Winter Months Quotes:

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

- John Burroughs

topic: Winter, Fire, Air, Winter Days, Winter Months

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

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

- Tom Allen

topic: Character, Winter, Months, Winter Months, Cute Winter

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

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

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

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

- Shirley Ann Grau

topic: Winter, Pet, Stuff, Evangelists, Winter Months

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

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

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

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

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

- William Blake

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

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

- Hal Borland

topic: Inspirational, Meaningful, Hope, March Poems, Spring Garden

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

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

- Willa Cather

topic: Country, Lying, Winter, Sullen, Stale

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

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Humour And Laughter, Inspirational Laughter

Now is the winter of our discontent.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Winter, Discontent, Inside And Outside, Most Memorable, Deformity

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

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

In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.

- Edna O'Brien

topic: Spring, Real, Winter, Resurgence, Winter Months

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

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

topic: Winter, Snow, Soil, Winter Months, Tropics

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

- e. e. cummings

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

Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.

- Isabella Beeton

topic: Spring, Winter, Dust, Winter Months, House Cleaning

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.

- George Ade

topic: Sweet, Winter, Names, Winter Months

Winter-related accidents and illnesses account for a large number of all senior health-related insurance claims during the winter months. But that doesn't mean that seniors have to sit this season out. By taking a few precautions, seniors can enjoy winter safely and securely.

- Scott Perry

topic: Senior, Mean, Winter, Large Numbers, Winter Months

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

Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?

- Harrison Salisbury

source: Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner

topic: Children, Winter, Cities, Winter Months

What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

topic: Inspirational, Summer, Running, Summer And Winter, Winter Months

Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and generally appearing throughout the late fall and winter months.

- Paul Stamets

topic: Fall, Winter, Mushrooms, Stumps, Winter Months

Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Winter, Ideas, Piglet, Winter Months

My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.

- Jenkin Lloyd Jones

source: Jenkin Lloyd Jones (2016). “An Artilleryman's Civil War Diary (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS

topic: Summer, Father, Winter, Winter Months, Summer Time