Winter Quotes - Page 35

• An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Summer, Heart, Sunshine

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1889). “The Afternoon Landscape: Poems and Translations”

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• Peace to these little broken leaves, That strew our common ground; That chase their tails, like silly dogs, As they go round and round. For though in winter boughs are bare, Let us not once forget Their summer glory, when these leaves Caught the great Sun in their strong net; And made him, in the lower air, Tremble - no bigger than a star!

  W. H. Davies

  Summer, Dog, Strong

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• Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Angel, Night, Tree

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up and two down, with digital chimneys like pigs' tits on the rooftops sending up heat and smoke into the cold trough of a windy sky. Stars hid like snipers, taking aim now and again when clouds gave them a loophole. Winter was an easy time for him to hide his secrets, for each dark street patted his shoulder and became a friend, and the gaseous eye of each lamp glowed unwinking as he passed.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Stars, Eye, Passion

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• Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Friendship, Light, Quiet

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• I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

  David Hobson

  Garden, Order, Cleaning

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• There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food... A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles.

  Laurie Colwin

  Baseball, Funny Inspirational, Party

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• What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Summer, Running

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

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• What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Gratitude, Grateful

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• What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe.

  Andrew Roberts

  Europe, History, Partnership

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• Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Nature, Things In Life

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.125

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• Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks.

  Alex Pacheco

  Animal, Snow, Tough Times

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• The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Color, Soup, Sound

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• I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Dark, Owl, Gardening

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am.

  Terry Crews

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• Some of the events in the Olympics don't make sense to me. I don't understand the connection to any reality... Like in the Winter Olympics they have that biathlon that combines cross-country skiing with shooting a gun. How many alpine snipers are into this? Ski, shoot a gun... ski, bang, bang, bang... It's like combining swimming and strangling a guy. Why don't we have that? That makes absolutely as much sense to me. Just put people in the pool at the end of each lane for the swimmers.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Country, Swimming

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• The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Moving, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.152, Graphic Arts Books

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• A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.

  Dacia Maraini

  Depressing, Snow, Lacking

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an autobiography. I think of it as a literary composition - similar to music - composed of autobiographical fragments. I'm really not telling the story of my life in a coherent narrative form.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Stories, Narrative

  Time Out Interview, www.timeout.com.

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• Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, May, Peril

  'Doctor Thorne' (1858) ch. 47

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• Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

  Rene Char

  Heart, Bird, Battle

  René Char (2004). “This Smoke that Carried Us: Selected Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

  George Monbiot

  Christian, Atheism, Pagan

  "Why vegans were right all along" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2002.

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• There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

  William Browne

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.256

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• When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Humorous, Home

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• At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Glasses, Wind, Practice

  Eknath Easwaran (1993). “Your life is your message: finding harmony with yourself, others, & the earth”, Nilgiri Pr

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