Snow Quotes and Sayings
Snow Quotes and Sayings
Depending on what part of the country you live in, snow is either romantic or a real pain in the ass.
Here are my favorite snow quotes, some on the positive side, and some downright negative.
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner
The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.
Martha Gellhorn
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Laozi
There’s a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.
Roland Emmerich
This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.
Charles Olson
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn’t, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn’t see a thing but we finally got it done.
Lalla Ward
An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
Lawrence Barrett
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
Roy Bean
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, ‘love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
Peter Tosh
And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.
Joan D. Vinge
And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
Bram Stoker
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
Alfred Hitchcock
Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.
Paul Parker
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it’s set a rolling it must increase.
Charles Caleb Colton
Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.
John Wanamaker
Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.
Richard H. Davis
Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.
Lewis J. Bates
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
Joan D. Vinge
The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.
William Henry Ashley
The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.
William Henry Ashley
Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market.
Marc Davis
The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.
Ernest Thompson Seton
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
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?
J. B. Priestley
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it “white”.
Bing Crosby
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Walter Scott
Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Anyway, so what he did was, he spread sheets for 100 yards and underneath them he’d put things so there were bumps and different levels and on top he’d put little bushes and if you didn’t look to close, it looked like snow!
Rod Steiger
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible.
Frederick Soddy
As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.
John Thorn
Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.
Simon Dach
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