Sunday, 21 December 2014

21st December: Winter Solstice/Winter Begins

On the official first day of winter, 10 Quotes about winter.


  1. A snowflake is Winter's butterfly.
  2. Snowmen fall from heaven unassembled.
  3. Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. Richard Adams
  4. You can't get too much winter in the winter. Robert Frost
  5. O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley
  6. 'We were out walking one snowy morning soon after my eldest son learned to count. “It’s so cold today, it’s freezing,” I said. “It’s colder than that dad,” he said, “it’s fourzing.”' Letter in magazine
  7. A snowstorm is the chalkdust from heavenly handwriting.
  8. An artificial ski slope at Kidsgrove was closed yesterday because of snow and ice. Daily Telegraph
  9. Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." Robert Byrne
  10. The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? JB Priestley

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