886 Quotes About Winter


  • Author Jamie Sives
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    I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.

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  • Author Maggie Stiefvater
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    I could have screamed, but I didn’t. I could have fought, but I didn’t. I just lay there and let it happen, watching the winter-white sky go gray above me.

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  • Author Maggie Stiefvater
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    I am standing here in the shed, and I'm waiting to see if my seeds are going to poke out ofthe dirt. I don't know if it's too early to look for signs of life or if, this time, winter has claimed my family for good.

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  • Author May Sarton
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    There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.

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  • Author Sophocles
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    You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

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  • Author Tobias Smollett
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    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.

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  • Author Wallace Stevens
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    One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow

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