| "In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago." »Christina G. Rossetti |
| "An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow." »Edwin Booth |
| "The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches." »e e cummings |
| "When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow its magical." »Pamela Ribon |
| "A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water." »Carl Reiner |
| "Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed." »Herodotus |
| "Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow." »Alice Mackenzie Swaim |
| "Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow." »Lydia Maria Child |
| "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." »Herodotus |
| "Skiing consists of wearing 3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink." »P. J. O'Rourke |
| "Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow." »Robert Frost |
| "You know what makes good hair for a snow man REAL hair. Don't ask me why, but it works." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go." »William Shakespeare |
| "Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." »Jeff Valdez |
| "To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring." »Christopher Pearce Cranch |
| "Listen, can you hear it Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring." »Andrew Schneider |
| "April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers." »T. S. Eliot |
| "To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them." »John Greenleaf Whittier |
| "There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Where today are the Pequot Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear to us I know you will cry with me, NEVER NEVER." »Tecumseh |
| "The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior" »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Many people do not realize that the snowshoe can be used for a great many things besides walking on snow. For instance, it can be used to carry pancakes from the stove to the breakfast table. Also, it can be used to carry uneaten pancakes from the table to the garbage. Finally, it can be used as a kind of stainer, where you force pancakes through the strings to see if a piece of gold got in a pancake somehow." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
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