Wintry Quotes

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you dies each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. - Ernest Hemingway

With wintry conditions arriving in the higher elevations, children are facing a potentially deadly combination of cold, malnutrition, and disease... Most housing has been destroyed in the hardest-hit areas, so the survival of thousands of young children is now at stake. Shelter, nutrition, and health care for children must be a priority. - Ann Veneman

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. - Lytton Strachey

Our resorts have all had a very strong March, a very wintry March. The mountains are still getting significant snowfall. - Scott Kaden

It was the schooner Hesperus, / That sailed the wintry sea; / And the skipper had taken his little daughter, / To bear him company. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you don't have a good ground organization, the message isn't going to get through, especially on a cold wintry night in January. - Steve Forbes

I must learn to walk this long unlovely wintry way, looking for spectacles, shunning the cruel looking-glass, laughing at my clumsiness before others mistakenly condole, not expecting gallantry yet disappointed to receive none, apprehending every ache of shaft of pain, alive to blinding flashes of mortality, unarmed, totally vulnerable. - Diana Cooper

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. - Charles Dickens

Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing Till one soft shower from the south shall bid And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring. - Robert Bridges

At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor. - Herman Melville