Snow Quotes - page 3

I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to set the other side. (George Mallory)
We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow. View quote
John Gay
Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield. View quote
William Shenstone
The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
Take me home," Snow White said. "Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out. View quote
Donald Barthelme
Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. View quote
Andy Goldsworthy
The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined.An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
"Stotting" is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow. (Douglas Adams)
The cold blast at the casement beats; The window-panes are white; The snow whirls through the empty streets; It is a dreary night! View quote
Epes Sargent
This is the Hour of Lead Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow First Chill then Stupor then the letting go . View quote
Emily Dickinson
The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping-anon-anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone. View quote
William Wordsworth
So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness. View quote
Alfred Austin
Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful. View quote
Richard Stallman
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The giant trees are bending Their bare boughs weighed with snow; The storm is fast descending, And yet I cannot go. Clouds beyond clouds above me, Wastes beyond wastes below; But nothing drear can move me; I will not, cannot go. View quote
Emily Brontë
But pleasures are like poppies spread- You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river- A moment white-then melts forever. View quote
Robert Burns
When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town. (Robert Bridges)
What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky. View quote
Walter de la Mare
When I was your age - about, ooh, a thousand years ago - I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics. View quote
Mark Gatiss
Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. View quote
Markus Zusak
It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice. As you may expect, someone has died. View quote
Markus Zusak