Retaining Winter Heat

Famous quotes containing the words retaining, winter and/or heat:

“Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.”
—Fawn M. Brodie (1915–1981)

“When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winter ... decent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The LORD will afflict you with consumption, fever, inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, and with blight and mildew...”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 28:22.