Winter Quotes - Page 20

• Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

  James F. Cooper

  Motivational, Friendship, Spring

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• See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices.

  Charles Kingsley

  Easter, Sleep, Land

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.229, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

  Dorothy Parker

  Summer, Spring, Hate

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!

  Thomas Hood

  Morning, Fall, Autumn

  Thomas Hood (1864). “Poetical Works. --”, p.159

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• There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surface of water as it ripples in the breeze.... Even a wild dog's matted fur shows a lacy pattern if you look at it closely enough.

  Brunonia Barry

  Dog, Nature, Clouds

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• December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

  John J. Geddes

  Summer, Memories, Ponds

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• So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
  No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd
  With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,
  And whom today the Spring no more concerns.
  Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;
  This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part
  To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.
  Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,
  Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem
  The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Art, Spring, Flower

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frank Laurence Lucas (1933). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology”, p.169, CUP Archive

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• Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.

  Margaret Mead

  Spring, Lying, Frost

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.

  Hal Borland

  Spring, Garden, Forever

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• For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

  Toni Morrison

  Spring, Rain, Flower

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• Winter's done, and April's in the skies,
  Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!

  Charles G.D. Roberts

  Laughter, Spring, Eye

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• What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Sweet, Spring, Reality

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1882). “The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]”

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• When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces,
  The mother of months in meadow or plain
  Fills the shadows and windy places
  With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Mother, Spring, Rain

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair
  The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing,
  And Winter slumbering in the open air,
  Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Spring, Air

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.281

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• This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts generations rise trying once more to become the forest just beyond them tall enough to be called trees in their youth like aspen a bouquet of young beech is gathered they still wear last summer's leaves the lightest brown almost translucent how their stubbornness has decorated the winter woods.

  Grace Paley

  Summer, Spring, Heart

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• For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

  Janet Frame

  Spring, March, Cherry Blossom

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• Gone were but the Winter,
  Come were but the Spring,
  I would go to a covert
  Where the birds sing;
  
  Where in the whitethorn
  Singeth a thrush,
  And a robin sings
  In the holly-bush.
  
  Full of fresh scents
  Are the budding boughs
  Arching high over
  A cool green house:
  
  Full of sweet scents,
  And whispering air
  Which sayeth softly:
  We spread no snare;
  
  Here dwell in safety,
  Here dwell alone,
  With a clear stream
  And a mossy stone.
  
  Here the sun shineth
  Most shadily;
  Here is heard an echo
  Of the far sea,
  Though far off it be.

  Christina Rossetti

  Sweet, Spring, Echoes

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.11, OUP Oxford

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• Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Summer, Children

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• Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.

  John F. Kennedy

  Leadership, Country, Adversity

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• I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Home, Heart

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.10, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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• There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a breeze in summer, And snow in winter; And if vanities don't hang in my mind, I shall rejoice at any time and place.

  Wumen Huikai

  Summer, Spiritual, Spring

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• This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard winter because I want to give the best performance of my career at the Olympic Games! That is the only title I'm missing and I will do my best to take it!

  Peter Kauzer

  Athlete, Years, Games

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• Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Real, Athlete

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• Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons.

  Barbara Holland

  Spring, Real, Long

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• The last fling of winter is over ... The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality about it. It is warm now to the touch; it has come alive; it hides secrets that in a moment, in a little while, it will tell.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Dream, Spring, Secret

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