HALLOWEEN QUOTES
quotations about Halloween
Halloween is tomorrow. A group of wine experts has actually come up with a list of the best wines to pair with Halloween candy. They say, "White wine goes great with Skittles, red wine goes great with Twix, and ... we're alcoholics, aren't we?"
JIMMY FALLON
The Tonight Show, Oct. 30, 2014
Trick-or-treaters came to the White House for about an hour on Saturday. Conservatives are already accusing the president of seriously depleting our country's Tootsie Roll reserve.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Oct. 31, 2011
Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show, Oct. 29, The Tonight Show, Oct. 29, 2010
Halloween was a time of candy corn, jack-o'-lanterns, candy kisses, peanut-butter cups, bubble gum, Fig Newtons, soapy windows. I tried to tell about Halloween and what it represented to me--a great ritual of childhood when the world for a single night opened its doors and its coffers of candy and fun and happiness.
PAT CONROY
Conrack
Those seemingly interminable dark walks between houses, long before street-lit safety became an issue, were more adrenalizing than the mountains of candy filling the sack. Sadly Halloween, with our good-natured attempts to protect the little ones, from the increasingly dangerous traffic and increasingly sick adults, has become an utter bore.
LAUREN SPRINGER
"The Arrival of Fall", The Undaunted Garden
Giving kids nutritious snacks on Halloween is like passing off underwear as a present at Christmas.
ADAIR LARA
Redbook, 1992
According to USA Today, 74 percent of Americans plan to hand out candy this Halloween. Although President Obama thinks it should be just the top 1 percent.
JAY LENO
Tonight Show, Oct. 27, 2011
Every day is Halloween, isn't it? For some of us.
TIM BURTON
attributed, Pinterest
Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do.
RITA RUDNER
stand-up routine
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year?
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
The Gum Thief
The world turned upside down -- in a good way -- for one black velvet night.
KAREN FORTUNATI
The Weight of Zero
I'm always in town for Halloween. Even if I didn't happen to enjoy walking in the Village Halloween parade in my ax murderer's mask, I would feel it my duty to be there because of the long-established role of a father in passing on important cultural traditions to the next generation.
CALVIN TRILLIN
Third Helpings
There was a mystery here; there was a mystery in the black cats and walking skeletons and living scarecrows that we saw decorating school windows, mystery in the grinning gargoyles and jack-o-lanterns on all the porches.
JACK SANTINO
All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life
Halloween is a time for audacious artistic expression in costume and cooking and much else.
LEONARD R. N. ASHLEY
Halloween: Everything Important About the Most Popular Secular Holiday
The spirits are pulling the sere dry leaves
Of the shadowy forest down;
And howl the gaunt reapers that gather the sheaves,
With the moon, o'er their revels, to frown:
To-morrow ye'll find all their spoils in your path,
And ye'll speak of the wind and the sky;
But oh could ye see them tonight, in their wrath,
I ween ye'd be frenzied of eye!
ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE
Halloween: A Romaunt
The laughter of children filled the crisp air while off-beat rhythms of knocks and door bells mixed with a chorus of "trick or treat" that sang out into the early evening.
AMBER NEWBERRY
One Night in Salem
A lot of kids across the country got the day off from school because of Halloween. I’m pretty sure this is why we're falling behind China. Not only did their kids not get the day off from school, they made all of our kids' costumes.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Nov. 1, 2011
I wonder if Halloween is the one day of the year Lady Gaga wears sensible slacks.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Oct. 31, 2011
This Halloween, if you see a blue pumpkin, that means the house is handing out allergy-free treats. That's true. Of course, if you see a blue pumpkin, it could also mean the house is using last year's pumpkin.
CONAN O'BRIEN
Conan, Oct. 30, 2014