Groundhog Day is a traditional holiday celebrated on February 2. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, then spring will come early, if it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, and the winter weather will persist for six more weeks.
Many Canadians take the time to observe Groundhog Day on February 2 each year, which is also Candlemas. Groundhog Day in Canada focuses on the concept of a groundhog coming out of its home in mid-winter to “predict” if spring is on its way in the northern hemisphere.
Modern customs of the holiday involve celebrations where early morning festivals are held to watch the groundhog emerging from its burrow. Here we have a huge collection of Groundhog Day quotes images which you can share with your near and dear once.
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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ~Bill Vaughn
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Old Groundhog stretched in his leafy bed.
He turned over slowly and then he said,
“I wonder if spring is on the way,
I’ll go and check the weather today…”
~Author Unknown, “Groundhog Day”
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To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. ~W.J. Vogel
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Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?
~Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
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The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. ~Patrick Young
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Though the groundhog and crocus creep into their holes
It’s Spring, and the almanac shows it;
Though a polar wave over the continent rolls
It’s Spring! And we don’t care who knows it!
~Robert J. Burdette, “March,” c.1888
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One Swallow maketh not Summer; nor one Woodcock a Winter. ~William Camden,Remains, 1605
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If Candlemas Day be fair and bright,
Winter will have another fight;
But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain,
Winter is gone, and will not come again.
~Old Rhyme
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Yesterday was “ground-hog’s day” in many parts of the United States, and Candlemas day in many other parts of the world. From time immemorial, it has been a critical day in the affairs of the weather. The character of the second of February is really of much more importance than whether the first of March comes in like a lion or a lamb. The simplest form of the adage is:—
If Candlemas day be bright and clear,
There’ll be two winters in that year.
~Hartford Courant, 1877 February 3rd
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If ground-hog day was bright and fair,
The beast came forth, but not to stay;
His shadow turned him to his lair,
Where six weeks more, he dormant lay
Secure in subterranean hold—
So wondrous weatherwise was he—
Against six weeks of ice and cold,
Which, very certain, there would be…
~H.L. Fisher, “Popular Superstitions,” Olden Times: or, Pennsylvania Rural Life, Some Fifty Years Ago, and Other Poems, 1888
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana
Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while. ~Kin Hubbard
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb
Winter is nature’s way of saying, “Up yours.” ~Robert Byrne
Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” ~Robin Williams
One fair day in winter makes not birds merry. ~George Herbert, c.1640
Every mile is two in winter. ~George Herbert
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson
Wish you a very very Happy Groundhog Day from dekh news team.
