Winter Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• Tis now the twenty-third of march,
  And this warm sun takes out the starch
  Of winter's pinafore -
  Methinks The Very pasture gladly drinks
  A health to spring, and while it sips
  It faintly smacks a myriad lips.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Twenties, Sun

  Elizabeth Hall Witherell, Henry David Thoreau (1979). “The Poetry of Henry David Thoreau: A Selected Critical Edition”

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• I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.

  Shaun White

  Summer, Trying, Gold

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• The winter passes and the warm winds of May made me long to wander again. The whistling of a locomotive on a still night had a lure, unexplainable, yet strong, like the light which leads a moth to destruction.

  Jim Tully

  Strong, Night, Light

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• Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Flower, Humility, Weather

  Samuel Rutherford (1885). “Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished”

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• My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead.

  Ina Garten

  Fall, Two, Lunch

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• I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Winters. He's influenced everyone who's ever done improvisational comedy. You look to Jonathan Winters for inspiration. He paved the way.

  Rob Reiner

  Inspiration, Fans, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• This would be nice when we baptize people in the winter.

  Phil Robertson

  Nice, People, Would Be

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• I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.

  Paul Auster

  Crazy, Book, Writing

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy, Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.

  Paul Auster

  Wanted, I Realized, Journal

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Book, School

  Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

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• As always, I wonder if I'll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that's because the system decided which author shall be commercially successful. As I said, the most vicious of them all is The New York Times, because it pretends to be literary and impartial, and it's really this opinionated, myopic, stupid giant of incompetence.

  James Purdy

  Summer, New York, Stupid

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Writing, Long, Choices

  "Ismail Kadare, The Art of Fiction No. 153". Interview with Shusha Guppy, www.theparisreview.org. 1998.

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• What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Adventure, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2919, Delphi Classics

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• There are four seasons in a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Colour!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Summer, Spring, Years

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• Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.

  Garrison Keillor

  Who We Are, Seasons

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• If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.

  Rob Reiner

  Inspiration, Laughing, Credit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is winter time! Feed the birds! Teach your children to feed the birds! Request your neighbour to feed the birds! Encourage your friends to feed the birds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Children, Bird, Teach

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• In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Dark, Moon

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.122, Counterpoint Press

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• One of the huge advantages of shooting in the winter is that locations that wouldn't have been available to us suddenly were, like Yorkville. ... It's just specific streets and specific angles. I think that's what's always kind of shocking about some cities: they are really about intersections.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Cities, Shooting

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