Quotes about winter
winter ice sky
The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound. Wallace Stevens
winter men ice
The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice....
winter night drawing
The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out. Samuel Beckett
winter might biting
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems. Samuel Lover
winter white swans
Swans in the winter air A white perfection have W. H. Auden
winter years rulers
O Winter, ruler of the inverted year! William Cowper
winter vintage play
Knitwear can play a vital part in layering. The simplicity of a lightweight cardigan makes it one of the best ways to layer outfits. I love granddad cardis for winter, worn over a vintage lace shirt, waistcoat and full skirt with slouchy boots. Twiggy
winter names bird
The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery. Hal Borland
winter two ease
There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.
winter white may
To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.
winter past may
You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not. Henry David Thoreau
winter students study
Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.
winter giving hypocrisy
How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called. Give me the goodness which has forgotten its own deeds,--which God has seen to be good, and let be.
winter woods fields
The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.
winter wind mountain
A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness. All things beside seem to be called in for shelter, and what stays out must be part of the original frame of the universe, and of such valor as God himself.
winter virtue warmth
In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.
winter sunshine fire
What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
winter roots littles
We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.
winter track giving
Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety to a winter's walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair.
winter animal men
The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them.
winter despair alcoholism
Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair. Jeffrey Eugenides
winter may canada
If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you may live in Canada Jeff Foxworthy
winter years games
I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to celebrate the 21st Olympic Winter Games. Jacques Rogge
winter waste twenties
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. George Sand
winter car lovely
I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too. Jim Harrison
winter hours fisherman
A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels. Herbert Hoover
winter skins coats
She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot. Jhumpa Lahiri
winter sun meadows
Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter. George Bernard Shaw
winter endless
What am I doing here in this endless winter? Franz Kafka
winter enemy winter-days
He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy. George Herbert
winter frost firsts
He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.
winter men vanity
Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.
winter night vegetation
Winter is the night of vegetation.