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Quotes About Winter

I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.
~ James Schuyler
See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,Sullen and sad.
~ James Thomson
As we walked outside together, into the Christmas crowds, I felt unsteady and sorrowful; and the ribbon-wrapped buildings, the glitter of windows only deepened the oppressive sadness: dark winter skies, gray canyon of jewels and furs and all the power and melancholy of wealth
~ Donna Tartt
It was getting warmer. The dirty snow was pockmarked from the warm rain, and melting in patches to expose the slimy, yellowed grass beneath it; icicles cracked and plunged like daggers from the sharp peaks of the roofs.
~ Donna Tartt
winter grayness weighing like stone.
~ Donna Tartt
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fogs in the valleys; cellos, dark windowpanes, snow.
~ Donna Tartt
It was dark, even at noon, with the snow stretching white and stark to the violet slate of the sky. The frost, grown stronger and stronger, was an antagonist to be studied and countered, like a runagate thief with a knife.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
They flew, hissing, through the surgical cold of the air, the scythed snow spinning like glass from the runners.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
There is of course an extremely good reason for wearing shorts when you're young, even in the depths of an English winter (and they were colder then, weren't they?). According to Wired magazine, we can't expect to see self-repairing fabrics until about the year 2020, but ever since we emerged from whatever trees or swamps we lived in five million years ago, we have had self-repairing knees.
~ Douglas Adams
In the winter time the temperature falls well below the legal minimum.
~ Douglas Adams
Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
~ Douglas Coupland
the southern gothic trappings, the rumors and whispers, were too delicious to ruin with the winter wind of truth.
~ Douglas Preston
I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, doglike, I have kept, marking the conclave of all the night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.
~ Aeschylus
If you were foolish enough to sing all summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.
~ Aesop
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. Goes to sleep all winter and doesn't eat anything more than grass as far as I know, to live all the summer. Not an interesting life perhaps, but a very peaceful one.
~ Agatha Christie
It was five o'clock on a winter's morning in Syria.
~ Agatha Christie
VREMEA TREMURÄ' DE FRIG.
~ Aglaja Veteranyi
This is the fruit for a time of year when the sun and all its gallop don't merely feel as though they have nudged us from a static winter, but into a fully alive, roaring season—when everything you touch feels like it could give you a blister and a bit of wild burn.
~ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
There are not enough jam jars to can this summer sky at night. I want to spread those little meteors on a hunk of still-warm bread this winter. Any trace left on the knife will make a kitchen sink like that evening air the cool night before star showers: so sticky so warm so full of light
~ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
In the early dusk of winter, Mercier climbed into an Opel with German plates. The young driver called himself Stefan and said he was from an emigre family that had settled in Besancon. 'In thirty-three,' he added. 'The minute Hitler took power, my father got the suitcases down. He was a socialist politicians, and he knew what was coming. Then, after we settled in France, the people you work for showed up right away, they've kept me busy ever since.
~ Alan Furst
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.
~ Sam Abell
I remember the first roll of film I took. It was wintertime, and I wanted to shoot a roll of film to practice processing it, so I took an entire 36-exposure roll of my dog, Tippy.
~ Edward Burtynsky
Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.
~ Gary Paulsen
'Are you sure you're going to be warm enough?' is a question I get a lot.
~ Josh Gondelman