60 Perfect Pumpkin Quotes To Put You in a Gourd Mood This Fall

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If there is one thing that is synonymous with fall, it is a bright, round, orange pumpkin! Pumpkin picking is right up there with apple picking this time of year. We use the fleshy fruit in our front porch fall décor and carve ’em up with creepy faces as jack o’lanterns. Pumpkin spice lattes are a hot drink staple this time of year, and who can resist a sweet slice of pumpkin pie?

If you orange’d already pumped up for fall, this collection of cute pumpkin quotes is sure to put you in a gourd mood. So grab a PSL, curl up by the firepit with a cozy blanket, and join us as we celebrate this crisp, cool time of year with our favorite quotes about pumpkins! You know you have those adorable pumpkin patch photos ready to be posted on social media, so read on for some pumpkin captions for Instagram to accompany your harvest wishes and autumn kisses! 

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60 Pumpkin Quotes

1. “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden

2. “Give ’em pumpkin to talk to talk about.” — Unknown

3. “There are three things that I’ve learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.” — Linus, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

4. “The pumpkin lies yellow, beneath the cold skies, it’s luscious and mellow, and ready for pies.” — Walt Mason, The Pumpkin

5. “If you’re ever wondering what to wear, just dress like a pumpkin; you’re good to go.” — Devendra Banhart

6. “Let’s be honest: you can't celebrate fall without its leading role: pumpkin!” —Rachel Hollis

7. “When life gives you pumpkins, make pie.” — Unknown

8. “I will defend pumpkin until the day I die. It’s delicious. It’s healthy. I don’t understand the backlash. It's delicious. It's healthy. I don't understand the backlash. How did pumpkin become this embarrassing thing to love, but bacon is still the cool flavor to add to everything?” — Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody

9. “I'd say the first thing you need is … a pumpkin.” — Fairy Godmother, Cinderella

10. “O' pumpkin pie, your time has come 'round again, and I am autumnrifically happy!” — Terri Guillemets

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11. “I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.” — Robert Breault

12. “My favorite word is ‘pumpkin.’ You can’t take it seriously. But you can’t ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head, and that’s it.” — Harrison Salisbury

13. “Sometimes I wake up in the morning thinking about pumpkin pie.” ― Damien Echols, Life After Death

14. “Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.” — Simone Schwarz-Bart

15. “Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” — Jim Davis

16. “There is magic in the nights when pumpkins glow by moonlight.” — Unknown

17. “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin and crisp sunburnt leaves.” — Ann Drake

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18. “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

19. “Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle." — Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

20. “October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins.” — Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

21. “It’s midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I’m Peter, Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party’s just begun.” — Garth Brooks, “It’s Midnight Cinderella”

22. “Apples, peaches, pumpkin pie. Soon your love will all be mine.” — J.A.Y. & the Techniques, “Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie”

23. “Pumpkin spice lattes are eggnog for morning people.” — John Oliver

24. “There's no such thing as getting lost in a pumpkin patch.” — Unknown

25. “What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?” — John Greenleaf Whittier, The Pumpkin

26. “Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.”— Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins singer

27. “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

28. “I’m no Cinderella, but I know that pumpkins are magical.” — Unknown

29. “Pumpkins, in October, as fat as the full moon, they sit on our doorstep at night and glow.” — Richelle E. Goodrich

30. “I picture pumpkins at a farmer's market, piled happy and high, awaiting a new home where children will carve them into scary faces or mothers will bake them into pie or stew.” — Jenny Gardiner, Slim to None

31. “The pumpkin is a uniquely American plant, widely regarded as one of the most magical plants in all the world.” — Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

32. “Advice from a pumpkin: be well-rounded, get plenty of sunshine, give thanks for life's bounty, have thick skin, keep growing, be outstanding in your field, think big.” — Unknown

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33. “Every pumpkin deserves to shine.” — Marion Meister

34. “Why not imagine a talk with a pumpkin? Why not imagine going off for a drive with a friendly pumpkin, a companion who would not, after all, answer back; who would agree with everything you said, and would at the end of the day appear on your plate as a final gesture of friendship?” — Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

35. “Anna shuddered. ‘Orange is not the colour of seduction, Christopher. Orange is the colour of despair, and pumpkins.’” — Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

36. “Being kept inside a pumpkin shell your whole life was no guarantee against getting flung into space.” — Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

37. “I’m no Cinderella. No fairy godmother will be coming to my rescue, so it’s time to turn these rags into gowns and get ready before my pumpkin ride arrives in two hours.” — Cecilia Robert, A Need So Insatiable

38. “The pumpkin is the older brother of the apple.” ― Corina Abdulahm Negura

39. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — LM. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

40. “Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.” — Garrison Keillor

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41. “Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.” — Harland Williams

42. “In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.” — Cynthia Rylant, In November

43. “Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.” — Neil Gaiman

44. “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

45. “I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming charges off to rescue some other chick.” — Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

46. “Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.” — Amanda Eliasch

47. “… 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

48. “We’re not pumpkins. We’re stunning autumn gourds.” — Penny Reid, Beard Science

49. “In the evening, the brilliant yellow pumpkin blossoms will close, drunk on sunshine.” — Patricia McCormick, Sold

50. “In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.” — Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

51. “We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field, goes through every point of pumpkin history.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

52. “I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread, and spruce.” — Taylor Swift

53. “I am the Pumpkin King.” — Jack, The Nightmare Before Christmas

54. “I haven’t taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.” — Winston Spear

55. “Pumpkin is not perfectly round; the person is not absolutely perfect.” — Unknown

56. “Jack-o'-lantern, Jack-o'-lantern. You are such a funny sight.” —The "Jack-o'-lantern” Halloween song

57. “If nothing ever changed, there would be no pumpkins.” — Unknown

58. “Pumpkin patches turn me into a kid in a candy store.” — Unknown

59. “Produce great pumpkins; the pies will follow later.” — Unknown

60. “The coach has turned into a pumpkin, and the mice have all run away.” — Lady Bird Johnson

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