Martha Gellhorn Quotes

Linus: It was a short summer, Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown: And it looks like it's gonna be a looong winter.

In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

Denmark's fall and winter were really cold and long, actually, but my job often takes me to paradise, so I can't complain.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.

I think that if anyone bothered to take a survey, they would find a sharp decline in atheism during the winters in Cleveland, Ohio.

A long summer always meant a long winter to come.

November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.

Dull winter will re-appear.

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.

Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn't going out. He says its colder because the earth's orbit is taking us farther from the sun. He says winter will be here soon. Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through the roots, recover themselves and are restored to their former solid texture. But the strong air of winter compresses and solidifies them.

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.