Quotes About Groundhog

Most European nations identify themselves with eagles or lions, with some predator or creature of the air, ascendant and belligerent. I would like to visit the country which adopts the groundhog as its mascot, somewhere peaceful, some place that curls against the secrets of the earth, a little Belgium of the imagination, tables piled high with cakes, the Sunday bells ringing (not too loudly), the light falling on rolling hillocks studded with salad greens.

The Republican Congress is like a groundhog afraid of its shadow when a government shutdown is talked about.

Groundhog?" Hale asked. "No time," Kat replied. "The tunneling alone would take days, and Taccone wouldn't leave these woods unpatrolled for that long.

Beautiful. Now I have to burrow like a groundhog into Mason's basement to the same room where he summoned those things to take me Downtown. Nothing can possibly go wrong with this plan.

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

Texans didn't have the vocabulary God gave a groundhog.

The catcher is a groundhog. He's a guy squatting down, digging for the ball in the dirt, and sweating under a pile of uncomfortable protective gear while his knees creak.

Groundhog found fog. New snows and blue toes. Fine and dandy for Valentine candy. Snow spittin'; if you're not mitten-smitten, you'll be frostbitten! By jing-y feels spring-y.

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

Horniness and hunger are the actual elements that determine a groundhog's behavior when it emerges in winter from months of hibernation.

Yesterday was "ground-hog's day" in many parts of the United States, and Candlemas day in many other parts of the world. From time immemorial, it has been a critical day in the affairs of the weather. The character of the second of February is really of much more importance than whether the first of March comes in like a lion or a lamb. The simplest form of the adage is:— If Candlemas day be bright and clear, There'll be two winters in that year.

Eternally Weeps the Groundhog.

When the groundhog casts his shadow And the small birds sing And the pussywillows happen And the sun shines warm And when the peepers peep Then it is Spring

The prognosticating groundhog is thought to derive from a German tradition that if the sun comes out on Candlemas Day and the hedgehog sees his shadow, six more weeks of winter will follow.