Snow Quotes - Page 34

• I'm a former hippie; I did drugs back when they were healthy. The only time I ever did LSD was at Disney World. I didn't go there - it came to me. I was Snow White.

  Jim David

  Hippie, White, Drug

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• I read about a guy in Michigan this winter who was cruising along on his snow mobile. "Whoo hoo!" Didn't see a barbed wire fence. FOOM - cut his head right off. And I'll be honest with you, my first thought was... That's how I want to go. Having the time of your life, "whoo hoo!" FOOM. I want the last thought in my head to be, 'Hey, check out that headless snow mobile driver. He's got a jacket just like mine.'

  David Crowe

  Winter, Cutting, Guy

  "Bob & Tom Comedy All-Stars Tour". Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Assessment, Building

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• Over lowland, over snow and tundra span arches, raised by the rising sun. See: the light is winning! And the stream is streaming towards open minds and towards seeds dreaming of growth.

  Einar Skjaeraasen

  Dream, Winter, Winning

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• It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.

  Herodotus

  Horse, Rain, Journey

  Herodotus (1961). “Herodotus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

  Pat Conroy

  Girl, Hands, Water

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.

  Lisa See

  Husband, Flower, Love For Her

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.153, A&C Black

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• Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist through which we get glimpses now and then of paths which may be deceptive. If we stand still we shall be frozen to death. If we take the wrong road we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether there is any right one. What must we do? Be strong and of a good courage. Act for the best, hope for the best, and take what comes. . . . If death ends all, we cannot meet death better.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Strong, Thinking, Mountain

  Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.353

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• To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.

  W. G. Sebald

  Summer, Fall, Men

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.

  W. G. Sebald

  Children, Dark, Ducks

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.136, New Directions Publishing

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• Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone

  Josh Ritter

  Long, Gone, Long Time

  Song: Snow Is Gone

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• It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for himself and his fellow man. The painter will look around him . . . and finding everything good, will strive to communicate that feeling through a portrayal of the essentials of sunlight, or snow, or tree or tragic cloud, or human face, according to his power and individuality.

  J. E. H. MacDonald

  Writing, Men, Artist

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• When Eddie Gray plays on snow, he doesn't leave any footprints.

  Don Revie

  Play, Footprint, Gray

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• Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Silence, Would Be, Not Sure

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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• What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of snow when all night long the only sounds you heard were dogs that parked at trains that passed so far away they took a short cut through your dreams and no one even woke. It was the war that changed that. It was. After the Great War for Civilization - sleep was different everywhere.

  Timothy Findley

  Dream, Dog, War

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• If only you could hear
  the sound of snow

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Sound, Ifs

  Hakuin Ekaku (2010). “Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin”, p.51, Shambhala Publications

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• O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire,
  What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn
  Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn
  Of death! Far sooner in midsummer tire
  The streams than under ice. June could not hire
  Her roses to forego the strength they learn
  In sleeping on thy breast.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Heart, Sleep, Loss

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1891). “A Calendar of Sonnets”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• The Snow-drop, Winter's timid child,
  Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears.

  Mary Robinson

  Children, Winter, Tears

  Mary Robinson (1999). “Mary Robinson: Selected Poems”, p.323, Broadview Press

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• Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up safely my roses and lillies and the rest for their winter sleep beneath the snow, where I never forget them, but ever dream of their wakening in happy summers yet to be.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Dream, Sleep

  Celia Thaxter (1894). “An Island Garden”

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• The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beach, Snowboarding, Land

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• February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dirty, Winter, Two

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• Surely as cometh the Winter, I know
  There are Spring violets under the snow.

  Robert Henry Newell

  Spring, Winter, Violet

  Robert Henry Newell (1871). “Versatilities”, p.16

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• Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white;
  And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still;
  No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill,
  And willow stems grow daily red and bright.
  These are days when ancients held a rite
  Of expiation for the old year's ill,
  And prayer to purify the new year's will.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  New Year, Prayer, Lying

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1891). “A Calendar of Sonnets”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Come when the rains
  Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,
  While the slant sun of February pours
  Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach!
  The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps
  And the broad arching portals of the grove
  Welcome thy entering.

  William C. Bryant

  Rain, Light, Ice

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Winter Piece”

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• I stood beside a hill
  Smooth with new-laid snow,
  A single star looked out
  From the cold evening glow.
  There was not other creature
  That saw what I could see,
  I stood and watched the evening star
  As long as it watched me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Long, Evening

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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