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- Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), My Antonia
- Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.
- Lydia M. Child, Flowers for Children--Thanksgiving Day
- Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875), Saint's Tragedy (act III, sc. 1)
- In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
- Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), A Christmas Carol
- If there comes a little thaw,
Still the air is chill and raw,
Here and there a patch of snow,
Dirtier than the ground below,
Dribbles down a marshy flood;
Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing,
"This is Spring." - Christopher Pearce Cranch, A Spring Growl
- There's a difference between knowing the Path and walking the Path.
- Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999
- It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), Crime & Punishment, Chapter 1
- Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992
- Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating?
Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now. - Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992
- People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
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