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Quotes About Winter

The blossoms fall just once each winter, yet in our memories, they fall every day.
~ David Kudler
How like a winter has been my hard spring away from you, my harp. --Psalm
~ David Lehman
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
~ Jack Kerouac
In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
~ Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes
The dude in red's back at the pole, Up North where everything is cold. But if he were right here tonight, He'd say 'Merry Christmas! And to all, a good night!'
~ Kurtis Blow
The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.
~ Tobias Smollett
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
~ Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.
~ Peter Agre
A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I've been half-frozen for so long, it is as though the winter has set up home in my marrow.
~ Hannah Kent
When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.
~ Dave Barry
Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.
~ Russ Carnahan
But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.
~ Mary Balogh, A Matter of Class
I'm going to make it a law that the correct way to address your sovereign is my giving a high five.' Kai's smiled brightened. 'That's genius. Me too.
~ Marissa Meyer, Winter
I love winter. The bugs are dead, and the people are indoors.
~ Dennis Ruane
At my place I can really tell when winter has come.. It's when sunlight is pathetically crawling in my courtyard, incapable of reaching my window anymore.
~ Boulet
Winter reaches its peaknot when a great wind screamsfrom the top of its lungs, but when a lazy breeze whispers from the bottom of its heart
~ shivaraj konanavar
O the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below; Over the house-tops, over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet, Dancing, flirting, skimming along.
~ James W. Watson
When his flock thronged into the midnight service, there was wonder on every face at the newly hung greens and the softly flickering candles on each windowsill. To the simple beauty of the historic church was added fresh, green hope, the lush scent of flowers in winter, and candle flame that cast its flickering shadows over the congregation like a shawl.
~ Jan Karon
It makes everything innocent again," she said. "A winter Eden.
~ Jan Karon
Terwijl jij daar geveld ligt door Coatlicue, krimpt onze welvaartsstaat weer samen, zoals ieder jaar als de donkere dagen rond kerstfeest naderen, tot de knusse wereld van Anton Pieck. Het krijsen van de goden wordt hier gedempt door de bellekens van de arreslede. Mijn god, kunnen wij hier ook niet bar en bitter met een koolraap aan het spit de bijtende koude door een slonzige pels heen tot de huid laten doordringen.
~ Jan Wolkers
It is winter now, and the roses are blooming again, their petals bright against the snow. My father died last April; my sisters no longer write, except at the turning of the year, content with their fine houses and their grandchildren. Beast and I putter in the gardens and walk slowly on the forest paths. [from the poem, Beauty and the Beast: An Anniversary ]
~ Jane Yolen
Unknown to them, spring fever was in fact a vitamin deficiency, mostly likely scurvy, brought on by the winter diet. IN
~ Jane Ziegelman