Winter Quotes: Embracing the Beauty and Wonder of the Season (Page 3)

"You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity"

Stone Gossard, Musician

"The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes"

Kathleen Quinlan, Actress

"If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter"

Bob Uecker, Athlete

"I had slumps that lasted into the winter"

Bob Uecker, Athlete

"As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities are great for both Canada and Washington state"

Rick Larsen, Politician

"In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high"

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Author

"During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics"

Marvin Olasky, Educator

"I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage"

Mordecai Richler, Novelist

"We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in"

Steven Squyres, Scientist

"Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity"

Tom Allen, Politician

"In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, I sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L Johnson urging him to waive regulations to allow for the early sale of winter grade fuel to help with gasoline shortages and gasoline prices"

Bob Ney, Politician

"But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort"

C. J. Cherryh, Writer

"When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer"

Merle Haggard, Musician

"You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter"

Gilbert White, Scientist

"Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer"

Janine Turner, Actress

"An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up"

George Catlin, Artist

"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"

Anna Neagle, Actress

"Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

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

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy"

Harry Johnston, Explorer

"There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter"

Billy Connolly, Comedian

"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, Artist

"During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis"

Calamity Jane, Soldier

"Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm"

Carlo Collodi, Writer

"Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years"

William John Wills, Scientist

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