100+ Winter Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Alexander Agassiz (1888). “A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880”

topic: Ocean, Taken, Winter, Ocean Exploration, Albatross

On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the day of migrating, bho baile gu beinn (from townland to moorland), from the winter homestead to the summer sheiling. The summer of their joy is come, the summer of the sheiling, the song, the pipe and the dance, when the people ascend the hill to the clustered bothies, overlooking the distant sea from among the fronded ferns and fragrant heather, where neighbour meets neighbour, and lover meets lover.

- Alexander Carmichael

topic: Summer, Song, Winter, Ferns

But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Winter, Blow, Dew, Orion, Winter Time

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

- Alexander Pope

topic: Winter, Shining, Frost, Grove

In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Rain, Winter, Wind, Harper, Winter Rain

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Winter, Doe, Scales

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

topic: Winter, Potatoes, Chickens, Winter Time, Funny Winter

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

- Alexei Sayle

topic: Summer, Nice, Winter, Lebanese

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

- Alexis Korner

topic: Winter, Movement, Development

Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?

- Alfred Austin

source: Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

topic: Flower, Winter, Dumb, Winter Days

So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.

- Alfred Austin

source: Alfred Austin, “My Winter Rose”

topic: Winter, Snow, Rose

My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.

- Alfred Stieglitz

source: Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

topic: Winter, Snow, Storm, Fifth Avenue, Snow Storms

For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

source: Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

topic: Spring, Rain, Winter, May Flowers, Spring Day

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.

- Alice Cary

source: Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1850). “Poems of Alice and Phoebe Carey ...”, p.69

topic: Fall, Winter, Sunbeams

Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.

- Alison Jolly

topic: Winter, Science, Sun, Stonehenge

Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No return; no turning back. The past is gone, the future, black. Serpents gather in their nest, And she stands above the rest. Shadows hunt; she hunts the shadow. The moon is risen; she stands below. She views her world through the eyes of others. Black and white; there are no colors, As she looks down upon a shattered youth. A shattered mirror shows a shattered truth.

- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

topic: Strong, Eye, Winter, Serpent, No Turning Back

People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.

- Amy Gerstler

source: Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.75, Penguin

topic: Laughter, Dark, Winter, Frigid, Dark Comedy

She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.

- Anais Nin

topic: Fall, Winter, June, Unmade Beds, Little Money

Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.

- Anamika Mishra

source: Twitter post from Dec 2, 2015

topic: Winter, Celebration

We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of summer, and then gold covered the fields and forests, and then the whiteness again.

- Anatoly Berezovoy

topic: Summer, Fall, Winter

And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.

- Andrew McMahon

topic: Spring, Winter, Confusion

What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe.

- Andrew Roberts

topic: Winter, Europe, History

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

- Andrew Wyeth

source: Andrew Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art (1979). “Works”

topic: Fall, Winter, Waiting, Winter Days, Winter Months

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

- Andy Goldsworthy

source: Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

topic: Winter, Snow, Childhood, Snow Falling, Winter Snow

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

- Andy Goldsworthy

topic: Winter, Snow, Special

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

- Andy Goldsworthy

topic: Winter, Artist, Years

I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

- Ann Romney

source: Ann Romney (2015). “In This Together: My Story”, p.161, Macmillan

topic: Cancer, Winter, Boys

Some sins have no season. We are as likely to be angry in November as to lose our rag in March ... There is, though, something autumnal about greed, apple-cheeked and wheat-crowned, purpled knee-high in grapes; something summery in sloth, as the hammock creaks in the fly-drowsy heat; and more than a tickle of spring in lust, as birds pair and the sap rises. Among these, ingratitude is winter, the worst of seasons.

- Ann Wroe

topic: Gratitude, Spring, Winter, Hammocks, Drowsy

Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain in mid-flow and numbs the hand, even in the very act of giving. It is a sin of silence, absence and omission, as winter's sin is a lack of light; a sin against charity, which otherwise warms the heart and, in the truest sense, makes the world turn.

- Ann Wroe

source: "Why the ‘My Job Is Harder’ Fight Isn’t a Battle You Want to Win" by Lisa Earle McLeod, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2014.

topic: Flower, Heart, Winter, Ingratitude

And it seemed to me that there were fires Flying till dawn without number And I never found out things-those Strange eyes of his-what colour? Everything trembling and singing and Were you my enemy or my friend, Winter was it or summer?

- Anna Akhmatova

topic: Summer, Eye, Winter

Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention.

- Anna Akhmatova

topic: Song, Fall, Winter

But I shall like my battle. This sort of day puts one in mood for it. Plenty of wood in the shed, jam and potatoes and apples in the cellar, hay and oats and Cressy in the barn. Pooh - what is winter?

- Anne Bosworth Greene

topic: Winter, Oats, Apples

The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal.

- Anne Bosworth Greene

topic: Winter, Ice, Snow

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

topic: Spring, Winter, Pleasant, March Poems, Spring Awakening

Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.

- Anne Carson

topic: Winter, Eyelashes, Hands, First Snow

Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Spring, Winter, Long

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Strong, Holiday, Winter, Winter Holiday, Winter Season

Write about winter in the summer.

- Annie Dillard

source: Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

topic: Summer, Writing, Winter, Walt, Huckleberry

Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them.

- Anthea Turner

topic: Summer, Winter, Thinking

And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Brother, Real, Winter, Waltz, Cheeky

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.

- Anthony Trollope

topic: Winter, Men, May

Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?

- Apolo Ohno

topic: Dream, Winter, Helping Others, Olympian, Pay It Forward

I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.

- Apolo Ohno

topic: Winter, Ice, Two, Median, Toyota

If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

source: Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Winter, Journey, Eggs, Shopkeepers

Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which will not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers: that is worth a good deal. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

topic: Winter, Journey, Years, Shopkeepers

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

source: Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Passion, Winter, Journey, Desire For Knowledge

For a joint scientificÂ and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give meÂ Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of aÂ hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.

- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

topic: Winter, Journey, Organization

it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.

- Ardyth Kennelly

source: Ardyth Kennelly (1949). “The Peaceable Kingdom”

topic: Winter, Iron, Armor

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

- Aristotle

topic: Summer, Winter, Quality, Airy

When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will be parked and the name of the county sheriff to contact in case I don't get home.

- Aron Ralston

topic: Home, Winter, Names, Sheriffs

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

- Arsene Houssaye

topic: Spring, Heart, Winter

We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.

- Arthur Golden

topic: Spring, Winter, Self

Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

- Arthur Ransome

source: Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

topic: Summer, Book, Winter, Summer And Winter, Riverside

I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?

- Audrey Niffenegger

source: Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

topic: Tired, Sleep, Winter

Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

- Bai Juyi

source: Bai Juyi, “On The Lake (1)”

topic: Autumn, Dark, Winter, Bamboo

For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon. But the danger posed by war to all humanity-and to our planet-is at least matched by climate change.

- Ban Ki-moon

topic: War, Winter, Humanity, Nuclear Winter

Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes and devastating weather patterns that global warming is beginning to set off around the world.. the frequency and intensity of which are breaking records thousands of years old.

- Barack Obama

topic: Summer, Winter, Years, Hot Summer

Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons.

- Barbara Holland

topic: Spring, Real, Winter, Dryers

There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.

- Bat Masterson

topic: Summer, Winter, July, Old World

There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.

- Bat Masterson

topic: Summer, Winter, Men, Break Even

We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.

- Bat Masterson

topic: Inspirational, Summer, Winter

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

- Ben Aaronovitch

source: Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.151, Hachette UK

topic: Dream, Book, Winter, Winter Cold

The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.

- Benjamin Alire Saenz

topic: Heart, Winter, Cold, Winter Cold, Cute Winter

Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."

- Bernard Williams

topic: Spring, Winter, Fever, Doldrums

Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Morning, Winter, World, Sparkling, Winter Morning

It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.

- Beth Henley

source: "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

topic: Sister, Winter, Years

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

- Bette Midler

topic: Spring, Winter, Snow, White Rose, Roses And Love

It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.

- Betty Smith

topic: Children, Grief, Winter

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

- Bill Nye

topic: Spring, Winter, Long

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Winter, Two, Winter Season, Mlb

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

- Billy Connolly

topic: Travel, Winter, June, Scots, Winter Season

Boston has two seasons: August and winter.

- Billy Herman

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Winter, August, Boston

Don't you like when the winter's gone, And all of a sudden it starts gettin' warm? The trees and the grass start lookin' fresh, And the sun and sky be lookin' their best...

- Biz Markie

source: Song: Spring Again, Album: The Biz Never Sleeps, 1989

topic: Rap, Winter, Sky

Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths...by 2050...Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.

- Bjorn Lomborg

topic: Winter, Years, Europe, Heat Wave

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

- Black Elk

topic: Winter, Men, Thinking, Story Of My Life

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

- Bob Seger

topic: Writing, Winter, Stuff

I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.

- Bob Seger

topic: Summer, Winter, Play

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

- Bob Uecker

source: Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

topic: Sports, Winter, Years

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

- Bob Uecker

topic: Sports, Winter, Slumps

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

- Brandon Jay McLaren

topic: Winter, Weather, Vancouver, Unforgiving

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

- Brendan Behan

source: "Brendan Behan Dies in Dublin", www.nytimes.com. March 21, 1964.

topic: Summer, Winter, Beer, Irish Beer, Irish Drinking

That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after that the flowers and fruit appear, he received a high view of the Providence and Power of GOD, which has never since been effaced from his soul. That this view had perfectly set him loose from the world, and kindled in him such a love for GOD, that he could not tell whether it had increased in above forty years that he had lived since.

- Brother Lawrence

topic: Flower, Winter, Views, Little Time

This is what we see when we look up at Rainier, the beauty, the horror, the awe the unbelievability of size that confirms our own consequence on this earth. We look at the mountain, like god and can imagine nothing larger. Its incompressible life-span reminds us of the fleeting mortality of our own bones. It looms over our lives on clear days and and stay present but hidden through the clouds of winter. Like god it remains everywhere forever.

- Bruce Barcott

topic: Winter, Clouds, Forever, Clear Day

There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surface of water as it ripples in the breeze.... Even a wild dog's matted fur shows a lacy pattern if you look at it closely enough.

- Brunonia Barry

topic: Dog, Nature, Winter, Wild Dogs, Bare Branches

I'm telling you, until I shaved my head, I never realized how much heat is lost through the top of the head. I walk out in winter and it feels like I have an ice pack on my head. Unbelievable.

- Bryan Cranston

topic: Winter, Ice, Heat

When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics.

- Bryn Terfel

topic: Summer, Winter, Emotional, Winter Olympics, Emotional Wreck

Displease the Winter King and we'll none of us see another spring.

- C. L. Wilson

source: C. L. Wilson (2014). “The Winter King”, p.18, Harper Collins

topic: Kings, Spring, Winter

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Spring, Winter, Sight, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, Lion Witch Wardrobe

Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Jobs, Winter, Journey, Puddleglum, Ells

money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.

- Caitlin Thomas

topic: Block, Winter, Long

During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

- Calamity Jane

source: Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

topic: Fall, Winter, Towns, Fall And Winter, Forts

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

- Candace Bushnell

topic: Believe, Winter, Snow, Winter Cold, Winter Days

I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

- Candace Bushnell

topic: Summer, Winter, House

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves will not buy grain before two o'clock. This will enable the people of the town to obtain their supply first. Bakers shall put a distinctive trademark on their loaves, and keep weights and scales in their shops, under penalty of having their licenses removed.

- Cardinal Richelieu

topic: Summer, Winter, Two, Pastries

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.

- Cardinal Richelieu

topic: Summer, Winter, Bakers

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

topic: Education, Couple, Winter, Expenditures

I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

topic: Education, Winter, Science

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

- Carl Reiner

topic: Nature, Winter, People, Winter Love, Winter Rain

With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

topic: Sweet, Winter, Night, Sweet Potatoes

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

- Carrie Ann Inaba

topic: Winter, Animal, Giving, Winter Months, Animal Shelter

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

- Carroll Quigley

topic: Winter, West, Danger

There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's the changeling road, and there's the Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through a gap in the hedgerows or a mushroom ring or a tornado or a wardrobe full of winter coats.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Winter, Mushrooms, World, Changelings, Hedgerows

You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Sleep, Winter, Night, Winter Night

The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

- Cecilia Bartoli

topic: Winter, Nightlife, Restaurants, Winter Time, Salzburg

Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot.

- Celia Thaxter

source: Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.56, Applewood Books

topic: Life, Winter, Autumn

O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter's sorrow Already we can hear. And we know that the frosts will find us, And the smiling skies grow rude, While we look in the face of Beauty, And worship her every mood.

- Celia Thaxter

topic: Summer, Winter, Sky, Bright Smiles

As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Morning, Fall, Winter, Dreamy, Demented

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Summer, Spring, Winter

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

- Charles Dickens

source: A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

topic: Spring, Winter, Light, Incredulity, Great Literature

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Winter, Darkness, Scrooge

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Nature, Dark, Winter, Marshes, Masts

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Nature, Winter, Moon

Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy rocks, Northward o'er the sea, My daughter comes with sunny locks: This land's too warm for me!

- Charles Godfrey Leland

topic: Daughter, Kings, Winter

The perfect winter's night for me would be with all the family together. As you get a little older and everybody has their jobs and then families and kids, it definitely becomes harder to get everybody together at once.

- Charles Kelley

topic: Jobs, Kids, Winter, Family Together

The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

- Charles Kuralt

topic: Song, Winter, Singing

The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.

- Charles Nodier

topic: Winter, Long, Aspect

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.

- Chief Joseph

topic: Country, Winter, Men

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

- Chris Frantz

source: "Rockers Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth Talk Marriage". Interview with John Clarke, www.rollingstone.com. July 4, 2013.

topic: Winter, Germany, Want, Alps

Could've come like a mighty storm. With all the strength of a hurricane. You could've come like a forest fire with the power of Heaven in Your flame. But You came like a winter snow, quiet and soft and slow. Falling from the sky in the night to the earth below.

- Chris Tomlin

source: Song: Winter Snow, Album: Glory In The Highest: Christmas Songs Of Worship, 2009

topic: Fall, Winter, Night, Forest Fires, Winter Snow

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Winter, Men, Vanity, Concealment

Gone were but the Winter, Come were but the Spring, I would go to a covert Where the birds sing; Where in the whitethorn Singeth a thrush, And a robin sings In the holly-bush. Full of fresh scents Are the budding boughs Arching high over A cool green house: Full of sweet scents, And whispering air Which sayeth softly: We spread no snare; Here dwell in safety, Here dwell alone, With a clear stream And a mossy stone. Here the sun shineth Most shadily; Here is heard an echo Of the far sea, Though far off it be.

- Christina Rossetti

topic: Sweet, Spring, Winter, Thrush

I wish I could remember the first day, First hour, first moment of your meeting me; If bright or dim the season it might be; Summer or winter for aught I can say. So, unrecorded did it slip away, So blind was i to see and to forsee, So dull to mark the budding of my tree That would not blossom, yet, for many a May.

- Christina Rossetti

topic: Summer, Famous Love, Winter

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

source: 'Mid-Winter'

topic: Travel, Nature, Winter, Bleak, Snow Falling

Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.

- Christina Stead

topic: Art, Pain, Winter, Aches And Pains

But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament.

- Christopher Pearse Cranch

topic: Beautiful, Summer, Winter

I wonder now if you ever remember... Whether your June is all turned to December... Gone are those winters of chats and of dances... Gone the aroma of life's young romances... Ah! well enough, as you dance on in joyance... Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance...

- Christopher Pearse Cranch

topic: Fashion, Money, Winter

December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared.

- Christopher Pearse Cranch

source: Christopher Pearse Cranch (1875). “The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems”, p.191

topic: Summer, Winter, Years

In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.

- Cormac McCarthy

topic: Spring, Struggle, Winter, Palimpsest

Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions. In this sense, I certainly am a revolutionary.

- Cornelius Castoriadis

source: Sulak Sivaraksa (1999). “Global Healing: Essays and Interviews on Structural Violence, Social Development and Spiritual Transformation”, Thai Inter-Religious Commission for Development

topic: Mean, Winter, Blood

Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we once wore to survive the winters. It is an old custom, the handing down of things. A good knife, a well-made pipe, a heavy robe. Tradition falls prey to constant change, and creativity becomes so revered that the past is a relic, only to be admired. But in this coat, I was held to the earth, pulled to the past by its weight.

- Craig Childs

topic: Fall, Creativity, Winter

Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They face cold winters, hunger, homelessness, and unsympathetic police. But under each hardened shell there is still a child.

- Craig Kielburger

topic: Children, Kids, Winter, Gang Members, Winter Cold

The Hero cares not for a wild winter's storm. For it carries him swift on the back of the storm. All may be lost and our hearts may be worn, but a Hero fights forever.

- Cressida Cowell

topic: Hero, Heart, Winter

I actually liked the disolation of winter; it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer.

- Curtis Sittenfeld