Winter Quotes

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude."
-William Shakespeare

"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

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
-Anne Bradstreet

"Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses."
-Charles Kingsley

"Every mile is two in winter."
-George Herbert

"When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it's magical."
-Pamela Ribon

"O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know."
-William Cowper

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

"And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms."
-William Bradford

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
-Mark Twain

"Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoo."
-William Shakespeare

"Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.""
-Robert Byrne

"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 spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . ."
-Charles Dickens

"Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade."
-Charles Dickens

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

"When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
-Albert Camus

"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
-Albert Camus

"In the depth of winter, I learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
-Albert Camus

"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."
-Chuang Tzu

"What we'll hope to see, coming off a fantastic winter like this, is ... an increase in destination visitors next year."
-Brian Schott

"We're celebrating a fantastic 25th anniversary winter season and welcoming spring."
-Tony O'rourke

"I don't like starting the season off on the road, but I don't have much choice. Getting opponents to come here (during the winter) is very difficult."
-Mac Gifford

"No doubt housing activity was elevated over the winter because of very, very mild weather. One housing start in Syracuse, N.Y., in December is an awful lot. So we shouldn't be surprised by a big fall-off."
-Charles Lieberman

"We're just hoping to get through the winter."
-Linda Evans

"This winter will be warmer and drier than usual in the southern half of the U.S., wetter and stormier in the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes down into the Ohio River Valley."
-Jack Kelley

"We had a little bit of a cold front move through (Thursday). Temperatures can swing a bit this time of the year as we're shifting from winter to summer."
-Matt Bragaw

"We used to play a lot of two-on-two. My dad put a hoop up in our garage. We played in the winter and at least two or three times a week in the summer. It helped having three older brothers push you around. It made you stronger. They also teach you how to shoot, how to make post up moves. It was a very good thing to have three older brothers teach you the fundamentals of the game."
-Zach Braden

"Don't tell me that. We're going to have to pray for a very warm winter."
-John Powers