Halloween Quotations | Page 5

Dear Great Pumpkin, Halloween is now only a few days away. Children all over the world await you coming. When you rise out of the pumpkin patch that night, please remember I am your most loyal follower. Have a nice trip. Don't forget to take out flight insurance.

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.

Parents and teachers have brought children back. We've been told this is the most ideal Halloween event -- a high-class, sophisticated haunted house in beautiful, elaborate surroundings. We don't have to put blood anywhere, because the house and the stories are interesting enough.

For theme parks to become involved in Halloween, it's kind of a natural fit because it's something that is so easily translated into a live experience. We're able to take what you expect the Halloween experience to be and blow it up a thousand times.

Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.

Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.

O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!

In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day... that was celebrated on November 5th with things like bonfires and fireworks... I think that made Halloween seem preferable. The idea of having pumpkins and costumes and parties seemed much more appealing than burning down your neighborhood.

For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the '30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming.

South Africa is the only place in the Southern hemisphere where Halloween is really catching on. They have a lot of sporting events that have made it more popular there. They have motocross and rave celebrations, and they're embracing it as a youth culture thing.