Quotes About Old Man Winter

#1. When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.

Christopher Gist

#2. Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#3. But listen well. In Tir na nOg, because there is no sorrow, there is no joy.
Do you hear the meaning of the seachain's song?

Alexandra Ripley

#4. helplessly through

Jessica Sorensen

#5. HOLLY KING is a symbol of the waning forces of Nature ... The Holly King is depicted as an old man in winter garb. His head bears a wreath of holly and he often carries a staff that is typically a holly branch. Some Santa Claus figures are actually Holly King figures.

Raven Grimassi

#6. How crazy it was that people who were so incredibly alive could get so incredibly dead

Tim O'Brien

#7. You start with a darkness to move through
but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

Dean Young

#8. For our soul is raised out of nature through the truly sublime, sways with high spirits, and is filled with proud joy, as if itself had created what it hears.

Longinus

#9. Winter reveals the massive, complex, muscular organization of the ancient oak. Like an old man stripped of his Savile Row, tailored suit - no less impressive in his mature nakedness.

William Boyd

#10. Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

Richard Von Weizsaecker

#11. I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Noel Coward

#12. There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.

Carl Linnaeus

#13. I don't know what good I could do."
"None of us does. That doesn't let us off the hook.

David Levithan

#14. Though they spent so much time trying to make themselves beautiful, you were not supposed to admit to women that beauty mattered.

Robert Galbraith