Snow Quotes - Page 38

• What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Morning, New York, Book

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• Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

  George Herbert

  Grief, May, Cold

  George Herbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1855). “The Poetical Works of G. H. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, by ... R. A. Willmott”, p.207

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• Winter has arrived in North London. Snow has settled.
  The white snow looks beautiful and covers everything my eyes can see, yet beneath the incomprehensible beauty, the snow freezes greenery which struggles to breathe.
  Green leaves freeze from existence as children scream go faster to fathers who push them along in upside down bin lids, as they make the most of their schools being closed.

  Craig Stone

  Beautiful, Children, Father

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• Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life and death. In the long glare of day, the snows descend Upon that Mountain; none beholds them there, Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sun, Or the sunbeams dart through them.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sight, Long, Life And Death

  1816 'Mont Blanc'.

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• O proudly name their names who bravely sail| To seek brave lost in Arctic snows and seas!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sea, Names, Brave

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.188

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• 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, Ice

  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

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• Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.

  Stephen Leacock

  Fall, Mean, Men

  1942 My Remarkable Uncle,'Three Score and Ten'.

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• If you walk on snow you cannot hide your footprints.

  George Herbert

  Footprint, Evidence, Walks

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• A snow yeare, a rich yeare.

  George Herbert

  Rich

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.320

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• Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Hands, Hollywood

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Eye, Men, Littles

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.154

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• God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice!
  Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds!
  And they too have a voice, you piles of snow,
  And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  God, Fall, Voice

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.118

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• We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Grief, Rain, Fall

  Berthold Auerbach (1896*). “On the Heights”

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• The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused.

  Lucretius

  Clouds, Light, Wind

  "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, III. 18,

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• All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

  John Ruskin

  White, Progress, Generations

  John Ruskin (188?). “Works: "A joy forever." The art of England. "Our fathers have told us." The laws of Fesole. The pleasures of England. Fiction fair and foul. Notes on the construction of sheepfolds. Inaugural address ... Cambridge School of Art, October 29th, 1858. The storm cloud of the nineteenth century. The opening of the Crystal Palace”

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• Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

  Betty MacDonald

  Dirty, Sorrow, Littles

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• When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears,
  A sable void the barren earth appears;
  The meads no more their former verdure boast,
  Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost;
  The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return;
  From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow,
  Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below,
  Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies,
  Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.

  George Crabbe

  Spring, Winter, Blow

  George Crabbe (1861). “The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe”, p.8

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• On turf and curb and bower-roof
  The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof;
  It paves with pearl the garden-walk;
  And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk
  And snivering stem its magic weaves
  A mantle fair as lily-leaves.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Garden, Ivory, Magic

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• The speckled sky is dim with snow,
  The light flakes falter and fall slow;
  Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale,
  Silently drops a silvery veil; And all the valley is shut in
  By flickering curtains gray and thin.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Fall, Light, Sky

  John Townsend Trowbridge (1871). “Vagabonds: And Other Poems”, p.42

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• I like to go on stage with a variety, with some stuff that's been around for a handful of years, some stuff from the last year, some stuff is from last week, and some stuff is brand spanking new. Those are the moments that excite me - when I'm coming up to a brand new bit. The more virgin the snow, the more fun it is to run on.

  Brian Regan

  Running, Fun, Years

  Source: www.charlestoncitypaper.com

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• Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Fall, Moon, Moonlight

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Another Part of the Wood”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.

  Alice Meynell

  Men, Feet, Silence

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.452, eBookIt.com

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• The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Moon, Hills, Lays

  Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Trevelyan Moorman (1971). “Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; the Grasmere journals, 1800-1803”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.

  Kenneth Grahame

  White, World, Firsts

  Kenneth Grahame (2015). “The Reluctant Dragon”, p.2, Booklassic

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• One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.

  Merle Shain

  Heartbreak, Running, Dog

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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