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Quotes About Cold

The crow iz a tuff bird, and kan stand the heat like a blacksmith, and the cold like a stun wall. They bild their nest among a tree, and lay twice, and both eggs will hatch out if they was laid in a snow bank, — thare aint no such thing as stopping a young crow.
~ Josh Billings
Colder than lunar rainbows, changefuller Than sleeked purples on a pigeon's neck.
~ Alexander Smith
The captain had been telling how, in one of his Arctic voyages, it was so cold that the mate's shadow froze fast to the deck and had to be ripped loose by main strength. And even then he got only about two-thirds of it back.
~ Mark Twain
Cold winter weather is snow laughing matter.
~ Internet meme
Full many a man, both young and old, Is brought to his sarcophagus, By pouring water, icy cold, Adown his warm æsophagus.
~ Foote's Monthly, 1890
...in a voice that cut like the hiss of a snake he spoke slowly and deliberately. He was all sober now; the drunkenness of brain and blood was lost, for the time, in the strength of his cold passion.
~ Bram Stoker, The Man, 1905
It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins.
~ Samuel Pepys, diary, 1664
Why does cold weather refresh old griefs? More quiet for reflection? Longer nights to lay awake? Like citrus, grief is a winter fruit.
~ Terri Guillemets
And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, their cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of stillness, and the cold, and dark.
~ Jack London
That man from Sulphur Creek had spoken the truth when telling how cold it sometimes got in the country. And he had laughed at him at the time! That showed one must not be too sure of things.
~ Jack London
It certainly was cold, was his thought. That man from Sulphur Creek had spoken the truth when telling how cold it sometimes got in the country. And he had laughed at him at the time! That showed one must not be too sure of things. There was no mistake about it, it was cold.
~ Jack London
But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge. And it knew that it was not good to walk abroad in such fearful cold.
~ Jack London
And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.
~ Jack London
It's colder than the hinges of hell a thousand years before the first fire was lighted.
~ Jack London
New York you forgot how cold and bleak winter could be. The neon lights, the moving crowds, the taxi-filled streets stampeded the snow into slush and the slush into gray water that quickly disappeared and you forgot about the bare, desolate ground of the outside world. The loneliness of winter. The
~ Jacqueline Susann
Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing cold with the death of love. It is a remarkable process. It is far more terrible than anything I have ever read about it, more terrible than anything I will ever be able to say.
~ James Baldwin
But I felt that it was my heart which was broken. Something had broken in me to make me so cold and so perfectly still and far away.
~ James Baldwin
Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing cold with the death of love. It is a remarkable process. It is far more terrible than anything I have ever read about it, more terrible than anything I will ever be able to say. I
~ James Baldwin
Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing cold with the death of love. It is far more terrible than anything I have ever read about, more terrible than anything I will ever be able to say.
~ James Baldwin
she looked again cold, brilliant, and bitterly helpless, a terrifying woman.
~ James Baldwin
I remember the winter sun was shining and I felt cold and distant as the sun.
~ James Baldwin
It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep
~ James Frey
When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate the cold. It can be just debilitating, and things can happen so quickly.
~ Jon Krakauer
When you're working on a lake and it's dark and cold out and you can't see what's underwater, it is freaking scary!
~ Jessica Szohr