Winter Quotes - page 2

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals -- apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. (Mark Twain)
Winter is come and gone,But grief returns with the revolving year. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. View quote
Richard Adams
There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter. View quote
Hermann Maier
Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action. View quote
Damon Hill
Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. View quote
Geraldo Rivera
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 of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football. View quote
Gregg Easterbrook
My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter. View quote
Lizzie Borden
Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. View quote
Marvin Olasky
Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any. (Otis Williams)
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below. View quote
Robert Fitzgerald
As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring. View quote
Russ Carnahan
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor. View quote
Solomon Ortiz
While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best. View quote
Tom Allen
...I'm sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true: many people die from cold related deaths every winter, and here are studies that say that climate change in certain areas of the world would help those individuals. View quote
Dana Perino
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance. View quote
Yoko Ono
This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not. View quote
George Eliot
The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo, the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time... For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio with broken windows in the winter, or taking a nap on somebody's porch in the summer. View quote
Willem de Kooning
I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time. (Ted Kennedy)
It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep. View quote
James Frey
Behold a silly tender babe, In freezing winter night, In homely manger trembling lies; Alas! a piteous sight. View quote
Robert Southwell
He seems very mournful, but there is all the winter still to be survived. He no longer lives in years; he is down to seasons. Finally it will become single nights. View quote
James Salter
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools. View quote
Henry Beston