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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Author:
Zhuangzi
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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
Author:
Andrew Wyeth
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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.
Author:
John Woolman
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The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.
Author:
Johnny Winter
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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.
Author:
Otis Williams
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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.
Author:
Laura Wilder
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You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.
Author:
Gilbert White
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There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
Author:
Bill Veeck
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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.
Author:
Bob Uecker
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I had slumps that lasted into the winter.
Author:
Bob Uecker
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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.
Author:
Mo Udall
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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.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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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.
Author:
Julia Tyler
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Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.
Author:
Janine Turner
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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.
Author:
Anthea Turner
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We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.
Author:
Steven Squyres
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If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Author:
Percy Shelley
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Author:
Percy Shelley
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Now is the winter of our discontent.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
Author:
Bob Seger
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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?
Author:
Richie Sambora
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For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.
Author:
Mikhail Saakashvili
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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.
Author:
Valentino Rossi
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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.
Author:
Valentino Rossi
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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.
Author:
David Rittenhouse
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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.
Author:
Mordecai Richler
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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.
Author:
Douglas Reed
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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.
Author:
Kathleen Quinlan
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By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.
Author:
Carroll Quigley
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I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
Author:
Edward Purcell
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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.
Author:
Jean Paul
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But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.
Author:
Gordon Parks
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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.
Author:
Solomon Ortiz
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In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback.
Author:
Mike Oldfield
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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.
Author:
Marvin Olasky
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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
Author:
Bill Nye
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During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.
Author:
Paul Nurse
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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.
Author:
Leslie Nielsen
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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.
Author:
Bob Ney
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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?
Author:
Anna Neagle
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The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea.
Author:
John McHugh
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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.
Author:
Hermann Maier
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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.
Author:
Kyle MacLachlan
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Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.
Author:
John Logan
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I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!
Author:
Blake Lively
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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
Author:
Sinclair Lewis
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That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.
Author:
Laurie Lee
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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.
Author:
Rick Larsen
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I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.
Author:
Duke Kahanamoku
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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.
Author:
Harry Johnston
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
Author:
Calamity Jane
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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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.
Author:
Rogers Hornsby
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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.
Author:
David Hobson
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
Author:
Damon Hill
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Author:
Heraclitus
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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.
Author:
Beth Henley
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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!
Author:
Trip Hawkins
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Author:
Sydney Harris
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We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
Author:
Philip Hamerton
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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.
Author:
Merle Haggard
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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.
Author:
Adrian Grenier
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But I plan on dedicating specific training to track this winter for the next racing season.
Author:
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
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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.
Author:
Stone Gossard
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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
Author:
Andy Goldsworthy
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
Author:
Andy Goldsworthy
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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.
Author:
Christopher Gist
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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.
Author:
Richard Gallienne
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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.
Author:
Adolf Galland
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You can't get too much winter in the winter.
Author:
Robert Frost
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I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.
Author:
Jonathan Frid
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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.
Author:
Morgan Freeman
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I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
Author:
Robert Fitzgerald
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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.
Author:
Agnetha Faltskog
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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.
Author:
Gregg Easterbrook
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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.
Author:
John Dyer
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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Author:
Norman Douglas
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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.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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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.
Author:
Rick Derringer
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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.
Author:
Quentin Crisp
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
Author:
Billy Connolly
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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.
Author:
Carlo Collodi
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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.
Author:
Toni Collette
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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.
Author:
C. Cherryh
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Author:
Anton Chekhov
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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.
Author:
Whittaker Chambers
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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.
Author:
George Catlin
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Author:
Willa Cather
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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.
Author:
Russ Carnahan
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Author:
Albert Camus
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Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
Author:
Robert Byrne
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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.
Author:
Terry Brooks
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Author:
Elizabeth Bowen
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
Author:
Hal Borland
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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.
Author:
Lizzie Borden
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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.
Author:
Lizzie Borden
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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.
Author:
William Bligh
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
Author:
William Blake
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Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
Author:
Ritchie Blackmore
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As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
Author:
Bo Bennett
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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.
Author:
Brendan Behan
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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.
Author:
Franz Beckenbauer
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And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
Author:
Roy Bean
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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.
Author:
Lewis Bates
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The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.
Author:
Cecilia Bartoli
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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.
Author:
Maria Bartiromo
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The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
Author:
Dave Barry
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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.
Author:
William Ashley
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It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.
Author:
Walt Alston
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While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
Author:
Tom Allen
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Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.
Author:
Tom Allen
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In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.
Author:
Tom Allen
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Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
Author:
Richard Adams
