Winter Quotes

1406 quotes by 987 authors

The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In… — T.H. White
The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now,… — Hal Borland
My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows… — Toni Morrison
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and… — John Burroughs
The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricityâ€”like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when… — John Burroughs
All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer… — John Burroughs
And if there are no cars or planes, and if no oneâ€™s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away… — Stephen King
The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in… — Wallace Stevens
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted… — Ethel Smyth
Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of… — Diablo Cody
Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold… — Langston Hughes
The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the… — Jack Kerouac
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear… — John Keats
Let now the chimneys blaze And cups oâ€™erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures… — Thomas Campion
Even winter â€” the hardest season, the most implacable â€” dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything… — Clive Barker
...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower. — Robert Fuller Murray
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery. — Hal Borland

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