Snow Quotes - Page 28

• Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

  Herodotus

  Rain, Night, Heat

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.718, OUP Oxford

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• Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

  John J. Geddes

  Christmas, Stars, Healing

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• I'm that neighborhood blizzard flooding these streets with snow.

  Kool G Rap

  Rap, Hip Hop, Neighborhood

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• And while you was bangin on tables, I was bangin Snow White.

  PMD

  Rap, White, Hip Hop

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• Our shipment of mowers was lost at sea and while we waited, winter descended and covered our green lawns with snow. That taught me a key lesson, the importance of timing. The shipping company lost the lawnmowers! By the time they showed up no one wanted them, as you can't cut grass when it's covered with snow.

  Terry Matthews

  Mistake, Cutting, Winter

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• The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

  Tony Snow

  Peace, Two, Oil

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• To Time it never seems that he is brave
  To set himself against the peaks of snow
  To lay them level with the running wave,
  Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low,
  But only grave, contemplative and grave.

  Robert Frost

  Running, Lying, Brave

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

  Ezra Pound

  Fear, Wind, Feet

  Ezra Pound (1957). “Selected Poems”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Wind, Political

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.226, Graphic Arts Books

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• Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

  Alan Coren

  Funny, Humor, Order

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.184, Canongate Books

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• You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Thinking, Fog, Storm

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• Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.

  James Schuyler

  Fall, Eye, Dark

  James Schuyler (1969). “Freely Espousing: Poems”

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• You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Reform, Paper, Noise

  "Great speeches of the 20th century: Emmeline Pankhurst's Freedom or death". www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.

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• Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north there is no need to worry about the snow. You will get plenty each year. If you live in California or Texas you needn't worry about rain because we won't receive any.

  Jack White

  Zero, Rain, Mean

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• But I would rather have snow. Snow is the on.y weather I really like. Nothing makes me less grumpy than snow. I can sit by a window for hours watching it fall. The silence of snowfall. You can use that. It's best when there's background lighting, for example a street lamp. Or when you go outside and let it flutter down on you. That's real riches, that is.

  Erlend Loe

  Real, Fall, Weather

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• I'm still dominant and that's what matters, ... But rain, snow, sleet, it doesn't matter. I'm going to go out and try and win a gold medal.

  Justin Gatlin

  Rain, Winning, What Matters

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• The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece of carpeting, empty and naked plains, silent and uninterrupted stretches with nothing to alter the homogeneity of their continuity. I love wide, homogenous worlds, unstaked, unlimited like the sea, like high snows, deserts, and steppes.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Roots, Sea, Naked

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• The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Mountain, Ifs, Smoke

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.66, Vintage

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• THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Country, Tunnels, Long

  Yasunari Kawabata (1969). “Snow Country and Thousand Cranes”

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• He'd be better off shoveling snow.

  Richard Strauss

  Musical, Better Off

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• There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March

  Jane Hirshfield

  Light, Doors, Red Leaves

  Jane Hirshfield (1997). “The lives of the heart”, Perennial

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• The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, School, Army

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• My boss at Christmas was a lot of fun: "I want you to look in your pay envelopes and you'll know that I keep the Christmas spirit around here. Because in each and every envelope you'll find ... snow."

  David Ketchum

  Funny, Boss, Looks

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• True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

  Edward Hoagland

  Color, Track, Solitude

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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• Silent night, holy
  night, when the bough flies from the tree
  and is hung everywhere, when
  from tables the crusts fly,
  when the gifts begin to tremble
  because lovelessness walks through the world,
  because it snarls at you, barks at you from the snow,
  and the silver ribbons rip and the tinsel rustles silvery,
  and the silver and gold, and a golden word
  come to you on which you choke
  because you have been sold and betrayed,
  and because it does not suffice that for you
  one is redeemed who once died.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Rip, Night, Tree

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