First-sentence Quote by John Updike Download Open image ““First snow: it came this year late in November.”” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare First snow First-sentence
“I love early snow now, though. Especially snow that happens when you least expect it and just sprinkles down for a while. It feels… — Kate Messner Copy Share Image
“I thought, how magical, the first glimspe of snow. By March I would be sick of it, but here in this November instant those… — Beatriz Williams Copy Share Image
“Still, I remember a more expansive time when the first winter snowfall was a magical act of creation and cold seemed incapable of penetrating… — Eric Schaller Copy Share Image
“Every Autumn now my thoughts return to snow. Snow is something I identify myself with. Like my father, I am a snow person.” — Charlie English Copy Share Image
“Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“November comes And November goes, With the last red berries And the first white snows. With night coming early, And dawn coming late, And… — Elizabeth Coatsworth Copy Share Image
“Similarly, perhaps it never did snow that August in Vermont; perhaps there never were flurries in the night wind, and maybe no one else… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers, From those brown hills, have melted into spring.” — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“And in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned into slush.” — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“Later in the winter I'd tire of the snow, but Christmas snow was different.” — Marie Landry Copy Share Image
“It was the first morning of the first day of the new century. Snow blanketed the ground. Anything was possible.” — Jacqueline Kelly Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.” — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state. There wasn't… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
