Winter Quotes - Page 26

• It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.

  Walter Alston

  Summer, June, Bother

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• Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

  Omar Khayyam

  Spiritual, Spring, Wings

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1993). “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every morning, even in the bitterest winter, she stood before the chapel door until it opened at four and remained there until after the last Mass. Out from her Caughnawaga cabin at dawn and straight-way to chapel to adore the Blessed Sacrament, hear every Mass; back again during the day to hear instruction, and at night for a last prayer or Benediction.

  Kateri Tekakwitha

  Morning, Prayer, Blessed

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• Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Science

  Bertrand Russell (1943). “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity”

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• My daily Nespresso coffee, an unexpected shaft of sunlight through the window on a winter's day, my bargain Missoni sunglasses (70 percent off!)

  Sophie Kinsella

  Grateful, Coffee, Sunglasses

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• It is reported from 'Ubayd ibn 'Umayr (radiAllahu anhu) that he said: "It used to be said when winter came: O people of the Qur`an, the night has become long so you can pray (more) and the day has become short for you to fast."

  Abu Nu`aym

  Wisdom, Islamic, Night

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• Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Death, Art

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 258

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• Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter.

  Densey Clyne

  Autumn, Garden, Giving

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• Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths...by 2050...Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Years, Europe, Energy

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• It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.

  Beth Henley

  Sister, Years, Interesting

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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• I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Eight, Yellow

  'Walden' (1854) 'Winter Visitors'

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• Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.

  Barbara Wood

  Forgiveness, Summer, Dog

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• I know I am deathless…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Leaves Of Grass, Exhausted

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• For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon. But the danger posed by war to all humanity-and to our planet-is at least matched by climate change.

  Ban Ki-moon

  War, Humanity, Age

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• Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spring, Men, Rights

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• With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.

  Donald Trump

  Snow, Records, Levels

  "Trump cool to global warning". pagesix.com. February 14, 2010.

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• Heating bills this winter are the highest they've been in five years, but President Bush has a plan to combat rising bills. It's called global warming.

  Jay Leno

  Years, President, Rising

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• I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible, we depend on society. It's one thing to overturn a government or block the streets. But it's a different matter altogether to create and build a better society, one that needs organization, discipline and long-term work. Let's not confuse the two of them. I want to make it clear: I feel sympathetic with that youthful energy, but I think it's not going anywhere if it doesn't become more mature.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Block, Spring

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• The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

  Walter Raleigh

  Spring, Flower, Fall

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.708

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• All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Struggle, Moving

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

  Agustin Gomez-Arcos

  Death, The End Of The Day, Dying

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• O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Learning, Blow

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.250, Hayes Barton Press

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• In the northern hemisphere, always dressing according to the season: bare arms in spring (however cold it is) and woolen jacket in winter (however hot it is).

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Spring, Hot

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• In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Snow, Southern

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• After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can't keep off the shivering.

  Jane Smiley

  Life, Summer, Night

  Jane Smiley (2011). “The Greenlanders”, p.218, Anchor

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