My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.

- Estelle Morris

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

- Hugh Mackay

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

- Hans Blix

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

- Hal Borland

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

- Georg Trakl

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

- Gordon Parks

Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.

- Gary Weiss

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

- George Eliot

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus

The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can't but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching.

- Enya

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

- Elizabeth Bowen

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

- e. e. cummings

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

- Don McLean

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

- Claire Tomalin

First published in 1984 when I was nothing more than sticks of bone at seven, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight' began what would be one of the icons of my grunge-stained disenchanted childhood.

- Ben Peek

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

- B. C. Forbes

The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

- Adam Gopnik

The year was 1882. The palace was the Luxembourg Palace: the ball, the Senat Bal, held at the beginning of autumn. It was still warm, and so the garden was used as well. I was the soprano. I was Lilliet Berne.

- Alexander Chee