In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~By Albert Camus ~
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis. ~By Calamity Jane ~
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 ~
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 ~
During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky. ~By Paul Nurse ~
You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter. ~By Gilbert White ~
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 ~
Now is the winter of our discontent. ~By William Shakespeare ~
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 ~
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record. ~By Johnny Winter ~
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 ~
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~By Anton Chekhov ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. ~By Geraldo Rivera ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I had slumps that lasted into the winter. ~By Bob Uecker ~
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 ~
I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender. ~By Jonathan Frid ~
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 ~
But I plan on dedicating specific training to track this winter for the next racing season. ~By Mark-Paul Gosselaar ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. ~By Sinclair Lewis ~
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. ~By Bo Bennett ~
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~By Robert Byrne ~
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 ~
That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is? ~By Richie Sambora ~
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 ~
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 have never seen snow and do not know what winter means. ~By Duke Kahanamoku ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? ~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time. ~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. ~By Dave Barry ~
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 ~
By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West. ~By Carroll Quigley ~
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 ~
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 ~
Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated. ~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
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 ~
In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback. ~By Mike Oldfield ~
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 ~
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 ~
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. ~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter. ~By Bob Seger ~
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 ~
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 ~
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. ~By Philip Gilbert Hamerton ~
It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers. ~By Walt Alston ~
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? ~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime. ~By Linus Torvalds ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have. ~By Tom Allen ~
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~By Victor Hugo ~
There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. ~By Billy Connolly ~
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 ~
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 ~
I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. ~By Edward M. Purcell ~
You can't get too much winter in the winter. ~By Robert Frost ~
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 in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity. ~By Tom Allen ~
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 ~
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball. ~By Bill Veeck ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in. ~By Steven Squyres ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. ~By John Fowles ~
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 ~
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ~By William Blake ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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