Winter Quotes

1406 Winter quotes by 951 unique authors

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 o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures… — Thomas Campion
Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — 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
We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the… — Richard Le Gallienne
We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our… — Rainer Maria Rilke
In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring. — Unknown Author
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. — John Fowles
I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple… — Gregg Easterbrook
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that… — Guy Finley
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
If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven't been on a diet since… — Victoria Moran
During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky. — Paul Nurse
This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could… — Paul Nurse
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… — Aron Ralston
But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life… — Mary Balogh
.......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their… — P.J. O'Rourke
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London -… — John Landis

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