Winter Quotes

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.

It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast! It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed!

The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.

Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.

I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.

December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared.

Winter is the night of vegetation.

While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

She thanked God that life was not always winter, that spring always came at last to chase away the cold and heaviness, and to release one to warmth and movement again.

I'm a cold winter morning, y'all Summer's Eve.

Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.

Cold indeed, and labor lost: Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

When I breathe, This sound in my chest Lonelier than the winter wind

Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.

Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!

What am I doing here in this endless winter?

Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person

A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well.

She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust March with its peck of dust, Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers, Nor even May, whose flowers One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.

Remember: life is a rhythm between day and night, summer and winter. It is a continuous rhythm. Never stop anywhere! Be moving! And the bigger the swing, the deeper your experience will be.

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.

Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.