Winter Quotes - Page 37

• It's a great time to book vacation travel for the winter, .. After the first of the year, airplanes are empty, resorts are empty, and they are very excited to get early bookings.

  Terry Jones

  Book, Airplane, Vacation

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• Winter in #‎ Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.

  Tom Allen

  Maine, Activity

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• Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter.

  Abe Lemons

  Summer, Guy, Want

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• During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.

  John Dyer

  Weather, Drawing, Work Out

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• Whiles in the early Winter eve We pass amid the gathering night Some homestead that we had to leave Years past; and see its candles bright Shine in the room beside the door Where we were merry years agone But now must never enter more, As still the dark road drives us on. E'en so the world of men may turn At even of some hurried day And see the ancient glimmer burn Across the waste that hath no way; Then with that faint light in its eyes A while I bid it linger near And nurse in wavering memories The bitter-sweet of days that were.

  William Morris

  Sweet, Memories, Eye

  William Morris (2012). “The House of the Wolfings: A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddestand most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,--in winter expecting the sun of spring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Patience, Regret, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

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• Suttree surfaced from these fevered deeps to hear a maudlin voice chant latin by his bedside, what medieval ghost come to usurp his fallen corporeality. An oiled thumball redolent of lime and sage pondered his shuttered lids.Miserere mei, Deus ...His ears anointed, his lips ... omnis maligna discordia ... Bechrismed with scented oils he lay boneless in a cold euphoria. Japheth when you left your father's house the birds had flown. You were not prepared for such weathers. You'd spoke too lightly of the winter in your father's heart. We saw you in the streets. Sad.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Latin, Father, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.447, Pan Macmillan

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• As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.

  Markus Zusak

  Running, Morning, Sunshine

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• The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Morning, Cat, Voice

  1908 The Wind in the Willows, ch.8.

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• A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

  Victor Hugo

  Sunshine, Countenance, Humans

  Victor Hugo (2006). “Les Miserables Vol. II, Book 5–8”, p.335, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Butterfly, Woods

  Edith Wharton (2005). “Ethan Frome - Literary Touchstone”, p.85, Prestwick House Inc

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• Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spring, Sight, Sorrow

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Spring, Heart, Past

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.156, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: "That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fall, Thinking, Cycle Of Life

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• Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.

  A. A. Milne

  Ideas, Piglet, Rabbits

  A A Milne (1998). “Cn Pooh 12-Copy Slipcase #06: Ams - Kanga & Baby Roo Comes to the Forest”, Dutton Books

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• In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dream, Book, Curls

  Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you
  in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor
  to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its
  loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't
  catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?

  Judith Martin

  Summer, Cheer, Food

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• I who all the Winter through,
  Cherished other loves than you
  And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew;
  Now I know the false and true,
  For the earnest sun looks through,
  And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Hands, Bed

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3716, Delphi Classics

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• And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, Home, Patriotic

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

  Crowfoot

  Life, Change, Death

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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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• 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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• Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Autumn, Voice, Soul

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