Winter Night Quotes - Page 2

• I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.

  Raymond Chandler

  Winter, Night, Grieving

  "The Big Sleep". Book by Raymond Chandler, ch. 3, 1939.

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• When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.

  Rosa Parks

  Determination, Quilts, Winter

  "Parks remembered for her courage, humility". www.cnn.com. October 30, 2005.

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• You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)

  Tamora Pierce

  Winter, Night, Brave

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “In the Hand of the Goddess”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Morning, Spring, Winter

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• The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I have pursued for thirty years ; and though I go from this heated theatre into the squares of the Hospital, in the severest winter nights, with merely silk stockings on my legs, yet I scarcely ever have a cold.

  Astley Cooper

  Morning, Health, Mean

  Sir Astley Cooper (1825). “The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.58

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• You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

  Italo Calvino

  Reading, Winter, Night

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.3, Random House

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• The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us the creek is now able to carry off more flood water, but in the process we have lost our old willows where the owl hooted on a winter night and under which the cows switched flies in the noon shade. We lost the little marshy spot where our fringed gentians bloomed.

  Aldo Leopold

  Jobs, Winter, Night

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.165, Oxford University Press

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• They [potatoes] are good for boys cold fingers at suppertime on winter nights.

  Mary Virginia Terhune

  Winter, Boys, Night

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• Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

  Wilkie Collins

  Summer, Book, Pride

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.1097, e-artnow sro

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• Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight.

  Robert Southwell

  Lying, Silly, Winter

  Saint Robert Southwell, William Joseph Walter (1817). “St. Peter's Complaint: And Other Poems”, p.47

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• Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

  Horace Greeley

  Mean, Cutting, Winter

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• Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed.

  Roger Ebert

  Funny, Team, Hockey

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.211, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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