Aliyah Burke

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

~Jane Howard

If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.

~Ashleigh Brilliant

Families are like fudge — mostly sweet with a few nuts.

~Author unknown

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. ~Jim Bishop

No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace

As I have seen in one Autumnal face….

~John Donne, “Elegy IX: The Autumnal

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many…. 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. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), “Autumn,” The Atlantic Almanac, 1868

The bright summer had passed away, and gorgeous autumn was flinging its rainbow-tints of beauty on hill and dale. ~Cornelia L. Tuthill, “Virginia Dare: Or, the Colony of Roanoke,” 1840

There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~Euripides

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer