Winter Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time.

  Valentino Rossi

  Sports, Important, Tests

  Interview with Matt Salisbury, www.crash.net. January 23, 2005.

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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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• Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Passion, Journey, Expression

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

  John Woolman

  Time, Parent, Leisure

  John Woolman (1847). “A journal of the life, gospel labours, and Christian experiences of ... John Woolman ...: To which are added his last epistle, and other writings ...”, p.8

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• And finally Winter, with its bitin', and whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

  Roy Bean

  Wind, Land, Snow

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• Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedly long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

  Otis Williams

  Names, Long, Looks

  Otis Williams (2002). “Temptations”, p.49, Cooper Square Press

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• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  Calamity Jane

  Fall, Towns, Forts

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which will not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers: that is worth a good deal. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Journey, Years, Eggs

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• Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.

  Robert Frost

  Flower, Lists, Lovers

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.33, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Journey, Organization, Giving

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2009). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• Now the Earth's face is lathered white with shaving soap It's a long time till the razor once more makes its face smooth and fresh and green.

  Gunvor Hofmo

  White, Long, Shaving

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• Up and away for life! be fleet!-
  The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
  Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
  Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
  Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
  And hems in life with narrowing fence.
  Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-
  The punctual stars will vigil keep,-
  Embalmed by purifying cold;
  The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
  The snow is no ignoble shroud,
  The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Kings, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

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• Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

  John Burroughs

  Goodbye, Running, Sweet

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.91, Syracuse University Press

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• Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn’t miss for the world.

  Michael Crummey

  Hangover, Missing, Over You

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• Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Spring, Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I soared above the song birds
  And never heard them sing
  I lived my life in winter
  And then you brought the spring

  Randall Wallace

  Song, Spring, Bird

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• Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves,
  O flakes of snow,
  For which, through naked trees, the winds
  A-mourning go?

  John B. Tabb

  Wind, Snow, Mourning

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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• Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

  Dave Matthews

  Dark, Clouds, May

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