{"topic":"winter","quotes":[{"quote":"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.","author":"Albert Camus"},{"quote":"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.","author":"Anne Bradstreet"},{"quote":"Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.","author":"Anne Morrow Lindbergh"},{"quote":"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.","author":"Charles Kingsley"},{"quote":"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.","author":"Christina Rossetti"},{"quote":"There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--","author":"Emily Dickinson"},{"quote":"Every mile is two in winter.","author":"George Herbert"},{"quote":"One kind word can warm three winter months.","author":"Japanese proverb"},{"quote":"The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.","author":"John Burroughs"},{"quote":"When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it�s magical.","author":"Pamela Ribon"},{"quote":"When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds.","author":"Victor Hugo"},{"quote":"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.","author":"Willa Cather"},{"quote":"Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.","author":"William Bradford"},{"quote":"And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.","author":"William Cowper"},{"quote":"O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.","author":"William Shakespeare"},{"quote":"Blow, blow, thou winter wind<br> Thou art not so unkind,<br> As man's ingratitude.","author":"William Shakespeare"},{"quote":"Now is the winter of our discontent <br> Made glorious summer by this son of York, <br> And all the clouds that loured upon our house <br> In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.","author":"William Shakespeare"},{"quote":"Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.","author":"William Shakespeare"},{"quote":"Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare."}]}