It's a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, "Momma, do we believe in winter?" (Philip Roth)

It's a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, "Momma, do we believe in winter?"

Philip Roth

Related topics

believe child family joke snowstorm tiny watching window winter momma

Related quotes

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. View quote
Albert Einstein
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. View quote
Al Franken
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. View quote
Robertson Davies
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. View quote
Leonhard Euler