Snowstorms Quotes

• When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.

  Eudora Welty

  Mother, Children, Ice Cream

  Eudora Welty, Pearl Amelia McHaney (2009). “Occasions: Selected Writings”, p.157, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

  George William Curtis

  New Year, Determination, Years

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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, Snow

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

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• Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds

  Barack Obama

  Winter, Night, Clouds

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• At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Stupid, Sleep, Men

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.

  John Muir

  Heart, Hearty, Enjoyed

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.321, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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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, Snow

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• There's always another storm. It's the way the world works. Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms. Some are fierce and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately, but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Eye, Storm, Needs

  "Fire Study (The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 3)". Book by Maria V. Snyder, February 1, 2013.

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• We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof. And missed Los Angeles by 3,500 miles at the end of the trip and ending up in the arctic in a snowstorm.

  Richard Branson

  Adventure, Fire, Half

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• For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Self, Years, Payment

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• I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Mom, Car

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• Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same?

  David Bowie

  Nice, Thinking, Brain

  Song: Sweet Thing Candidate Sweet Thing, Album: Diamond Dogs, 1974

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• In my arms is a woman who has given me a Skywatcher's Cloud Chart, a woman who knows all my secrets, a woman who knows just how messed up my mind is, how many pills I'm on, and yet she allows me to hold her anyway. There's something honest about all this, and I cannot imagine any other woman lying in the middle of a frozen soccer field with me - in the middle of a snowstorm even - impossibly hoping to see a single cloud break free of a nimbostratus.

  Matthew Quick

  Soccer, Lying, Clouds

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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• Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

  Bernard Williams

  Democratic

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• When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'

  Philip Roth

  Children, Believe, Winter

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• The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when we see in the storm-clouds as it were, the veins and ore-beds of it? I imagine it is equally abundant in winter, and more equable and better tempered. Who ever breasted a snowstorm without being excited and exhilarated, as if this meteor had come charged with latent auroræ of the North, as doubtless it has? It is like being pelted with sparks from a battery.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Winter, Thinking

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Writing, Thinking

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There is a glorious pattern for every man's life, an individual, perfect patter. No two people are alike ... No two leaves are alike-no two snowstorms-no two sets of fingerprints. No two lives are alike, yet each life holds a divine pattern of unfoldment, a great and holy destiny, rich in achievement and honor. As you live true to the pattern of yourself, that deep, inner self, you will unfold as perfect, as joyous, as naturally beautiful as the tree will reach its full measure of fulfillment.

  Annalee Skarin

  Beautiful, Destiny, Men

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• I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us

  Alice Hoffman

  Believe, Fate, Thinking

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• The Northeast is being hit with a major snowstorm. Forecasters said they've haven't seen a whiteout like this since last week's Oscar nominations.

  Conan O'Brien

  Oscars, Nominations, Lasts

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• A student undergoing a word association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "Because everything does."

  Honor Tracy

  Sex, Mind, Doe

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• Tongues wrangled dark at a man.
  He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone.
  In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dark, Men, Solitude

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are three sorts of human being who are particularly likely still to see point in it and befriend it. They are poets, scientists and children. Inside each of us, I suggest, representatives of all these groups can be found.

  Mary Midgley

  Children, Science, Race

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• My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds of our friends and neighbors gathered in the elementary school gym on that Sunday afternoon, despite an ugly Maine snowstorm. They listened to the thoughtful searching debates and saw us cast our votes. How could anyone suggest we didn't know exactly what we were doing? 'What's the point of electing someone who doesn't believe in the American people?' they asked. 'If she wants to ignore us now when she's only a candidate, what will she do as the President?'

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Teenage, Children, Believe

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• Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Stars, Dark, Space

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.208, Seal Press

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