“Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.”
Dream Days (1898), The Reluctant Dragon
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British novelist 1859–1932Related quotes
“All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate…
Snow… unceasing snow”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Source: Japanese Haiku
“Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”
Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker
Interview on CBS TV (20 February 1977).
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
On Toy Story as quoted in Fortune (18 September 1995)
1990s
“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=jU8EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22I+used+to+be+Snow+White+but+I+drifted%22&pg=PA64-IA1#v=onepage in Life magazine (18 April 1969)
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
The First Snowfall http://www.bartleby.com/248/351.html, st. 1 (1849)
“The brightest blades grow dim with rust,
The fairest meadow white with snow.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Chanson without Music; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“First communion of chlorotic young girls in the snow.”
Alphonse Allais (1854–1905) French writer and humourist
Première communion de jeunes filles chlorotiques par un temps de neige.
Title of an entirely white painting exhibited at Expositions des Arts Incohérents 1884-5 organised by Jules Lèvy.
See wikipedia on chlorosis, a form on anemia. Also cf. the later "white paintings" by Robert Rauschenberg.