Winter Days Quotes - Page 2

• Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

  Deborah Kerr

  Memories, Winter, Environmental

  "Fictional character: Terry McKay". "An Affair to Remember", www.imdb.com. 1957.

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• Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

  Ruth Stout

  Country, Winter, Snow

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• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

  William Blake

  Life, Thinking Of You, Nature

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (1905). “Collected Poems”, p.165, Psychology Press

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• Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Morning, Time, Spring

  Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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  In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.

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• It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations: Classic English Literature”, p.394, 谷月社

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• I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Fall, Autumn, Winter

  Andrew Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art (1979). “Works”

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• Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces, dressing up some scene for our entertainment. Lately we had a leafy wilderness; now bare twigs begin to prevail, and soon she will surprise us with a mantle of snow. Some green she thinks so good for our eyes that, like blue, she never banishes it entirely from our eyes, but has created evergreens.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Winter, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2799, Delphi Classics

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• What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

  John Burroughs

  Winter, Artist, Canvas

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

  Pietro Aretino

  Spring, Wine, Winter

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Peace, Winter, Quiet

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2009). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.268, Broadview Press

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• I always enjoy Oslo. It's a beautiful city, especially on a cold winter day.

  Greg Rutherford

  Beautiful, Winter, Cities

  "Greg Rutherford: 'I ate sushi with Charlize Theron and Usher'". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 7, 2016.

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• We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.

  Ruth Pitter

  Winter, Wind, Mind

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine...So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the town, trying to hear what was in the wind, to hear and carry it express! I well-nigh sunk all my capital in it, and lost my own breath into the bargain, running in the face of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Running, Morning

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• At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine, fabulous feather- light powder coaxing me to flee the confines of my room, brave the mostly plowed road up to the closest ski resort. To run from the cloying silence connected Mom and Dad, into encompassing stillness far away from city dirt and noise Far above suburban gridlock. Far beyond the grasp of home.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mom, Running, Dad

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• I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation. Or perhaps, immensely foolish to plainly - believe at all.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Believe, Winter

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• We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Summer, Exercise, Winter

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.324

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• O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Winter, Hair

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288

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• The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies. Its clear tones resound in the placid silence of the winter day, and echo long into the silver-blue serenity of night. The bell can only be seen at the turning of the year, when the days wind down into nothing, and get ready to march out again. When you hear the bell, you feel a tug at your heart. It is your immortal inspiration.

  Vera Nazarian

  Inspiration, Heart, Winter

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• Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?

  Alfred Austin

  Flower, Winter, Dumb

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

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• The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Winter, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.74, Xist Publishing

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• He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy.

  George Herbert

  Winter, Enemy

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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• We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. These were opinions I came to later, after I became a denizen of a City, an expatriate anxious to distance herself from the bumpkin ways of her youth. I am suddenly consumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Girl, Distance, Reading

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• Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease. I believe [without evidence] that is the infallible word of God and that's the way it is going to be for his creation. The earth will end only when God declares its time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.

  John Shimkus

  Summer, Believe, Winter

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