Snow Quotes - Page 16

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. They walked across malevolent swirling whiteness and did not know if they would survive. Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure. That was what looking at the witch was like.

I can't just go up to people standing in the snow at the German-Austrian border and ask them: "Are you an Islamist?" When people flee to us from war zones, we first have to help. But we also have to be quick to look very closely at who it is that is coming.

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.

As chaste as unsunned snow.

Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.

The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.

The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.

Elijah Snow: 'Who have you pissed off this time, John?' John Stone: 'Sumatran robot death sluts -- Dammit, ONE of these buttons fires the atomic death biter --

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.

Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills?

Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

Katniss, I don't think President Snow will kill Peeta. If he does, he won't have any way to hurt you." "So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. "Whatever it takes to break you.

But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull little Swiss village. But now Jack Harper’s come and shaken me up, and there are snowflakes all over the place, whirling around until I don’t know what I think anymore. And bits of glitter, too. Tiny bits of shiny, secret excitement.

It was far too cold. The second I got out I had this incredible headache, I'm just not used to it. The last time I saw snow was years and years ago.

The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?

I stood beside a hill Smooth with new-laid snow, A single star looked out From the cold evening glow. There was not other creature That saw what I could see, I stood and watched the evening star As long as it watched me.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.