Frost Quotes

176 quotes by 134 authors

O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs… — William Carlos Williams
Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The… — Carl Sagan
It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away… — Theodore Parker
It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which… — Washington Irving
Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many… — Roger Swain
Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost. — John Dryden
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a… — Lydia M. Child
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. — Paul Muldoon
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was — Paul Muldoon
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces… — Walter Pater
I have now lived long enough to know that, whatever our situation, our troubles melt and disappear like frost in the morning sun when we… — James E. Faust
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. — Alexander Pope
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime. — Thomas Hood
The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate… — Charles Alexander Eastman
Winters with strong frost and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will cease to exist at our latitudes. — Mojib Latif
You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it's open season on all suckheads. — Wesley Snipes
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs. — Georg Trakl
The many varieties and wonderful colors of the modern dahlia make it a totally different flower from the one our grandmothers knew. The names are… — Helena Rutherfurd Ely

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