January Quotes

• If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

  Roald Dahl

  July, Wish, Calendars

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• 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

  Home, Winter, Weather

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

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

  Bill Watterson

  Winter, Bad Mood, Cold

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• January is the month for dreaming.

  Jean Hersey

  Dream, Months

  Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”

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• We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

  Ellen Goodman

  New Year, Drawing, Years

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• To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Summer, June, Lovely

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• January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.

  Anne Truitt

  Light, Feelings, Months

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

  John Ruskin

  Wind, Wings, White

  John Ruskin (1903). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• Pale January lay
  In its cradle day by day
  Dead or living, hard to say.

  Alfred Austin

  Cradle, Pale, Lays

  Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

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• Winter dawn is the color of metal,
  The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.

  Sylvia Plath

  Winter, Color, Tree

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.133, Faber & Faber

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• Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Happiness, New Year

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• Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

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• There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.

  Hal Borland

  Winter, Two, Ease

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• January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

  Sara Coleridge

  Feet, Snow, Fingers

  Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.7

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• January is here, with eyes that keenly glow,
  A frost-mailed warrior
  striding a shadowy steed of snow.

  Edgar Fawcett

  Eye, Warrior, Snow

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• Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Fall, Wine

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• Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Hurt, Past

  "Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy". Book by Sarah Ban Breathnach, 1995.

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• It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.

  Wallace Stevens

  Ice, Sky, Stalking

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.319, Vintage

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• No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

  Charles Lamb

  New Year, Time, Years

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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• Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones.

  John Facenda

  Winter, Wind, December

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• If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers... February is for doers -

  Marc Parent

  Lasting Change, Dreamer, Doers

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• January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Evil, Theatre, Months

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• It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

  Boris Pasternak

  Snow, World, Tables

  Boris Pasternak, “Winter Night”

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• The twelve months...
  Snowy, Flowy, Blowy,
  Showery, Flowery, Bowery,
  Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy,
  Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy.

  George F. R. Ellis

  Twelve, Months, Breeze

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• January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Time, Grief, Flower

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.500, Delphi Classics

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