Winter Quotes

"Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated"

"Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome"

William Bligh, Soldier

"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own"

William E. Gladstone, Leader

"The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs"

Kyle MacLachlan, Actor

"Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects"

Ellsworth Huntington, Educator

"I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football"

Gregg Easterbrook, Author

"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity"

Jean Paul, Author

"I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!"

Blake Lively, Actress

"Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action"

Damon Hill, Athlete

"By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter"

Dave Barry, Author

"I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire"

Steven Tyler, Musician

"For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter"

Mo Udall, Politician

"Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any"

Otis Williams, Musician

"I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times"

John Woolman, Clergyman

"Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year"

John A. Logan, Soldier

"That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it"

Laurie Lee, Poet

"I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender"

Jonathan Frid, Actor

"But I plan on dedicating specific training to track this winter for the next racing season"

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

"But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, during the same winter, and that the money raised by them was also applied towards paying for the Orrery"

David Rittenhouse, Scientist

"Storage is important. Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them"

Anthea Turner, Entertainer

"They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party"

William Henry Ashley, Businessman

"That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?"

Richie Sambora, Musician

"We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive"

Toni Collette, Actress

"While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best"

Tom Allen, Politician

"In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have"

Tom Allen, Politician

"I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week"

Gene Kelly, Actor

"There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball"

Bill Veeck, Businessman

"Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place"

Christopher Gist, Explorer

"My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement"

Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring"

Rogers Hornsby, Athlete

"In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback"

Mike Oldfield, Musician

"It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers"

Walt Alston, Athlete

"He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him"

Douglas Reed, Journalist

"I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world"

Julia Gardiner Tyler, First Lady

"Winter is not a season, it's an occupation"

Sinclair Lewis, Novelist

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