Quotes About Winter

Parliament is prorogued, but London lawyers, flapping their black gowns like crows, settle to their winter term.

But when the sun drops closer to the earth, the cold of the earth runs to it from the water and causes all green things to dry up. And because the sun has dropped closer to the earth, the days are short, and it is winter.

Och snön, den föll och föll.

You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park south?That little lake?By any chance you happen to know where they go?The ducks,When it gets all frozen over?

Rays of sunlight strike the snow, melting an ice layer that freezes and re-forms every day. As I take a step, I feel the sheet break, a craquelure spreading from my feet.

Winter made sure he got in before his sister, positioning himself in the middle like some kind of chaperone—as if, when the infection kicked back into high gear, Aidan was going to care whom he attacked. Not to mention that Aidan liked boys just fine anyway.

Trees of ice grow blue fruits the size of peaches, encased in a frozen crust. Some have fallen and split open like candy apples. The scent is that of honey and spice and sap. The leaves of the trees give off a haunting sound not unlike wind chimes when the air blows through the branches.

Behind him comes an ice coach pulled by faerie horses as crystalline as if they were conjured by frozen waves.

There was a sort of joke about the four seasons in Maine. They were: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.

The immortals will send you to the Elysian plain at the ends of the earth, where fair-haired Rhadamanthys is. There life is supremely easy for men. No snow is there, nor ever heavy winter storm, nor rain, and Ocean is ever sending gusts of the clear-blowing west wind to bring coolness to men.

My thoughts of longing are like the smoke grass, That grows always in profusion, winter or spring!

His skin during the winter was the color of a weak latte. During the summer it was the color of hot chocolate.

People have asked me about the loneliness out on the race. But the race is when you finally have some social contact after a long winter of training alone on mostly empty trails. On the race you meet people at checkpoints, and you mix it up with other drivers, people from all walks of life who are bound together once a year by their miseries on the Iditarod Trail.

fares for the ship?' 'I'll see to it,' Joe reassured her. 'And look, if you want Dottie and me to come with you, I'm sure she wouldn't mind. We meant to stay here for the winter but we could easily change our plans. I reckon she'd be all right on the journey now, especially if you were there too.' He

Yaga de Winter was her own private joke; the old country loved literature a little too well.

But others, the book said, will stay where they are for the winter. Those geese are already home.

The attic of your beautiful throat is laced with owl and cobweb. Night sings north, the need of winter. Look up and know what will become of us is stars.

There are stories about winter ghosts found tangled like lice in their lovers' hair. Dead people have no hair themselves, which is how they can be recognized in winter. But in summer, the living and dead may pass each other on the street, and no one knows the difference.

I've been a skier since I was 2 or 3, skiing with my dad in northern New York and Vermont.

In December, 1861, arms purchased abroad began to come in, and a good many Enfield rifles were in the hands of the troops at the battle of Shiloh. The winter of 1862 was the period when our ordnance deficiencies were most keenly felt. Powder was called for on every hand; and the equipments most needed were those we were least able to supply.

During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.

Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

He left in a state of distraction and a winter coat.

within the frosted bushes. It was only in