Winter Quotes

• I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you're gone and there's no one to give it to anymore. Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that happened this past fall and winter. It's all still there, like a movie I can watch when I want to. Which is never.

  

  Rebecca Stead
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.

  

  William Hamilton Gibson
  • Falling
  • Snowflake
  • Illustrators

• California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

  

  Eric Ripert
  • Good
  • Great
  • California

• 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.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • War
  • Lost
  • Changed

• Once, I lived in an apartment with a skylight in the bathroom. Every winter, it would snow through the skyline, but we got a discount because of it.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Winter
  • Snow

• Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Winter
  • Quiet
  • Hurry

• The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Food
  • Cold
  • Excellent

• I was in Cuba in the winter of 1937. I was playing in Cuba, and I'm in the shower, and I slipped and caught myself with my right arm. I felt something pull right then. Then, in '38, when I came back, my arm was messed up.

  

  Leon Day
  • Up
  • Winter

• I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!

  

  Blake Lively
  • California
  • Winter

• It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.

  

  Jane Krakowski
  • Job
  • Rock
  • Winter

• The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between where the price is right. I have found this to be true to this day whether dealing in paper hats, winter underwear or hotels.

  

  Conrad Hilton
  • True
  • Winter

• I love collard greens and sweet potatoes. But like, traveling, I'm always just looking for that thing where you feel like there's love in the food. Like one of the best things, in Brazil it's feijoada. I was in Tobago in the winter, and I had the best roti I've ever had, with curry goat.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • Food
  • Sweet
  • Winter

• It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Sports

• The Bowery Hotel is always a great place to meet people for drinks. It's so cozy in there, especially in the late fall and winter.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • People
  • Great
  • Fall

• A few old men began to say there had been a winter like this when they were warriors, and that it was a year of catastrophe and disappointment. But old men will ever spin this wheel. The summers were always hotter and the winters colder in the days of their strength, and the air thick with epic drama and portent.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men
  • Air
  • Drama

• From my grandmother, I started drinking warm water with lemon every morning just before breakfast. That's something she has been doing for years. It has helped me a lot with digestion. And then also eating seasonal fruit and vegetables, like not eating tomatoes in the winter.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • She
  • Water
  • Morning

• 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.

  

  Ellsworth Huntington
  • Life
  • Winter

• A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Night
  • Church

• A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Winter
  • Tales
  • Goblin

• Next time you see an ant, remember: winter is coming! The best time to prepare for tomorrow is today.

  

  Haddon W. Robinson
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Today

• Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • House
  • Summer
  • Ocean

• 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.

  

  Anthea Turner
  • Important
  • Summer
  • Winter

• 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.

  

  John Dyer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Study

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