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Quotes About Snow

Las negras lápidas surgían de la nieve como las uñas destrozadas de un cadáver gigantesco.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Beside the road at its crest a still higher summit rose, bleak and windswept, and I saw that it was a burying-ground where black gravestones stuck ghoulishly through the snow like the decayed fingernails of a gigantic corpse
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Nahum himself gave the most definite statement of anyone when he said he was disturbed about certain footprints in the snow. They were the usual winter prints of red squirrels, white rabbits, and foxes, but the brooding farmer professed to see something not quite right about their nature and arrangement.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Lesser peaks they once inhabited; but ever the men from the plains would scale the slopes of rock and snow, driving the gods to higher and higher mountains till now only the last remains.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Mrs. Friedman lived in a happy snow globe of AP History.
~ Harlan Coben
Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
~ Lalla Ward
Tracked a raccoon one time in the snow. I was in the neighborhood and I was just curious where this raccoon lived. There's some fresh raccoon tracks. He'd been digging at somebody's garbage.
~ Mike Leach
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
~ Christina Rossetti
Normally you have news, weather and travel.....but not on snow day, on snow day news is weather is travel.
~ Michael McIntyre
We just lay on our bellies in the snow, gasping and immobile.
~ Peter Habeler
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.
~ Irving Berlin
Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.
~ Paulo Coelho
...freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Right here you made an angel of yourself, free-falling backwards into last night's snow, indenting a straight, neat, crucified shape, then flapping your arms, one stroke, a great bird, to leave the impression of wings. It worked.
~ Simon Armitage
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
~ Sinclair Lewis
I told myself to remember the snow and to remember my pure, strong happiness at simply being alive to see it. That thought has never left me.
~ Siri Hustvedt
The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.
~ Murasaki Shikibu
As chaste as unsunned snow.
~ William Shakespeare
Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.
~ William Henry Ashley
Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.
~ James Schuyler
And the night smells like snow. Walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It's unendurable, unendurable.
~ Franz Wright