Winter Quotes

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Now is the Winter of our Discontent

Every night in the winter it starts the same. Uncle David and Nels will fill their lower lips and Father will carve and Mother will knit and the yellow flames will make our faces burn, and then Uncle David will spit in the coffee can and rub his hands on his legs and take a breath and say: “It was when I was young…..” Then he will tell the story.

Until I came to Canada I never knew 'snow' was a four letter word.

This is Canada and we have winter. Life sucks. Get a toque and embrace it!

I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.

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

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.

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

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

Brew me a cup for a winter's night.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I'll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetheart fair.