Winter famous quotes

She turned to the sunlight     And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor:     "Winter is dead.
-- A. A. Milne

#Spring #Winter #Yellow

Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.
-- A. A. Milne

#Winter #Ideas #Piglet

As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Winter #Pyramids #Olympus

June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
-- A. E. Housman

#Winter #June #Heaven

One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.
-- A. S. J. Tessimond

#Rain #Winter #Simple

It is reported from 'Ubayd ibn 'Umayr (radiAllahu anhu) that he said: "It used to be said when winter came: O people of the Qur`an, the night has become long so you can pray (more) and the day has become short for you to fast."
-- Abu Nu`aym

#Wisdom #Islamic #Winter

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.
-- Adolf Galland

#War #Winter #Russia

All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Struggle #Moving #Winter

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing
-- Adrian Grenier

#Winter #Thinking #Doe

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#Eye #Winter #Snow

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.
-- Agustin Gomez-Arcos

#Death #Winter #The End Of The Day

In winter, some voices are like coats.
-- Ahlam Mosteghanemi

#Winter #Voice #Coats

The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Winter #Men #Thinking

Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!
-- Alan Bennett

#Depression #Cheer #Winter

The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
-- Alan Jay Lerner

#Summer #Winter #Order

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
-- Albert Camus

#Spring #Winter #Midst

The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
-- Albert Camus

#Summer #Winter #Invincible

Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.
-- Albert Camus

#Summer #Winter #Middle

Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks.
-- Alex Pacheco

#Winter #Animal #Snow

A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States Fish Commission. Important soundings were made by the United States Fish Commission steamer ALBATROSS in the Caribbean, during the winter of 1883-1884.
-- Alexander Agassiz

#Ocean #Taken #Winter

On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the day of migrating, bho baile gu beinn (from townland to moorland), from the winter homestead to the summer sheiling. The summer of their joy is come, the summer of the sheiling, the song, the pipe and the dance, when the people ascend the hill to the clustered bothies, overlooking the distant sea from among the fronded ferns and fragrant heather, where neighbour meets neighbour, and lover meets lover.
-- Alexander Carmichael

#Summer #Song #Winter

But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
-- Alexander Pope

#Winter #Blow #Dew

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
-- Alexander Pope

#Winter #Shining #Frost

In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.
-- Alexander Smith

#Rain #Winter #Wind

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.
-- Alexander Smith

#Winter #Doe #Scales

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Winter #Potatoes #Chickens

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Summer #Nice #Winter

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
-- Alexis Korner

#Winter #Movement #Development

Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?
-- Alfred Austin

#Flower #Winter #Dumb

So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.
-- Alfred Austin

#Winter #Snow #Rose

My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.
-- Alfred Stieglitz

#Winter #Snow #Storm

For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

#Spring #Rain #Winter

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.
-- Alice Cary

#Fall #Winter #Sunbeams

Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.
-- Alison Jolly

#Winter #Science #Sun

The other side of midnight’s hour strikes a herald thrice rung Seer, Shadow, Sun—together they come Sixteen winters hence—the light shall be eclipsed Leaving darkness to ascend beneath a sky bleeding fire
-- Alyson Noel

#Winter #Fire #Light

Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No return; no turning back. The past is gone, the future, black. Serpents gather in their nest, And she stands above the rest. Shadows hunt; she hunts the shadow. The moon is risen; she stands below. She views her world through the eyes of others. Black and white; there are no colors, As she looks down upon a shattered youth. A shattered mirror shows a shattered truth.
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#Strong #Eye #Winter

People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.
-- Amy Gerstler

#Laughter #Dark #Winter

She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.
-- Anais Nin

#Fall #Winter #June

Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
-- Anamika Mishra

#Winter #Celebration

We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of summer, and then gold covered the fields and forests, and then the whiteness again.
-- Anatoly Berezovoy

#Summer #Fall #Winter

And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.
-- Andrew McMahon

#Spring #Winter #Confusion

What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe.
-- Andrew Roberts

#Winter #Europe #History

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
-- Andrew Wyeth

#Fall #Winter #Waiting

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Winter #Snow #Childhood

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Winter #Snow #Special

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Winter #Artist #Years

I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.
-- Ann Romney

#Cancer #Winter #Boys

Some sins have no season. We are as likely to be angry in November as to lose our rag in March ... There is, though, something autumnal about greed, apple-cheeked and wheat-crowned, purpled knee-high in grapes; something summery in sloth, as the hammock creaks in the fly-drowsy heat; and more than a tickle of spring in lust, as birds pair and the sap rises. Among these, ingratitude is winter, the worst of seasons.
-- Ann Wroe

#Gratitude #Spring #Winter

Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain in mid-flow and numbs the hand, even in the very act of giving. It is a sin of silence, absence and omission, as winter's sin is a lack of light; a sin against charity, which otherwise warms the heart and, in the truest sense, makes the world turn.
-- Ann Wroe

#Flower #Heart #Winter

And it seemed to me that there were fires Flying till dawn without number And I never found out things-those Strange eyes of his-what colour? Everything trembling and singing and Were you my enemy or my friend, Winter was it or summer?
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Summer #Eye #Winter

Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention.
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Song #Fall #Winter

But I shall like my battle. This sort of day puts one in mood for it. Plenty of wood in the shed, jam and potatoes and apples in the cellar, hay and oats and Cressy in the barn. Pooh - what is winter?
-- Anne Bosworth Greene

#Winter #Oats #Apples

The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal.
-- Anne Bosworth Greene

#Winter #Ice #Snow

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
-- Anne Bradstreet

#Spring #Winter #Pleasant

Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.
-- Anne Carson

#Winter #Eyelashes #Hands

Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#Spring #Winter #Long

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#Strong #Holiday #Winter

Write about winter in the summer.
-- Annie Dillard

#Summer #Writing #Winter

Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them.
-- Anthea Turner

#Summer #Winter #Thinking

And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.
-- Anthony Burgess

#Brother #Real #Winter

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
-- Anthony Trollope

#Winter #Men #May

Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?
-- Apolo Ohno

#Dream #Winter #Helping Others

I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.
-- Apolo Ohno

#Winter #Ice #Two

If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Winter #Journey #Eggs

Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which will not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers: that is worth a good deal. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Winter #Journey #Years

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Passion #Winter #Journey

For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Winter #Journey #Organization

it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.
-- Ardyth Kennelly

#Winter #Iron #Armor

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.
-- Aristotle

#Summer #Winter #Quality

When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will be parked and the name of the county sheriff to contact in case I don't get home.
-- Aron Ralston

#Home #Winter #Names

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.
-- Arsene Houssaye

#Spring #Heart #Winter

We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
-- Arthur Golden

#Spring #Winter #Self

Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.
-- Arthur Ransome

#Summer #Book #Winter

I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?
-- Audrey Niffenegger

#Tired #Sleep #Winter

Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.
-- Bai Juyi

#Autumn #Dark #Winter

For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon. But the danger posed by war to all humanity-and to our planet-is at least matched by climate change.
-- Ban Ki-moon

#War #Winter #Humanity

In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night.
-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Winter #Night #Ebb And Flow

Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes and devastating weather patterns that global warming is beginning to set off around the world.. the frequency and intensity of which are breaking records thousands of years old.
-- Barack Obama

#Summer #Winter #Years

Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons.
-- Barbara Holland

#Spring #Real #Winter

There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.
-- Bat Masterson

#Summer #Winter #July

There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.
-- Bat Masterson

#Summer #Winter #Men

We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.
-- Bat Masterson

#Inspirational #Summer #Winter

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
-- Ben Aaronovitch

#Dream #Book #Winter

The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Heart #Winter #Cold

Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."
-- Bernard Williams

#Spring #Winter #Fever

Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.
-- Bernie Siegel

#Morning #Winter #World

It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.
-- Beth Henley

#Sister #Winter #Years

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.
-- Bette Midler

#Spring #Winter #Snow

It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.
-- Betty Smith

#Children #Grief #Winter

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
-- Bill Nye

#Spring #Winter #Long

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
-- Bill Veeck

#Baseball #Winter #Two

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
-- Billy Connolly

#Travel #Winter #June

Boston has two seasons: August and winter.
-- Billy Herman

#Winter #August #Boston

Don't you like when the winter's gone, And all of a sudden it starts gettin' warm? The trees and the grass start lookin' fresh, And the sun and sky be lookin' their best...
-- Biz Markie

#Rap #Winter #Sky

Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths...by 2050...Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.
-- Bjorn Lomborg

#Winter #Years #Europe

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
-- Black Elk

#Winter #Men #Thinking

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
-- Bob Seger

#Writing #Winter #Stuff

I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
-- Bob Seger

#Summer #Winter #Play

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.
-- Bob Uecker

#Sports #Winter #Years

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.
-- Bob Uecker

#Sports #Winter #Slumps