Winter Cold Quotes:

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

- Solomon Ortiz

topic: Winter, Iraq, Soldier, Winter Cold, Valley Forge

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

- Deborah Kerr

source: "Fictional character: Terry McKay". "An Affair to Remember", www.imdb.com. 1957.

topic: Memories, Winter, Cold, Cold Weather, Warm Heart

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: "Ode to the West Wind" l. 70 (1819)

topic: Spring, Winter, Air, March Poems, Spring Inspirational

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Summer, Winter, Giving, Invincible Summer, Cold Weather

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

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

- Edith Sitwell

source: Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.176, A&C Black

topic: Home, Winter, Fire, Solstice, Cold Weather

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

- William Blake

topic: Life, Thinking Of You, Nature, Spring Season, Warm Heart

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

- Anton Chekhov

source: 'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

topic: Happiness, Happy, Summer, Summer And Winter, Summer Garden

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Summer, Nature, Spring, March Poems, Spring Day

Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

- Plutarch

topic: Summer, Winter, Land, Summer And Winter, Winter Cold

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

- Ruth Stout

topic: Summer, Country, Spring, Spring Summer, Snow Falling

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

- Bill Watterson

topic: Winter, Bad Mood, Cold, Cold Weather, Cold Days

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

- Pietro Aretino

source: Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

topic: Spring, Winter, Genius, Winter Cold, Winter Days

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

- Stanley Crawford

source: Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.55, UNM Press

topic: Winter, Thinking, Luxury, Cold Days, Winter Cold

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

source: "The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Solstice, Invincibility

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

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

- Yoko Ono

topic: Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude, Spring Summer, Summer And 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

Nothing burns like the cold.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Winter, Cold, Cold Weather, Winter Cold, Winter Season

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

- Dave Barry

topic: Sports, Football, Winter, Funny Sports, 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

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

- Will Rogers

topic: Atheist, Winter, Thinking, Nudists, Colony

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

- William Shakespeare

source: 1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.

topic: Birthday, Anniversary, Beauty, Four Seasons, 50th Wedding Anniversary

Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.

- Hilary Mantel

topic: Mother, Father, Winter, Winter Cold, Sharp Tongue

I always enjoy Oslo. It's a beautiful city, especially on a cold winter day.

- Greg Rutherford

source: "Greg Rutherford: 'I ate sushi with Charlize Theron and Usher'". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 7, 2016.

topic: Beautiful, Winter, Cities, Winter Cold, Winter Days

Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup o' tea by the hearth on a cold winter's night. 'Tis the look in yer husband's eyes when ye lay yer first child in his arms. Tis the ache in yer heart when ye watch the light in his eyes dim fer the last time, and know a part o' ye has gone out o' this world with him...

- Teresa Medeiros

source: Teresa Medeiros (2011). “Charming the Prince”, p.311, Bantam

topic: Children, Husband, Heart, Winter Cold, Roost

Tis a sad day when ye ha' t' pinch yerself t' see if ye're awake or in th' midst o' a night terror. 'Tis a really sad day when ye have t' pinch yerself twice." Old woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night

- Karen Hawkins

topic: Winter, Night, Granddaughter, Winter Cold, Night Terrors

Love doesna always mean burning flashes o' passion. Sometimes, it's jus' the warmth o' yer hearts as they beat yer day together." ~Old Woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night.

- Karen Hawkins

source: Karen Hawkins (2009). “Sleepless in Scotland”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mean, Passion, Heart, Winter Cold, Granddaughter

. . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . .

- Laurie R. King

source: Laurie R. King (2014). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.296, Macmillan

topic: Spring, Winter, Gun, Bursting Out, Winter Cold

Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

- Karen Elizabeth Gordon

source: Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

topic: Winter, Knitting, Wish, Knitting Needles, Winter Cold

You’re kind of a psycho. I get that.” “I might be,” Monica agreed, and gave her a slow, strange smile. “You’re one smart little freak. Now run away, smart little freak, before I change my mind and stick you in one of these old suitcases for some architect to find a hundred years from now.” Claire blinked. “Archaeologist.” Monica’s eyes turned winter cold. “Oh, you’d better start running away now.

- Rachel Caine

source: Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.107, Penguin

topic: Running, Smart, Eye, Monica, Winter Cold

Reminded of favorite poem by Wendy Cope which goes: At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle. The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle. And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle, And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful if you're single.

- Helen Fielding

source: Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

topic: Children, Winter, Air, Jingles, Winter Cold

Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people

- Tom Allen

topic: Winter, Unique, Land, Winter Cold

For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winters night, theres nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon.

- Martin Bashir

topic: Sports, Winter, Night, Maple, Limes

On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.

- Stendhal

topic: Morning, Winter, Soul, Winter Cold, Winter Morning

I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall there were children going to school in Saskatchewan with only sacking wrapped around their feet. We have gone into homes and found mothers and children lying on piles of bedding in the corner; they did not have the proper bedding equipment or the proper clothing to meet the rigours of a very cold winter.

- Tommy Douglas

topic: Mother, Children, Lying, Sacking, Rigour

Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.

- Horace Walpole

topic: Beautiful, Summer, Winter, Winter Cold

I'm a cold winter morning, y'all Summer's Eve.

- Ka

topic: Summer, Morning, Rap, Winter Cold, Winter Morning

The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Winter, Men, Thinking, Winter Cold, Thinking Man

When I think about the holidays, I think about the Salvation Army guys ringing bells in front of stores. They're always so nice to you and they're always willing to give a heart to heart conversation. They actually bear the winter cold to ask for your petty cash with a smile on their face. Fudge those guys.

- Zach Braff

topic: Nice, Heart, Holiday, Winter Cold, Heart To Heart

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

Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America and domesticate the earth. Leading the resistance is the Buffalo Field Campaign, a brave, dedicated group of activists. This hardy tribe lives out in the cold winters of Yellowstone, risking their freedom and lives to stand by their brown brethren in the hair coats.

- Doug Peacock

topic: Book, Winter, America, Winter Cold, Yellowstone

As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening.

- Tara Brach

topic: Inspirational, Powerful, Rip, Winter Cold, Bitter Cold

The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!

- Thomas Hood

topic: Morning, Winter, Autumn, Winter Cold, Winter Morning

The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.

- Tobias Smollett

topic: Winter, Cold, Highlander, Winter Cold