Quotes About Winter

It was winter, winds were stirring. The Santa Anas which come from the desert beyond the city. . . . I understood exactly what God was saying. . . . Behold, you are insignificant and flawed.

The skin of frozen snow crunched satisfyingly beneath my boots as I smashed each step into the ground just as I planned to smash my foes.

The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.

I used to try to decide which was the worst month of the year. In the winter I would choose February. I had it figured out that the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.

When I returned, not to Berlin, but to Hamburg in the midst of the fog of the beginning of winter, to the road that runs right above it's river and docks, a castle which never existed and a fountain which is really a sewer, a gust of wind far sweeter and more fragrant than any red rose carried the smell of shit and floating soil like a tongue into my nostril.

WINTER FEAR Is it just winter or is this worse. Is this the year when outer damp obscures a deeper curse that spring can't fix, when gears that turn the earth won't shift the view, when clouds won't lift though all the skies go blue.

It reminded me of what Dad said after every snail's crawl home from Albany when snow hit."It's New York, people. It's winter. We get snow. If you aren't prepared to deal with it, move to Miami.

On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head back out on the road. Accidents everywhere. A pileup on each of two major roads. "Welcome to winter," one said. "When fifty percent of drivers should have their licenses temporarily suspended.

There are stories about winter ghosts found tangles like lice in their lovers' hair.

Villages in the English countryside were cut off by the snow

unas manchas de sangre tiñeron la nieve; de un rojo brillante a juego con la bandera que ondeaba encima.

Not that it was a hard country, but something you must go through a winter of to understand. But that's what you did not know. You knew the cursed look of wanderlust but you did not know the hell that lust was leading you into. You must go through a winter first. . . .

an old gray aunt who came to visit every winter and stayed till spring. You learn to live with her.

An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow.

But you'd best get moving lad. If we lie here too long our nuts will freeze to the ground." "Fine words for a pastor," Jake said. "No man that hath his stones broken shall come nigh to the offerings of the Lord," the pastor said with a straight face. "Now you're just making shit up," Jake replied.

Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,Frosty, but kindly.

For you there's rosemary and rue; these keepSeeming and savor all the winter long.

A sad tale's best for winter.I have one of sprites and goblins.

This will last out a night in Russia,When nights are longest there.

[W]ell-apparell'd April on the heel Of limping winter treads...

The air bites shrewdly.

Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York.

Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind, Thou art not so unkind, as Man's Ingratitude...

How like a winter hath my absence been.