Winter Hardship Quotes

There will be pestilence and famine in Central Europe next winter. This is likely to be followed by political revolution and Communist infiltration.

Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.

My situation is inexpressibly distressing, to see the winter frost approaching upon a naked army, the time of their service within a few weeks of expiring, and no provision yet made for such important events. The military chest is totally exhausted; the paymaster has not a single dollar; the quartermaster the same; the greater part of the troops are not far from mutiny, upon the deduction from their stated allowances : if there is not more punctuality in future, the army must absolutely break up

Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.

Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy.

The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds.

Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.

This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you.

Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon.

Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

I came into Chicago in winter - I'd never been so cold in my life! I was very homesick, and a poor student at that time. America seemed so different and so filled with amazing things - and almost all of them were out of my reach.