Quotes about Ice
The 'last issue of history' will be a conflict between 'Atheism and its countless forms and Calvinism. The other systems will be crushed as the half-rotten ice between two great bergs.
— Charles Hodge
when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
— Job 38:30
By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
— Job 37:10
darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,
— Job 6:16
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting…. Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
— Robert Frost
From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
— Job 38:29
Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round; In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on your hand a turquoise blue, Success will bless what'er you do.
— Anonymous
She breathes in the cold air; pellets of blown ice whip against her face. The wind's getting up, as the TV said it would. Nonetheless there's something brisk about being out in the storm, something energizing: it whisks away the cobwebs, it makes you inhale. The
— Margaret Atwood
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.
— Herman Melville