Frost Quotes - Page 11

• The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.

  Nikola Tesla

  Attitude, Sunshine, Ideas

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.

  Liam O'Flaherty

  Hate, Men, Rocks

  Liam O'Flaherty (1980). “The Wave: And Other Stories”

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• You can clear the land, plow the field, spread the fertilizer, and plant the corn. But you cannot make it rain. You cannot prevent an early frost. You cannot determine exactly what will happen in your life. The rain may or may not fall, but one thing is certain: you will get a harvest only if you planted something in the field. It's important to do everything in our power to ensure our success, but we also need to let the universe take its course.

  Melody Beattie

  Rain, Fall, Land

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.73

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• Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting

  Bruce Willis

  Play, Space, Interesting

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• Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

  George Eliot

  Christmas, Fashion, Hair

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.179, George Eliot

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• The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Years, People, Return

  Neala Schleuning, Meridel Le Sueur (1983). “America, song we sang without knowing: the life and ideas of Meridel LeSueur”, Don Olson Distribution

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• Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Fall, Farewell

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
  Pale in her anger washes all the air,
  That rheumatic diseases do abound;
  And through this distemperature we see
  The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Science, Moon

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

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• PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Philosophy, Names

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Across the land a faint blue veil of mist
  Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober
  Till frost shall make them flame; silent and whist
  The drooping cherry orchards of October
  Like mournful pennons hang their shriveling leaves
  Russet and orange: all things now decay;
  Long since ye garnered in your autumn sheaves,
  And sad the robins pipe at set of day.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Autumn, Blue, Flames

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold a long time, to behold the junipers, shagged with ice, the spruces, rough in the distant glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land, full of the same wind, blowing in the same bare place for the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing herself, beholds nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.

  Wallace Stevens

  Time, Winter, Thinking

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.89, Vintage

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• First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Letting Go, Firsts, Reason

  Sarah Addison Allen (2015). “First Frost”, p.10, St. Martin's Press

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