Quotations about

Winter

There are only two seasons—winter and Baseball.

—Bill Veeck

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

—Doug Larson

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

—Tom Allen

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

—Duke Kahanamoku

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

—J. M. Barrie

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

—Andy Goldsworthy

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

—Sinclair Lewis

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

—Roy Bean

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

—Carl Reiner

The year hastens to its close. What is it to me? That I am twenty-five or fifty-eight is as nothing. Should I mourn that the spring flowers are gone, that the summer fruit has ripened, that the harvest is reaped, that the snow has fallen?

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

—Albert Camus

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay—Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

—Charles Kingsley

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons—That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes—

—Emily Dickinson

Every mile is two in winter.

—George Herbert