When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer. ~By Merle Haggard ~
The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes. ~By Kathleen Quinlan ~
I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender. ~By Jonathan Frid ~
Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects. ~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
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. ~By Franz Beckenbauer ~
It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers. ~By Walt Alston ~
Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. ~By Geraldo Rivera ~
I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week. ~By Gene Kelly ~
We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in. ~By Steven Squyres ~
The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea. ~By John M. McHugh ~
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~By Anton Chekhov ~
My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow? ~By Black Elk ~
This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal. ~By Paul Nurse ~
Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime. ~By Linus Torvalds ~
The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time. ~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. ~By Norman Douglas ~
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. ~By Jean Paul ~
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. ~By Thomas Carlyle ~
By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West. ~By Carroll Quigley ~
Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. ~By Carlo Collodi ~
But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived. ~By Gordon Parks ~
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. ~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
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. ~By Beth Henley ~
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk. ~By Bill Nye ~
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record. ~By Johnny Winter ~
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? ~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
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. ~By William Bligh ~
Storage is important. Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them. ~By Anthea Turner ~
We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country. ~By Chief Joseph ~
That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it. ~By Laurie Lee ~
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? ~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. ~By Peter Agre ~
I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it. ~By Michael McKean ~
And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. ~By Roy Bean ~
Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people. ~By Tom Allen ~
I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right. ~By David Hobson ~
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! ~By Trip Hawkins ~
When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place. ~By Christopher Gist ~
He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him. ~By Douglas Reed ~
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. ~By Russ Carnahan ~
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter. ~By Bob Seger ~
But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, during the same winter, and that the money raised by them was also applied towards paying for the Orrery. ~By David Rittenhouse ~
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. ~By Richard Adams ~
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ~By William Blake ~
In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia. ~By James Earl Jones ~
Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next. ~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any. ~By Otis Williams ~
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~By Victor Hugo ~
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. ~By Valentino Rossi ~
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~By Robert Byrne ~
Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. ~By Marvin Olasky ~
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. ~By Leslie Nielsen ~
We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive. ~By Toni Collette ~
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. ~By Robert H. Schuller ~
I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football. ~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, I sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L Johnson urging him to waive regulations to allow for the early sale of winter grade fuel to help with gasoline shortages and gasoline prices. ~By Bob Ney ~
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. ~By Rick Derringer ~
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings. ~By Quentin Crisp ~
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up. ~By George Catlin ~
I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means. ~By Duke Kahanamoku ~
For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement. ~By Mikhail Saakashvili ~
While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best. ~By Tom Allen ~
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. ~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
I had slumps that lasted into the winter. ~By Bob Uecker ~
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. ~By Dave Barry ~
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~By Rogers Hornsby ~
There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. ~By Billy Connolly ~
As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy. ~By Harry Johnston ~
Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action. ~By Damon Hill ~
Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game. ~By Peter Forsberg ~
I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world. ~By Julia Gardiner Tyler ~
Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated. ~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity. ~By Stone Gossard ~
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ~By Hal Borland ~
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. ~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
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. ~By Morgan Freeman ~
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. ~By Philip Gilbert Hamerton ~
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. ~By John Woolman ~
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year. ~By John A. Logan ~
I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats! ~By Blake Lively ~
What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long? ~By Anna Neagle ~
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. ~By Zhuangzi ~
You can't get too much winter in the winter. ~By Robert Frost ~
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. ~By William E. Gladstone ~
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. ~By John Fowles ~
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. ~By Valentino Rossi ~
Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer. ~By Janine Turner ~
I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job. ~By Nolan Ryan ~
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. ~By Charles Dickens ~
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. ~By Lewis J. Bates ~
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes. ~By Whittaker Chambers ~
Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia. ~By Adolf Galland ~
The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort. ~By C. J. Cherryh ~
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. ~By Bo Bennett ~
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. ~By Lizzie Andrew Borden ~
If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter. ~By Bob Uecker ~
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. ~By Maria Bartiromo ~
Now is the winter of our discontent. ~By William Shakespeare ~
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. ~By Agnetha Faltskog ~
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. ~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
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