Favorite Winter Quotes

ByDr. Dan

For five continuous days last week, the temperature was in the 20s, ice and snow was on the ground, roads and trees were covered, and we lived a very non-Texas-like lifestyle, even with “thunder sleet” and frozen fog. I know it’s colder in Canada and the northern U.S. states, but this is a bit unusual for Fort Worth, Texas – unable to drive out of the driveway, sliding on our you-know-what while checking the mailbox, getting nothing but 24/7 weather reports on every local TV station.   In keeping with my recent “favorite quotes” submissions, I thought I would recognize our short, but interesting, Texas winter.

  • “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • “One kind word can warm three winter months.” Japanese Proverb
  • “Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful. And since we’ve no place to go, Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!” Sammy Cahn
  • “The temperature went from 90 to 55 like it saw a Texas State Trooper.”  El Arroyo Restaurant, Austin
  • “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
  • “Everything is bigger in Texas, except the Snowman.” Unknown
  • “Texas has two seasons: summer and winter. Usually, they alternate days within the same week.” Unknown
  • “When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.”  Unknown
  • “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” Isaiah 1:18
  • “Have you entered the treasury of snow,or have you seen the treasury of hail?” Job 38:22