quotations about winter
I stood and watched the water and knew something had ended, that winter was gone and with it things undone and pledges unfulfilled.
MITCH MODE
"Outdoor Adventure", Star Journal, March 17, 2017
If the dark days of winter are a struggle where everything seems that little bit harder, it is not just your imagination. Scientists have discovered that the brain actually works differently throughout the year, with some parts far more active in the summer than in the winter months. In fact, brain activity related to attention and concentration peaks during the summer solstice and slumps to a low on the shortest day of the year.
SARAH KNAPTON
"Why winter is a mental struggle: human brain more active in summer, scientists find", The Telegraph, February 8, 2016
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
WILLA CATHER
My Antonia
Winter lives under a pigeon's wing, a dead wing with damp feathers.
ELIZABETH BISHOP
North & South
The winter is a slow time, but it's not lifeless. As you huddle against the cold on a February day, you may be ready for spring to come. But all around you, there are other forms of life that are ready too.
BETH BOTTS
"Winter wildlife: There's something alive out there in the garden", Chicago Tribune, February 24, 2016
Everywhere I go I hear comments that this is the longest winter ever, that people are just sick of it and that they'll never spend another winter here if at all possible. But not in my house. I have spent many decades now with that other guy, the one who gleefully checks weather reports online to see when it's going to snow and smiles broadly when he looks out the window and sees his dreams coming true in the form of big fat snowflakes. Happily he dons his winter apparel and out he goes to shovel the walk and driveway, twice a day or more if necessary. Couldn't be happier.
STEFANIE PETTIT
"Front Porch: For some, winter is a time of joy", The Spokesman-Review, March 15, 2017
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
CHARLES DICKENS
Great Expectations
His breath like silver arrows pierced the air,
The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,
His finger on all flowing waters sweet
Forbidding lay--motion nor sound was there:--
Nature was frozen dead,--and still and slow,
A winding sheet fell o'er her body fair,
Flaky and soft, from his wide wings of snow.
FANNY KEMBLE
Winter
The simplest way of coping with winter is to die in autumn.
J. B. S. HALDANE
Everything Has a History
Winter is a time to slow. To grab hold of that wheel that spins your days too quickly and give it a firm tug. To let your thoughts catch up with your body. To pin down that idea that's been circling your mind for months. To remember that life isn't an emergency.
KELSI TURNER
"Winter's Wisdom", Bemidji Pioneer, February 7, 2016
Winter is not an end. It is in transit. It is headed to bankruptcy. The sheriff will sell its stock for what he can get and an ice man will be the only bidder at the sale.
WILLIAM A. QUAYLE
"Headed Into Spring", The Sanctuary, March 17, 1921
Now shiv'ring nature mourns her ravish'd charms,
And sinks supine in winter's frozen arms.
MRS. LEAPOR
"Winter", Poems by Eminent Ladies
When I was younger the winter was my favorite. It was my birthday and it was New Year's and it was snowmen and snowball fights and snow angels.
STEN SPINELLA
"Storytime with Sten: The melancholy of winter, the pressure of summer", Daily Campus, March 20, 2017
Normally, spring is a lovely, wonderful time of year. A time of flowers, warm weather, Red Sox baseball, our favorite seasonal places reopening, reconnecting with nature, all the good stuff that lets us know winter is over.
CATHY SUMMERS
"The 'Crud' is Goind Around...", Cape Cod News, April 11, 2017
Winter is a time for spiraling inward and rejuvenating -- the counterbalance for the active, light-filled, busy times.
JACINTA FERRARI
"Appreciating and embracing the winter season", Penticton Western News, January 28, 2016
What's the point of complaining? We live in the north. Winter exists.
VIKI MATHER
"You might as well learn to love the winter", Northern Life, February 8, 2016
Winter is ruthless and sometimes sullen and murderous. The wild winter North has gulped ten thousand summers down nor left a froth of sunshine on its lips.
WILLIAM A. QUAYLE
"Headed Into Spring", The Sanctuary, March 17, 1921
Winter is the time of sacred balance and rejuvenation of life in preparation for the coming spring. It represents abundance, teaching and gratitude.
NOELLE VIGNOLA
Into Your Meditation: Metaphors On Essential Elements of a Meditation Practice
Winter's not gone yet, if the wild-geese fly that way.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
And now spring comes tripping along, and thanks to the brutal winter, we will be better than ever, fly higher thanks to having sunk so low, perhaps even achieve magnificence of some sort.
GARRISON KEILLOR
"If adversity is good for us, we'll be great", Alaska Dispatch News, April 10, 2017