Winter Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Fall, Autumn

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Summer, Heart

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• At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river, life has its moments of drought and its moments of flood. Like the ever-changin cycle of the seasons, life has the soothing warmth of the summers and the piercing chill of its winters. But through it all, God walks with us. Never forget that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Summer, Religious, Dark

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• With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr. Putin's attacks and the violence they foster. The Olympic Committee must demand the retraction of these laws under threat of boycott.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Country, Gay, Russia

  "Russia’s Anti-Gay Crackdown". www.nytimes.com. July 21, 2013.

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• The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.

  Richard Sibbes

  Religious, Spring, Grace

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• After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Summer, Spiritual, Night

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• Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.

  Linda Grant

  Fashion, Baby, Shoes

  Linda Grant (2010). “The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.

  Bat Masterson

  Funny, Summer, Humorous

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• The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Nature, Cheer

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

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• Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes and devastating weather patterns that global warming is beginning to set off around the world.. the frequency and intensity of which are breaking records thousands of years old.

  Barack Obama

  Summer, Years, Weather

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance

  Phil Harding

  Summer, Nature, Spring

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• Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Cities, Revolution

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback.

  Mike Oldfield

  Summer, Rain, Sun

  Song: On Horseback

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• Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

  Charles Dickens

  Darkness, Scrooge

  Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.22

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• I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Believe, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.37, Penguin

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• Even in the winter, in the midst of the storm, the sun is still there. Somewhere above the clouds, it still shines and warms and pulls at the life buried deep inside the brown branches and frozen earth.

  Gloria Gaither

  Clouds, Shining, Storm

  Gloria Gaither (1980). “Because He Lives”

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• I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.

  Jack McBrayer

  Summer, Knowing, World

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• During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile.

  Nina Kuscsik

  Sports, Fitness, Running

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• Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.

  Robert Frost

  Pain, Rain, Giving

  Robert Frost (1928). “West-running Brook”, Henry Holt

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• It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Summer, Nature, Real

  Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.130, Oxford University Press

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• The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.

  Henry Clay

  Inspirational, Summer, Wrestling

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• I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I am bewitched, enchanted, and tomorrow I must start for the great temple to listen to the winter songs and sermons preached and sung only there.

  John Muir

  Song, Storm, Mountain

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.109, The Mountaineers Books

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• Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Dream, Flower, Laughing

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.371

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