Snow Quotes - Page 20

• No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Jewels

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• Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Alaska, Guy

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• Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on this great mountain could become nothing but a permanent and distant memory.

  Lembit Opik

  Memories, Thinking, Years

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• Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears to be as determined as any terrestrial corporate frontman to prevent a successful conclusion to the climate talks. How I know? Because every time anyone gets together to try to prevent global climate breakdown, He swaths the rich, densely habited parts of the world with snow and ice, while leaving obscurer places to cook.

  George Monbiot

  Running, Successful, Ice

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• I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Winter, Eight

  'Walden' (1854) 'Winter Visitors'

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• Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Responsibility, Men, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.242, Harvard University Press

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• If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Reading, Boys

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Moon, Men

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.160, New Directions Publishing

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• When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

  Samuel Ullman

  Ice, Long, Optimism

  "Inspired Economics" by Margaret Mason, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 1990.

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• There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.

  Derrick Jensen

  Inspiring, Dream, Memories

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.2, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to be snow on the ground. I thought, "This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer."

  Candace Bushnell

  Powerful, Book, Reading

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• It ain't the rain, the snow, the boss, the competition, the spouse, the money, the car, the job, or the kids - it's you! And it always has been.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Jobs, Rain, Positive Thinking

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• Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live in a manly way, die a manly death. To be thus a man was to give constant proof of one's manliness-to be more a man today than yesterday, more a man tomorrow than today. To be a man was to forge ever upward toward the peak of manhood, there to die amid the white snows of that peak.

  Yukio Mishima

  Men, White, Yesterday

  Yukio Mishima (2010). “Runaway Horses”, p.344, Random House

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• Given that we are passing the climate change bill, which is based on the supposition that the climate is getting warmer, let me point out that it is now snowing outside, in October.

  Peter Lilley

  Bills, October, Climate

  "Peter Lilley: 'I am a global lukewarmist' and other quotes" by Lauren Niland, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2012.

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• With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.

  Donald Trump

  Winter, Records, Levels

  "Trump cool to global warning". pagesix.com. February 14, 2010.

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• Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

  Mark Twain

  Sweet, Heart, Intellectual

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.430, Courier Corporation

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• When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole . . . when all the cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on this our earth - a melancholy bug.

  William Jacob Holland

  Life, Animal, Moon

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• A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• From a distance the world looks blue and green,
  and the snow-capped mountains white.
  From a distance the ocean meets the stream,
  and the eagle takes to flight.
  From a distance, there is harmony,
  and it echoes through the land.
  It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace,
  it's the voice of every man

  Bette Midler

  Distance, Ocean, Men

  Song: From a distance, Album: Some People's Lives, 2006

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• Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility of the scene was impressive; not the slightest animation or vitality anywhere. It was like a mental image of our globe in its primitive state - a spectacle of Chaos. Around is ice and snow and the remnants of internal fires; above, a sinister sky; below the sombre sea; and over all, the silence of the sepulchre!

  Louis Bernacchi

  Distance, Fire, Ice

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• In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Winter, Southern

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• It's been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. He personified a people who knew that it was not enough to depend on their own courage and goodness, that they must also seek help from God - their Father and preserver. Where did we begin to lose sight of that noble beginning, of our conviction that standards of right and wrong do exist and must be lived up to? Do we really think that we can have it both ways, that God will protect us in a time of crisis even as we turn away from him in our day-to-day life?

  Ronald Reagan

  God, Father, Thinking

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• The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Love, Sports, Order

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.266, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
  The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
  And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass,
  What we below could not see, Winter pass.

  Edward Thomas

  Flower, Winter, Land

  Edward Thomas (1997). “Poems”, p.16, Imperial War Museum

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• Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball on the street, then bird song would come back. If only I could sleep through the winter! When I am awake I feel only hatred that his power is so far and wide. God knows, he even fights with May; I picked flowers where there is now snow.

  Walther von der Vogelweide

  Girl, Song, Flower

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