Snow Quotes - Page 24

• The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.

  Peter Sagal

  Sports, Winter, Ice

  "Lightning Fill In The Blank". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. May 2, 2015.

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• Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Running, Memories, Selfish

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.353, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied.

  Wilson Bentley

  Beautiful, Ice, Water

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• After a snowstorm is the best time to be in the woods, because all the empty beer and soda cans and candy wrappers disappear, and you don't have to try as hard to be in another time. Plus there's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Beautiful, Beer, Trying

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.31, Dial Press

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• Sister Eliza R. Snow was given a charge from the prophet Brigham Young to help lift and teach the sisters of the Church. She “taught that individual women could receive inspiration to guide them in their personal lives, their families, and their Church responsibilities. She said: ‘Tell the sisters to go forth and discharge their duties, in humility and faithfulness and the Spirit of God will rest upon them and they will be blest in their labors. Let them seek for wisdom instead of power and they will have all the power they have wisdom to exercise.’

  Eliza R. Snow

  Inspiration, Humility, Responsibility

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• Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!

  William Wordsworth

  Spring, Years, Grace

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.206

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• If flurries be the food of quests, snow on.

  Ian Doescher

  Quests, Ifs

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• Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.

  Florence King

  Dog, New York, Yellow

  Florence King (1976). “Southern ladies and gentlemen”

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• If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.

  Margaret Craven

  Growing Up, Home, Mountain

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• So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away.

  Susan Cooper

  Dark, Years, White

  Susan Cooper (2011). “The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels”, p.182, Candlewick Press

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• Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

  Susan Minot

  Sports, Miracle, Sugar

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• If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?

  Jennifer McMahon

  Water, Doe, Remember

  Jennifer McMahon (2014). “The Winter People: A Novel”, p.22, Anchor

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• The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Winter, Ice, May

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• I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Beauty, Ideas, Faces

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a man falling dead in the street of heart trouble. One night, all in one night, severe winter came, a white horse of snow rolling over Bountiful, snorting and rolling in its meadows, its fields.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Summer, Horse, Fall

  Ardyth Kennelly (1949). “The Peaceable Kingdom”

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• [On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.

  Dagmar Godowsky

  Music, Russia, Infinite

  Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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• We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

  Sam Riley

  Two, London, Panic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

  Douglas Coupland

  Men, Names, Canada

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• I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.

  Kate Bush

  Powerful, Thinking, Atmosphere

  "50 Words For Snow : A Conversation With Kate Bush". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2011.

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• If any has stumbled in his journey, there is a way back. The process is called repentance. Our Savior died to provide you and me that blessed gift. Though the path is difficult, the promise is real: 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow' (Isaiah 1:18).

  Thomas S. Monson

  Real, Blessed, Journey

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• Though Snow White might triumph in the tale, she will undoubtedly acquire a mirror after she marries, matures, and has children, and as the mirror reflects her aging and loss of beauty, she will be confronted by a young girl whose innocence and youth will spark her envy and hatred and perhaps drive her to eliminate her “competition.” It appears as though there is a vicious cycle that entraps women up through today. Everything is played out under the male gaze.

  Jack Zipes

  Girl, Children, Loss

  Jack Zipes (2011). “The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films”, p.116, Routledge

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• I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

  John J. Geddes

  Spring, Night, Sound

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• The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.

  George Herbert

  White, Filth

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• Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.

  George Herbert

  Water, Bread, Famine

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

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• Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.

  George Herbert

  Water, Pounds

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.323

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