(606 quotes found)
“Alas! in winter, dead and dark,Where can poor Robin go?”
William Allingham
“In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.”
John Fowles
“We must see how much of that offshore gas gets back up and how cold the winter is. It's going to be very tight to see whether we have enough natural gas for the winter.”
Tina Vital
“HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it had to try twice before it can cast a shadow. Three or four centuries ago, in England, no fact was better attested than that swallows passed the winter months in the mud at the bottom of their brooks, clinging together in globular masses. They have apparently been compelled to give up the custom and account of the foulness of the brooks. Sotus Ecobius discovered in Central Asia a whole nation of people who hibernate. By some investigators, the fasting of Lent is supposed to have been originally a modified form of hibernation, to which the Church gave a religious significance; but this view was strenuously opposed by that eminent authority, Bishop Kip, who did not wish any honors denied to the memory of the Founder of his family.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Our severest winter, commonly called the spring.”
William Cowper
“I had slumps that lasted into the winter.”
Bob Uecker
“In winter the milk goes to the cow's horns.”
Irish Proverb
“Does seem it's turning to winter around here,”
Chris Larson
“I don't know how good Winter Springs is, but it concerns me that Mainland is getting touchdowns from special teams and defense. If we fumble like we did tonight, (Mainland's) Tony Wilson picks it up and runs it back and it's already 7-0.”
Howie DeCristofaro
“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.”
David Hobson
