Winter Quotes - page 3

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature. View quote
James Frazer
Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
[W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on this earth... and as someone who believes, according to my faith, I will go to Heaven when I die, I am pretty sure that there is duck hunting in Heaven! View quote
Mike Huckabee
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit. View quote
Norman Mailer
A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Men who fight wars in Winter don't live till Spring. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Slayer of the Winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the Summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not thy victory vain, Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky. View quote
William Morris
Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there? (William Saroyan)
I see grace growth best in winter. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. View quote
Willa Cather
Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move. View quote
Dinah Craik
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. View quote
Elizabeth Bowen
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. View quote
Edith Sitwell
In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
I should be glad of loneliness And hours that go on broken wings, A thirsty body, a tired heart And the unchanging ache of things, If I could make a single song As lovely and as full of light, As hushed and brief as a falling star On a winter night. View quote
Sara Teasdale
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. View quote
Edith Wharton
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold. View quote
Joseph Campbell
There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. (Billy Connolly)
And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set. View quote
Ralph Ellison
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. View quote
Brendan Behan
No animal, according to the rules of animal etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again. View quote
René Char