Snow Quotes

• Kindness is like snow-it beautifies everything it covers.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Kindness, Winter Snow

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• A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fear, Winter, Wind

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• Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.

  Jess Lair

  Media, Life Is Like, Steps

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• When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Thrill, Growing, Firsts

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• I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

  Lewis Carroll

  Good Night, Summer, Nature

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.4, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.

  William Hamilton Gibson

  Fall, Winter, Comes And Goes

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• I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

  Mae West

  Funny, Witty, Women

  In Joseph Weintraub Peel Me a Grape (1975) p. 47

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• The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

  J. B. Priestley

  Fall, Childhood, Magic

  "Garden Witchery : Magick from the Ground Up". Book by by Ellen Dugan, p. 206, 2003.

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• The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

  e. e. cummings

  Winter, White, Giving

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “ViVa”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon.

  Ikkyu

  Rain, Moon, Wind

  Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.

  Betty White

  Cities, Inspire, Together

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• The very fact of snow is such an amazement.

  Roger Ebert

  Facts, Amazement

  Twitter post from Dec 4, 2010

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• Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Fall, Advice, Deeper

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• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

  Carl Reiner

  Nature, Winter, Weather

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• What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Winter, Weather

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• Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Winter, Childhood, Provoking

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

  Glen Duncan

  Cities, Gestures, Void

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• It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There is no dirt, no footprints, just a layer of seamless, indiscriminate nature connecting everything to everything else. Isn't that the amazing thing about the natural world? You can tear it down, you can drill holes in it, you can ignore its power with all your might, but one morning you wake up and it has selflessly given despite all of our abuse. I think I'll make a snowman.

  Andrew McMahon

  Morning, Thinking, Abuse

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• Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Rain, Sunshine

  "Inner Journey". Book by Ratna Joshi (p. 99), January 14, 2010.

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• Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity

  Novala Takemoto

  Love, Sweet, Fall

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• A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

  Susan Orlean

  Fall, Sky, Wonder

  "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.

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• One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

  Susan Orlean

  Children, Joy, Reason

  "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• As chaste as unsunned snow.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Chaste

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 2, sc. 5, l. 12

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• Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.

  Mary Oliver

  Stars, Fall, Tree

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