Snow Day Quotes:

There's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you're special.

- Carol Rifka Brunt

source: Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.31, Dial Press

topic: Beautiful, Believe, Snow, Snow Day

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

- Susan Orlean

source: "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.

topic: Fall, Sky, Snow, Snow Falling, Winter Snow

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

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

topic: Life, Spring, Adversity, Spring Awakening, Spring Gardening

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

- Sara Coleridge

source: Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.7

topic: Feet, Snow, January, Winter Snow, First Snow

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

- Markus Zusak

topic: Friendship, Inspiring, Perfect, Lasting Friendship, Snowball

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

- Bill Watterson

topic: Winning, Snow, Hobbes, Winning The Lottery, Two Cents

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

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

- Susan Orlean

source: "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.

topic: Children, Snow, Joy, Having Children, Incomparable

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

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Fear, Wind, Snow, Coldness, Winter Cold

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Good Night, Summer, Nature, Inspiring Nature, Summer And Winter

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

- Mae West

source: In Joseph Weintraub Peel Me a Grape (1975) p. 47

topic: Funny, Witty, Women, Risque, Innuendo

Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day. You wake up and the world says, 'Oops, it's too much fun to go to school, you've got to stay home and deal with the snow!'

- Adam Savage

topic: New York, Children, Growing Up, Californians, Snow Day

Normally you have news, weather and travel.....but not on snow day, on snow day news is weather is travel.

- Michael McIntyre

topic: Witty, Weather, Snow, Snow Day

I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift.

- Susan Orlean

source: "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.

topic: School, Son, Ideas, Snow Day

I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.

- Susan Orlean

topic: Children, Winter, Ohio, Snow Day

Most people work fifty weeks a year so they can do this the other 2. Well the smart ones live in a ski resort, where the boss lets them have powder snow days off. And almost forty feet of snow falls every winter thats a lot of days off. A lot of doing what you moved here to do. Most major ski resorts are now so big that regardles of what kind ofjob you have in a city there's probably a job almost exactly like yours in a ski rsort like this. So quit your job and rent that U-haul trailer now so next winter this can be you. Not you just sitting there watching this and wishing that this was you.

- Warren Miller

topic: Jobs, Smart, Fall, Snow Falling, Quitting Your Job