Snow Storms Quotes:

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics

topic: Dream, Snow, Storm, Flakes, Snow Storms

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Winter, White, Snow, Winter Months, Winter Rain

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

topic: Winter, Garden, Rivers, Snow Storms

Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Clouds, Air, Snow, Woodland, Snow Storms

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

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

- George William Curtis

topic: New Year, Determination, Years, Christian New Year, New Years Resolution

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

- John Ruskin

source: "Inner Journey". Book by Ratna Joshi (p. 99), January 14, 2010.

topic: Nature, Rain, Sunshine, Inspirational Nature, Inspirational Rain

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

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

- John Ruskin

topic: Change, Weather, Different, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

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

- Bill Watterson

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

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

Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.450, Penguin

topic: Nature, Travel, White, Masonry, Quarry

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

- J. B. Priestley

source: "Garden Witchery : Magick from the Ground Up". Book by by Ellen Dugan, p. 206, 2003.

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

On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk And snivering stem its magic weaves A mantle fair as lily-leaves.

- John Townsend Trowbridge

topic: Garden, Ivory, Snow, Turf, Snow Storms

And we didn't have cell phones. If you made plans to meet someone in a snow storm, and they didn't show up, you just had to assume they were devoured by wolves and go on with your life.

- Stephen Colbert

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Phones, Snow Storms

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

Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None of your meek, gentle, nonsensical, shilly-shallying snow-storms; not the sort where the flakes float lazily down from the sky as if they didn't care whether they ever got here or not, and then melt away as soon as they touch the earth, but a regular business-like whizzing, whirring, blurring, cutting snow-storm, warranted to freeze and stay on!

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

source: Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN – Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales and Poems for Children (Illustrated): Including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm & Penelope Hamilton Series: Rose o' the River, A Summer in a Cañon, The Birds' Christmas Carol, Timothy's Quest, The Arabian Nights, Golden Numbers & many more”, p.1409, e-artnow

topic: Cutting, Sky, Weather, Nonsensical, Flakes

The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.

- Marsilio Ficino

topic: Fate, Men, Doors, Snow Storms

The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car.

- Vladimir Nabokov

source: Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.6, Hamilton Books

topic: Morning, Car, Snow, Tissue Paper, Snow Storms