Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Jay McLaren

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

e. e. cummings

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

Alexander Pope

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

Anne Sexton

The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.

Confucius

It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens.

Confucius

Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

Daniel Woodrell

I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.

Alfred Austin

So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.

Alexis Korner

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

Vince Young

Thanks for coming. But we're going to the Rose Bowl.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

Bret Michaels

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Arthur Schopenhauer

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Edgar Allan Poe

Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.

Edward Abbey

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Edward Abbey

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Amy Lowell

Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

Amy Winehouse

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

Paul Jensen

Rain, sleet, snow or strike, we'll get to work.

Boris Pasternak

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

Jerry Moore

We could treat it like a snow day and have just the drive-through open.

Lori Worley

We had a really warm winter, and then we get snow the first day of spring.

Chris Proulx

There's no snow and it's not -20 C, so it's actually pretty cool.

Confucius

Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Daniel Woodrell

Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

Alfred Hitchcock

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

Richard Strauss

He'd be better off shoveling snow.