Quotes About Snow

The snow was the color and texture of a half-cooked egg white, making the world seem soft and lovely and - unexpectedly, to me - nourishing. That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.

País Tus ojos son de donde La nieve no ha manchado La luz y entre las palmas El aire Invisible es de claro.

El fresco verano llena Andaluzas soledades; no acercarán amistades la tierna imagen ajena. Visos y dejos de pena el agua me robaría; que la desdicha sonría hasta que el viento la lleve. Y en un molino de nieve levanto una nevería.

The snow on their faces is so white that how the white patches on their faces, which once looked so white against their black, are a shade of yellow.

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

Though the Russians technically won, the world watched as the Red Army suffered losses in the snowy woods at the hands of a few proud Finns on skis, their artillery pulled by reindeer.

We have grown dull toward this world in which we live; we have forgotten that it is not normal or scientific in any sense of the word. It is fantastic. It is fairy tale through and through. Really now. Elephants? Caterpillars? Snow? At what point did you lose your wonder at it all?

Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast.

it also meant mornings of glory such as this one, in which the snow, white almost to blueness, lay like a soft comforter over the hills, and birches and pines indestructibly held their ground, rigid lines against the snow and sky, very thin and very strong like Vermonters.

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

Virgil had read once that Grandma Moses was a primitive painter because she thought snow was white. The writer said if you really looked at it, snow was hardly ever white. It mostly was a gentler version of the color of the sky - blue, gray, orange in the evenings and mornings, often with purple shadows. When he looked, sure enough, the guy was right, and Grandma Moses had her head up her ass.

our revenue. Our delivery people— "Deliverators." I shifted in the beanbag. "What?" "Deliverators. That's what we're calling them now. Clever right? I thought up the term." "I thought Neal Stephenson did." "Who?" "He's a writer. He wrote Snow Crash." "And that's, what, a Frozen sequel?

When the crops were under cover on the Wayne farm near Pittsford in Vermont, when the winter wood was cut and the first light snow lay on the ground, Joseph Wayne went to the wing-back chair by the fireplace late one afternoon and stood before his father.

First snow: it came this year late in November.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, openly different kinds of good weather.

white bat of a snow spirit beating its wings?

The world was furred with late spring snow. It was the soft, thick stuff that excites you unless you are driving or half dead, packing snow already falling in caterpillars off the greening branches.

Reader, if you'd ever want infinity, stay with your eyes open in a fall of snow, of dandelion down, of dream, of sun – there are coming towards you its souls.

rien n'est plus triste qu'un retour de l'école à quatre heures de l'après-midi quand c'est déjà la nuit dans la ville et qu'on ne sait pas où l'on va dans la neige, mais on entend les gratte-neige tout près et on se dit qu'ils pourraient nous broyer tout rond

Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

You cant get too much winter in the winter.

The problem with winter sports is that, follow me closely here, they generally take place in winter.

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.