#winter

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter. ↗

— Gilbert White

#depend #does #leave #may #winter

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record. ↗

— Johnny Winter

#blues #experiment #favorite #johnny #johnny winter

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right. ↗

— David Hobson

#cleaning #down #enjoy #feels #garden

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ↗

— Rogers Hornsby

#ask #baseball #i #i do #me

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting ↗

— William Shakespeare

#act- #age

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#nature #seasons #winter #love

Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any. ↗

— Otis Williams

#anyone #anything #asked #bill #coats

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#scotland #seasons #two #winter

The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself. ↗

— Sarah Jio

#friendship

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#jeanette-winterson #reality #sexing-the-cherry #imagination