Wind Quotes
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When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.
William Faulkner
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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Is not thy home among the flowers?
William Cullen Bryant
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Fear and pain are only wind. Let it blow past you.
Peter V. Brett
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There had been rain but it had stopped, and the light from a luminously clouded sky was pewter-bright, and puddles on the road were shivering in the wind, and the rooks above the trees in St Anne's Park were being tossed about the air like scraps of charred paper.
John Banville
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Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
William Butler Yeats
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You're all just pissin' in the wind,You don't know it but you are.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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We are suffering with rain, strong wind. The fear is not gone from us. It is very, very hard.
Anuradha Koirala
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Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.
William Shakespeare
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When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .
George Eliot
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Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.
Tommy Cooper
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And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.
Anne Bronte
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My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.
Charles Dickens
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As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.
Gautama Buddha
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People are clocks who think they wind themselves.
Catherynne M. Valente
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You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.
Ernest Gaines
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I think of their anger as a wind. And that wind took them away. From me. And all the others like me.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Let us in, let us in,' shrieked the wind. 'We're very, very hungry.
Cressida Cowell
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Lazy Lob and crazy Cob are weaving webs to wind me. I am far more sweet than other meat, but still they cannot find me! Here am I, naughty little fly; you are fat and lazy. You cannot trap me, though you try, in your cobwebs crazy.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.
Nicole Kidman
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... the expression on her face, which was swept by the excitement of what she saw ... was as luminous and tremulous under it as water in sunlight when it is ruffled by a gust of wind.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.
Vance Palmer