Weather Quotes - Page 29

• I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. Im just not a cold weather person.

  Emily Robison

  Winter, Chicago, Cold

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• On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.

  Willa Cather

  Men, Ice, Facts

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.577, Simon and Schuster

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• The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailors' Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religious, Taken, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.97, Penguin

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• The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?

  Pearl S. Buck

  Self, Sea, Long

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• The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

  Honore de Balzac

  Names, Earth, Arctic

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• The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather; to the wise man it is the desired port where he moors his bark gladly, as in some quiet haven of the Fortunate Isles; it is the golden west into which his sun sinks, and, sinking, casts back a glory upon the leaden cloud-tack which had darkly besieged his day.

  James Russell Lowell

  Death, Wise, Country

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.111

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• God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.

  James Russell Lowell

  Gold, Lace, Satan

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Basketball, Girl, Nice

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• Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Advice, Pilots, Passengers

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• Each petty hand
  Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will
  Govern and carry her to her ends, must know
  His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails;
  What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers;
  Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em;
  What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

  Ben Jonson

  Spring, Hands, Rocks

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The alchemist. Catiline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair”, p.188

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• Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control. The human race is its own rain and its own sun. It creates its own cyclones and anti-cyclones. The ridges of high pressure which we sometimes enjoy, the troughs of low pressure which we so often endure, are of our own making and nobody else's.

  Jan Struther

  Rain, Race, World

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.

  John Selden

  Fall, Cutting, Thinking

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• In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.

  Margaret Atwood

  Evening, Sullen, Thunder

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.48, Anchor

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• What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

  Robin Morgan

  Irony, Checks, Foul

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.334, Open Road Media

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• Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.

  Jean Rhys

  Cold

  1934 Voyage in the Dark, ch.3.

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• August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

  Gertrude Stein

  August, Hot, Months

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

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• If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Being Depressed, Lethargy

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• Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Rely Upon, Fiction, Literature

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Games, Life Is, Life Is A Game

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.277, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.

  Betty MacDonald

  Country, Mean, Differences

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• Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

  Samuel Smiles

  Heart, Quality, Excellent

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.219

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• Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.

  Nancy Mitford

  Reading, Yesterday, People

  Nancy Mitford (1962). “The water beetle”

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• Weather creates character.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Character

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.20, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We feel entitled to dominate it, like everything else in the environment, and when we can't are more panic-stricken than primitives who know that when nature is out of control they can only pray to the gods.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  United States, Degrees, Panic

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• War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Affair, States

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