Winter Months Quotes

• It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

  John Burroughs

  Winter, Fire, Air

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.14

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• Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

  Edith Sitwell

  Home, Winter, Weather

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.176, A&C Black

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• While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

  Tom Allen

  Character, Winter, Months

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

  Bill Watterson

  Winter, Bad Mood, Cold

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• Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

  Plutarch

  Summer, Winter, Land

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• There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

  Ruth Stout

  Summer, Country, Spring

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• One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

  Shirley Ann Grau

  Winter, Pet, Stuff

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• Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

  Stanley Crawford

  Winter, Thinking, Luxury

  Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.55, UNM Press

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• Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

  Ruth Stout

  Country, Winter, Snow

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• I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

  Will Rogers

  Atheist, Winter, Thinking

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• What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Winter, Weather

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  In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.

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• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

  William Blake

  Life, Thinking Of You, Nature

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (1905). “Collected Poems”, p.165, Psychology Press

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• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Change, Meaningful

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• The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Football, Winter

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• Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Lying, Winter

  1918 My Antonia, bk.2, ch.7.

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• People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Summer

  'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

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• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Now is the winter of our discontent.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Merchant Of Venice

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, Winter, Clouds

  "Ode to the West Wind" l. 70 (1819)

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• I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Fall, Autumn, Winter

  Andrew Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art (1979). “Works”

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• Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

  Candace Bushnell

  Believe, Winter, Snow

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• The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Winter, Snow, Soil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

  e. e. cummings

  Winter, White, Snow

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “ViVa”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company

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