Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.

We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."

I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.

My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.