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"

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

"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

"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

"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 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

"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

"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

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

Richard Adams, Clergyman

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

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"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

"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

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

Hal Borland, Author

"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

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

Duke Kahanamoku, Athlete

"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

"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

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

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"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

"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

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

John M. McHugh, Politician

"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

"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

"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

"My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream"

Kristi Yamaguchi, Athlete

"Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow"

Roy Bean, Judge

"My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter"

Bob Seger, Musician

"I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow"

Agnetha Faltskog, Musician

"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

"We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do"

Rick Derringer, Musician

"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

"Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

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