Winter Quotes: Embracing the Beauty and Wonder of the Season

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer"

"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means"

Duke Kahanamoku, Athlete

"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"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

"We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing"

Adrian Grenier, Actor

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

Tom Allen, Politician

"I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season"

Dan Wheldon, Celebrity

"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

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

Dave Barry, Author

"Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.""

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it"

Richard Adams, Clergyman

"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study"

John Dyer, Artist

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn"

Hal Borland, Author

"It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away"

Zhuangzi, Philosopher

"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

"The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below"

Robert Fitzgerald, Author

"If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below"

Lewis J. Bates

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

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

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

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"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

"The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"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

"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

"We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury"

Franz Beckenbauer, Athlete

"I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy"

Magnus Carlsen

"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

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