Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.
~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
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 seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
~By William Blake ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
~By Bo Bennett ~
We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.
~By Mordecai Richler ~
You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.
~By Gilbert White ~
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 ~
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.
~By John A. Logan ~
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.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
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 ~
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 ~
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.
~By Johnny Winter ~
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
~By Tom Allen ~
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 ~
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
~By Andrew Wyeth ~
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
~By John Fowles ~
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
~By Robert Byrne ~
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 ~
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
~By Sinclair Lewis ~
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
~By Bill Nye ~
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 ~
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 remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.
~By William Henry Ashley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.
~By Paul Nurse ~
Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.
~By Janine Turner ~
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities are great for both Canada and Washington state.
~By Rick Larsen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea.
~By John M. McHugh ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
~By Willa Cather ~
I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.
~By Terry Brooks ~
Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
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 ~
Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.
~By William John Wills ~
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 ~
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 ~
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
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 ~
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
~By Alexis Korner ~
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 ~
For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.
~By Mo Udall ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback.
~By Mike Oldfield ~
In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.
~By Tom Allen ~
They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.
~By William Henry Ashley ~
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.
~By Adrian Grenier ~
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
~By Richard Adams ~
We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.
~By Steven Squyres ~
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 ~
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.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
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 ~
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
~By Heraclitus ~
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 ~
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.
~By Brendan Behan ~
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
~By Calamity Jane ~
Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
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 ~
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
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 ~
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
~By Norman Douglas ~
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
~By Bob Seger ~
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 ~
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 ~
I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
~By Edward M. Purcell ~
The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs.
~By Kyle MacLachlan ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
~By Bill Veeck ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
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.
~By John Dyer ~
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
~By Dave Barry ~
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 ~
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 ~
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