Winter Quotes - Page 33

• Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up safely my roses and lillies and the rest for their winter sleep beneath the snow, where I never forget them, but ever dream of their wakening in happy summers yet to be.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Dream, Sleep

  Celia Thaxter (1894). “An Island Garden”

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• Moonless winter night-
  a billow of rising fog
  hides the distant pines

  Lenard Moore

  Night, Fog, Rising

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• I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

  Debi Thomas

  Motivational, Athlete, Bronze Medal

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• Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.

  James Taylor

  Friendship, Summer, Spring

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• While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm earlier reconnaissance: Vancouver is among the best eating towns in the history of the Winter Games.

  Sam Sifton

  Sports, Games, Cities

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• February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dirty, Two, Long

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• Surely as cometh the Winter, I know
  There are Spring violets under the snow.

  Robert Henry Newell

  Spring, Snow, Violet

  Robert Henry Newell (1871). “Versatilities”, p.16

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• Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white;
  And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still;
  No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill,
  And willow stems grow daily red and bright.
  These are days when ancients held a rite
  Of expiation for the old year's ill,
  And prayer to purify the new year's will.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  New Year, Prayer, Lying

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1891). “A Calendar of Sonnets”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a garden doesn't like to be ignored like this. It doesn't like to be covered in dust sheets, as though it were an old room which you had shut up during the winter. Especially since a garden knows how gay and delightful it can be, even in the very frozen heart of the winter, if you only give it a chance.

  Beverley Nichols

  Spring, Heart, Gay

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• Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.

  William Sharp

  Giving, Secret, Forests

  William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1910). “The silence of amor. Where the forest murmurs”

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• I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.

  Maya Angelou

  Summer, Spring, Funeral

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• No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.331, New World Library

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• In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a small garden of plants that stay green all year. The winter is bleak. This place is primarily for the installation of art, necessarily for whatever architecture of my own that can be included in an existing situation, for work, and altogether for my idea of living.

  Donald Judd

  Summer, Art, Garden

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

  Louise Penny

  Elderly, Earth, Hungry

  Louise Penny (2011). “Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.141, Macmillan

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• The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Spiritual, Library, Certain

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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• By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

  Carroll Quigley

  West, Danger

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• Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. What could be more thrilling and worthy of celebration than that? It is a time to celebrate sweet bounty, as the harvest is brought in. It is a time of excitement and pleasure for children before the dark sets in. We should all celebrate that.

  Jenny Colgan

  Summer, Sweet, Children

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• One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.

  A. S. J. Tessimond

  Rain, Simple, Breathing

  A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber

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• Due to global warming, the coming winters in the local regions will become milder.

  Stefan Rahmstorf

  Global Warming, Regions, Locals

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• Winters with strong frost and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will cease to exist at our latitudes.

  Mojib Latif

  Strong, Years, Snow

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• Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do.  Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Littles, Seasons, Asks

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• Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

  Bette Midler

  Spring, Snow, Rose

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• It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

  John Milton

  Children, Lying, Rude

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 1

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• Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Summer, Creativity, Agony

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• Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter.

  Laozi

  Rivers, Taoism, Cautious

  Laozi (2007). “Daodejing: The New, Highly Readable Translation of the Life-Changing Ancient Scripture Formerly Known as the Tao Te Ching”, p.55, Open Court

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