluntarily imbibe pumpkin spice lattes: the coffee that tastes like a candle." - John Oliver
  
• "Dear Great Pumpkin, I am looking forward to your arrival on Halloween night. I hope you will bring me lots of presents." -- Linus in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

• "Every pumpkin deserves to shine." - Marion Meister
  
• "With its jolly, peaceful presence, the pumpkin is a figurative, almost bodily, form." - Catherine Taft
  
• "The only thing better than a baby in a pumpkin is a baby dressed as a cat in a pumpkin." - Ellen DeGeneres
  
• "In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell." - Cynthia Rylant
  
• "The pumpkin lies yellow, beneath the cold skies, it's luscious and mellow, and ready for pies." - Walt Mason
  
• "All these traditions, jack-o-lanterns, putting on costumes, handing out treats, they were started to protect us, but nowadays...no one really cares." -- Trick r' Treat
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• "A pumpkin pie martini? Yes, please!" - Rachel Hollis
  
• "Is there some vast demographic of pumpkin-crazed, you know, people hanging outside of, whatever the pumpkin outlet is, like a methadone clinic, waiting for it to open up so they can get their pumpkin spice?" - Anthony Bourdain
  
• "Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin." - Simone Schwarz-Bart
  
• "My back could be killing me, but if someone showed me a really cool pumpkin, I'd want to carve it right now." - Ray Villafane
  
• "October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins." - Rainbow Rowell
  

• "Once a pumpkin, always a pumpkin." - Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins
  
• "At the close of a long hot summer, the appearance of the pumpkin heralds the welcome arrival of autumn." - Kari Spencer
  
• "There's no better family tradition than getting out carving knives and cutting open your thumb in front of the children." - Stephen Colbert
  
• "Orange is the color of despair, and pumpkins." - Cassandra Clare
  
• "But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!" - Margaret Junkin Preston
  

• "Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice." - Sandra Lee
  
• "O, a thing sublime is the Pumpkin vine!" - May C. Hanks
  
• "I don't see how a pumpkin patch could be more sincere than this one." - Linus in It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
  
• "In the evening, the brilliant yellow pumpkin blossoms will close, drunk on sunshine." - Patricia McCormick
  
• "Happy September! The world shall now transform into pumpkin everything." - Keith Wynn
  
• You must be daddy's little pumpkin, I can tell by the way you roll." -- John Prine
• "But our muse will rhyme for the Pumpkin Vine, as long as the pen is able. For plainly 'tis seen the Pumpkin is Queen of the ranch and the dinner table." -- Mrs. May C. Hanks
• "I am falling in love with autumn: the smell of warm cider, the orange color leaves, pumpkins everywhere and the crisp breeze." Charmaine J. Forde

• "It's midnight Cinderella, but don't you worry none. Cause I'm Peter, Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun." - Garth Brooks
  
• "Pumpkin spice is just eggnog for morning people." - John Oliver
  
• "Shedding late-summer tears for the end of cherry season. Patiently and hopefully waiting for pumpkin pie season." - Terri Guillemets
  
• "Gourd vibes only." - Unknown
  

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