Ice Quotes - Page 14

• Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Land, Names, Israel

  "At Last, Zion: Israel and the Fate of the Jews". The Weekly Standard, www.freeman.org. May 11, 1998.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Too much ice is really bad for polar bears.

  Willie Soon

  Too Much, Bears, Polar Bears

  "Willie Soon: 'Too Much Ice Is Really Bad for Polar Bears'" by Sabrina Shankman, insideclimatenews.org. February 24, 2015.

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.

  Marian Burros

  Food, Scotch, Ice Cream

  44 Copy quote

• Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again.

  Boman Irani

  Ice Cream, Taste, Cream

  4 Copy quote

• As a small child me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.

  Erin O'Connor

  Dream, Children, Ice Cream

  "Erin O'Connor: 'I burnt my parents' lovely new kitchen down. But they forgave me in the end'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Land, Water, Doubt

  Pierre Trudeau during House of Commons Debate, October 24, 1969.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.

  Matthew Sharpe

  Heart, Splinters, Lava

  7 Copy quote

• Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

  Marge Piercy

  Blood, Wind, Weather

  1983 Stone, Paper, Knife,'TheWeight'.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lonely, Sleep, White

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.59

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first.

  Philip Larkin

  Thinking, Feet, Agony

  Letter to J.B.Sutton, October 30, 1949.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

  Bode Miller

  Fun, Kids, Winning

  "Bad boy bode" by Bill Saporito, James Graff, Helen Scott-Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Ridiculous, Life Is, Slippery

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3093, e-artnow

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm old school. I was taught that ice was for bourbon, not for your arm.

  Rod Beck

  School, Arms, Taught

  6 Copy quote

• Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle , on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair holding his wrists like Lifar and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Thinking, Hair

  "The Lost World". Book by Randall Jarrell, p. 159, 1965.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.

  Sophocles

  Pride, Boys, Doors

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.59, Harvard University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price.
  I'm throwing the dice in the air.
  Why must we learn it the hard way
  And play the game of life with your heart?

  Yoko Ono

  Heart, Air, Games

  "Song: 'Walking On Thin Ice'". 1981.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountain-side with its thick-ribbed ice.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Sunshine, Grieving, Grace

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 82), 1895.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost. In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Horizon, Able, Compass

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 88), 1895.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.

  Kingsley Amis

  Race, Way, Sober

  Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Asking a girl if she's alright is like jaywalking across a black ice-covered 4 lane street: you think you can make it safely to the other side, but you're more likely to slip and fall to a most certain death.

  David Bowick

  Girl, Fall, Thinking

  9 Copy quote

• Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wind, East, Blast

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.190

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ice and iron cannot be welded.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Iron

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.1784, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles?

  Stephen King

  Queens, Ice Cream, Dairy

  "The Stand". Book by Stephen King, 1978.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's not a model if it's full-scale, Tomkinson, it's an icebreaker.

  Michael Palin

  Size, Models, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Mr. Ellis". TV Series "Ripping Yarns" ("Tomkinson's Schooldays", 1976), www.imdb.com. 1976-1979.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Shadow, Age, Together

  Letter to James F. Morton (16 May 1926), in "Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 192), 2000.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source