Winter Quotes - Page 30

• Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Football, Spring

  Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books

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• And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

  Rumi

  Garden, Thinking, Roots

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• At first, I didn't really care if global warming existed. But then I realized it means that less bums would freeze to death in the winter

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Care, Firsts

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• When I think about the holidays, I think about the Salvation Army guys ringing bells in front of stores. They're always so nice to you and they're always willing to give a heart to heart conversation. They actually bear the winter cold to ask for your petty cash with a smile on their face. Fudge those guys.

  Zach Braff

  Nice, Heart, Holiday

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• Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad - old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings - every bit of it.

  Bill Bryson

  Summer, Country, Sorry

  "Notes from a Small Island". Book by Bill Bryson, 1995.

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• For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Years, Electric Power, Achievement

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• I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.

  Julia Gardiner Tyler

  Presidential, Reign, Way

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• All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.

  William Stafford

  Summer, Wind, Bye

  William Stafford (1977). “Stories that could be true: new and collected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns.

  Hideo Kojima

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

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• Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
  But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long:
  Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner.
  Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years;
  Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more;
  Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
  The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

  John Dryden

  Life, Fate, Autumn

  "Oedipus: A Tragedy".

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• Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot.

  Celia Thaxter

  Life, Autumn, Animal

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.56, Applewood Books

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• It was one of those winter days that suddenly dream of spring, when the sky is blue and soft and clear, and the wind has dropped its voice and whispers instead of screaming, and the sun is out and the trees look surprised, and over everything there is the faintest, palest tint of green.

  Shirley Jackson

  Dream, Spring, Blue

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel”, p.6, Penguin

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• Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Sound, Winter Love

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.183

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• Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and set of sun till Christmastide, And when the land lay pale for them, pale-snowed, Fell back, and down the snow-drifts flamed and flowed. From off your face, into the winds of winter, The sun-brown and the summer-gold are blowing; But they shall gleam with spiritual glinter, When paler beauty on your brows falls snowing, And through those snows my looks shall be soft-going.

  Wilfred Owen

  Beauty, Summer, Spiritual

  Wilfred Owen, Jon Stallworthy (1983). “Wilfred Owen: The Complete Poems and Fragments”, Chatto & Windus

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• The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Nature, Cheer

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts in the fall and scold all year long; bobcats track the snowy lake in winter; deer browse the willow shoots in spring. Humans are but intruders who have presumed the right to be observers, and who, out of observation, find understanding.

  Ann Zwinger

  Nature, Spring, Flower

  Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.9, Big Earth Publishing

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• You stupefied me. We waxed,
  Carnivores, late and alight
  In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Carnivores, Late

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold a long time, to behold the junipers, shagged with ice, the spruces, rough in the distant glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land, full of the same wind, blowing in the same bare place for the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing herself, beholds nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.

  Wallace Stevens

  Time, Thinking, Wind Blowing

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.89, Vintage

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• A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Journey, Years

  "Journey of the Magi" l. 1 (1927)

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• My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.

  John Phillips

  Time, Long, Frost

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• I declare the 22nd Olympic Winter Games open.

  Shani Davis

  Games

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• But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference.

  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Beautiful, Summer, Love Is

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• However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Flower, Snow

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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 pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

  Aeschylus

  Summer, Dog, Stars

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