We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.
~By Steven Squyres ~
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 ~
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
~By Richard Adams ~
I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.
~By Jonathan Frid ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
You can't get too much winter in the winter.
~By Robert Frost ~
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 ~
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
~By Bill Veeck ~
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 ~
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 ~
I had slumps that lasted into the winter.
~By Bob Uecker ~
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 ~
But I plan on dedicating specific training to track this winter for the next racing season.
~By Mark-Paul Gosselaar ~
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
~By Bob Seger ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
~By Edward M. Purcell ~
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
~By Calamity Jane ~
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
~By Albert Camus ~
Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
~By Lizzie Andrew Borden ~
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 ~
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.
~By John A. Logan ~
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
~By Philip Gilbert Hamerton ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.
~By Walt Alston ~
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 ~
By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
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 ~
I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.
~By Duke Kahanamoku ~
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
~By William Blake ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
~By Victor Hugo ~
I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.
~By Steven Tyler ~
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 ~
There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
~By Billy Connolly ~
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 ~
And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
~By Roy Bean ~
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 ~
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
~By Bo Bennett ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.
~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
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 ~
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 ~
While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
~By Tom Allen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
~By Heraclitus ~
During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.
~By Paul Nurse ~
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
~By Alexis Korner ~
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 ~
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 ~
Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
~By Robert Byrne ~
Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.
~By Tom Allen ~
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
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 ~
What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
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 ~
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 ~
Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.
~By Johnny Winter ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter.
~By Hermann Maier ~
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
~By Dave Barry ~
Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.
~By Janine Turner ~
In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.
~By Tom Allen ~
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 ~
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
~By John Fowles ~
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 ~
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