quotations about winter
In the winter, it is often difficult to get up and get moving, because it is so cold and dark outside. You wake up in the morning, when it's dark; when you return home from work, it's dark.
RAQUEL A. STUART
The Audacity of Self: Dare to Put You First
I love travelling during the winter. I take off to the mountains. The biting cold seems to open up all my senses and makes them sharper.
SANDEEP SINGH
"Cold is gold for tourism industry", The Statesman, February 7, 2016
Technically, winter is way more stylish now than when we were kids. When I was in high school I wouldn't be caught dead in winter boots. Without naming names, we all know there are a variety of fashionable boots out there to complete any winter look at any age. Coats are nicer now, hats are adorable. But still. My hands are dry, my hair has static, my lips are cracked and I'm so very pale. Bronzer and vitamin E lipstick are my go to staples to get me through this season. That and visions of warmer days.
SIDRA RUBIN
"Why Winter Is Cramping My Style", The Suburban, February 1, 2016
In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
All nature feels the renovating force
Of Winter, only to the thoughtless eye
In ruin seen.
JAMES THOMSON
"Winter", The Seasons
Winter is a season that often overstays its welcome. It's like a chunk of cheese that got shoved waay into the back of the fridge and wasn't found until it had developed so many life forms that it was officially recognized by the United Nations as a new country.
JERRY NELSON
"Late winter isn't always a dangerous time", Watertown Public Opinion, February 19, 2016
I have myself in winter felt hostile to those whom I could smile upon in May, and clasp to my bosom in June.
JOSEPH DENNIE
The Spirit of the Farmers' Museum, and Lay Preacher's Gazette
When the winter puts on its sullen aspect, and brings stillness and repose, affording a respite from the labors of the preceding months, inviting us to reflection and compensating for the want of attractions abroad by fire-side delights and home-felt joys; in all this interchange and variety, we find reason to acknowledge the wise and benevolent care of the God of seasons.
MOSES SEVERANCE
The American Manual: Or, New English Reader
Winter finds out what summer lays up.
CORYATE
attributed, Day's Collacon
When you're walking around in 13-degree weather, the only reason it doesn't kill you is because, at some point, you come back inside. It's not that the weather isn't trying to kill you, it's just that you don't give it quite enough time to succeed.
MIKE TODD
"Just Humor Me: The Winter is our discontent", The Montgomery Review, April 4, 2017
October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
With what was hopefully winter's last gasp behind us, I think back to when I first saw the snow stand still and unperturbed on the far-flung grounds of UConn, evenly plowed and in the habit of turning into tunnels. The streetlights shone brighter with the backdrop of the icy snow, and random flakes flew past my nose as I walked alone across the bridge near Mirror Lake. The snow! This once inconsequential day, merely colder than those delightful six weeks before UConn turns into a cage match between you and the wind, became a day where strings of violins glided over the covered ground, pushed by the East Wind, all the while laughing at the people who dared to walk through its cold. It told of times past and celebrated times present, and for ten minutes, winter was cool.
STEN SPINELLA
"Storytime with Sten: The melancholy of winter, the pressure of summer", Daily Campus, March 20, 2017
Winter is back, with or without snow.
KEVIN MYATT
"Winter is back, with or without snow", The Roanoke Times, March 14, 2017
The wolf of winter
Devours roads and towns
In his white hunger.
The wolf of winter
Sticks his paw into the city's rancid pot,
Wanly stirring its soup of whores and suicides.
KENNETH PATCHEN
"The Wolf of Winter", Selected Poems
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Jacob's Room
He that passeth a winter's day, escapeth an enemy.
PROSPER JOYLYOT DE CRÉBILLON
attributed, Day's Collacon
On average, weather-related vehicle crashes kill 6,253 people and injure more than 480,000 each year, according to the Department of Transportation. Most of these accidents occur when the roadways are wet, snowy or icy. When the weather takes a turn for the worse this winter, take precautions if you have to be out on the roadways. Whether there is a coating of snow or ice on the roadways, or the asphalt just looks wet, SLOW DOWN! If the temperature is near freezing, drive like you're on ice -- you may be!
KEVIN ARNONE
"Winter is a Killer: Simple Steps to Stay Safe", WX Edge, January 12, 2016
He found a place where he was not only content but, despite suffering mightily in winter, was filled with a sense of joy and fulfilment.
SIMON WORRALL
"Why the North Pond Hermit Hid From People for 27 Years", National Geographic, April 9, 2017
If you felt like Dick or Debbie Downer this winter, it's OK to blame the weather. On the bright side, the mercury on the thermometer outside your kitchen window is rising weekly and the sun's light is becoming more frequent and direct. Before long, we'll be awash in color. And, perhaps, pollen.
NIC LOYD & LINDA WEIFORD
"Weathercatch: Why it was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad winter", The Spokesman-Review, April 5, 2017
These Winter nights against my window-pane
Nature with busy pencil draws designs
Of ferns and blossoms and fine spray of pines,
Oak-leaf and acorn and fantastic vines,
Which she will make when summer comes again--
Quaint arabesques in argent, flat and cold,
Like curious Chinese etchings.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
"Frost-Work"