Every autumn, one round orange fruit takes over porches, patches, pies and photographs — the pumpkin. It is the season’s happiest symbol, and it has been inspiring writers, poets and film-makers for well over a century.
Pumpkins belong to harvest fields and Halloween nights in equal measure. The same pumpkin can sit beside a front door as a smiling jack-o’-lantern, then end the season as the centrepiece of a Thanksgiving pie.
The best Pumpkin Quotes capture all of it — the cosy patch visits, the crisp October air and the simple pleasure of something grown slowly and shared generously. A few are famous literary lines, and the rest are beloved seasonal sayings, honestly credited.
In this collection you will find 51 quotes in five moods — classic and literary, pumpkin patch and harvest, cute and cosy, Halloween, and short lines for cards and captions. So, let’s pick the one that belongs on your porch this year.
11 Classic & Literary Pumpkin Quotes
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau
There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.
Linus van Pelt, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.
Simone Schwarz-Bart
The pumpkin lies yellow, beneath the cold skies, it’s luscious and mellow, and ready for pies.
Walt Mason
October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins.
Rainbow Rowell
In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell.
Cynthia Rylant
I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.
Ann Drake
Pumpkins, in October, as fat as the full moon, they sit on our doorstep at night and glow.
Richelle E. Goodrich
My favorite word is ‘pumpkin.’ You can’t take it seriously. But you can’t ignore it, either.
Harrison Salisbury
I’d say the first thing you need is … a pumpkin.
Fairy Godmother, Cinderella
Talking about pumpkins doesn’t make them grow.
Alexander McCall Smith
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10 Pumpkin Patch & Harvest Quotes
The pumpkin patch is autumn’s treasure field, and every pumpkin is a prize waiting to be picked.
Unknown
There are pumpkins aplenty, heaped at roadside stands, glowing in orange beauty on rural doorsteps, even lying like full moons in the fields.
Hal Borland
At the close of a long hot summer, the appearance of the pumpkin heralds the welcome arrival of autumn.
Kari Spencer
Gone pumpkin pickin’.
Unknown
Pick the pumpkin that makes you smile; it already knows the way home.
Unknown
You are never too old to play in a pumpkin patch.
Unknown
Autumn is finding a purpose for every pumpkin in the patch.
Unknown
A day in the pumpkin patch is a day well spent.
Unknown
The best pumpkins are found by wandering, not by rushing.
Unknown
Harvest time turns fields of green into seas of orange.
Unknown
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10 Cute & Cozy Pumpkin Quotes
Pumpkin kisses and harvest wishes.
Unknown
Sugar and pumpkin spice, and all things nice.
Unknown
O pumpkin pie, your time has come ‘round again and I am autumnrifically happy!
Terri Guillemets
Hello, pumpkin.
Unknown
You are the pumpkin spice to my autumn.
Unknown
Cutest pumpkin in the patch.
Unknown
Fall is proof that pumpkins make everything cozier.
Unknown
Shedding late-summer tears for the end of cherry season. Patiently and hopefully waiting for pumpkin pie season.
Terri Guillemets
Keep calm and pumpkin on.
Unknown
A cosy home, a warm pie and a pumpkin on the porch — that is autumn, complete.
Unknown
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10 Halloween & Jack-o’-Lantern Pumpkin Quotes
I don’t see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there’s not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.
Linus van Pelt, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.
Unknown
I heard a pumpkin a day keeps the goblins away.
Unknown
Halloween colors, less or more, are pumpkin, witch and bloody gore.
Richelle E. Goodrich
On Halloween night, every pumpkin gets its moment to shine.
Unknown
Carve a smile into a pumpkin and autumn smiles back.
Unknown
A jack-o’-lantern is a pumpkin with a story to tell.
Unknown
Pumpkins glow brightest on the darkest October nights.
Unknown
Dear Great Pumpkin, I am looking forward to your arrival on Halloween night. I hope you will bring me lots of presents.
Linus van Pelt, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
The pumpkin itself is a symbol for mortality.
Seth Adam Smith
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10 Short Pumpkin Quotes
Pumpkin spice and everything nice.
Unknown
Produce great pumpkins; the pies will follow later.
Unknown
Every pumpkin deserves to shine.
Unknown
Pumpkin season is my favorite season.
Unknown
Life is better with pumpkin pie.
Unknown
Autumn begins with a pumpkin.
Unknown
Pumpkins: the lanterns of autumn.
Unknown
Home is where the pumpkin pie is.
Unknown
Fresh from the patch.
Unknown
I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.
Robert Breault
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Keep this page for pumpkin season and every patch visit, carving night and pie it brings. Whether your pumpkin ends up glowing on the porch or sliced on the table, the right line is here — warm, round and full of autumn, just like the pumpkin itself.
