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• We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Men, White

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• When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

  Lucy Larcom

  Artist, Years, Sky

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• When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.

  Christian Louboutin

  Summer, Light, Drawing

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• The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

  Samuel Lover

  Biting, Icicles, Necks

  Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.356

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• Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

  Hilary Mantel

  Book, Night, Osmosis

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• I have a very basic leg. But it has a silicon cover on it. I have a flat foot leg, a high heel leg and then I have a leg which, in the winter, I have to ski in and in the summer I swap it into my roller blades.

  Heather Mills

  Summer, High Heels, Feet

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Summer, Children, Father

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• It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now.

  Mira Nair

  Years, Way, Dresses

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• What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

  Anna Neagle

  Country, Rain, Flower

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• Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?

  Apolo Ohno

  Dream, Helping Others, Impact

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• I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.

  Apolo Ohno

  Ice, Two, Car

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• Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Easter, Moving

  Forbes, Volume 180, Issues 8-13, 2007.

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• I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.

  Susan Orlean

  Children, Ohio, Long

  "Drifting" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and the hens start laying again, that's all the notice I'll need to know that winter has passed.

  Susan Orlean

  Needs, Hens, Firsts

  "Seasonal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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• Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.

  Susan Orlean

  Country, White, Car

  "Drifting" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2011.

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• But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

  Gordon Parks

  Autumn, Past, Entering

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• The Winter Kate-House of Harlow 1960 customer is a multi-tasker, therefore it’s important that they are able to put together an outfit with ease and elegance. Pieces that are easy to mix within their own wardrobe. Easy dressing while maintaining a well put together look.

  Nicole Richie

  House, Important, Together

  "Nicole Richie Grows Up". "Interview Magazine" Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2010.

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• I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

  Nicole Richie

  Design Process, House, 1960s

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• California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

  Eric Ripert

  Florida, Weather, California

  "Q & A With Eric Ripert: His New Book, More Fun With PBS + Le Bernardin's Numbers". LA Weekly Interview, www.laweekly.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

  Alexei Sayle

  Summer, Nice, Italian

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• I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.

  Taylor Swift

  Smell, Feelings, Cinnamon

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• I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Slumps

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Butterfly, Imagination

  "Solstice Joy" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2011.

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• We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.

  Gary Zukav

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  "Solstice Joy" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2011.

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• Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and generally appearing throughout the late fall and winter months.

  Paul Stamets

  Fall, Mushrooms, Feet

  "Can Eating Enoki Mushrooms Lower Your Cancer Risk?" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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