Wind Quotes
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That hole in particular is really hard to judge with the wind there sometimes
Cristie Kerr
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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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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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I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng
Ernest Dowson
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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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What I really meant to write to you about today was to tell you that I read your learned and technical and I am sure admirable denouncements of Walt Whitman with a respectful attention due to so much earnestness; and when I had done, and wondered awhile pleasantly at the amount of time for letter-writing the Foreign Office allows its young men, I stretched myself, and got my hat, and went down to the river; and I sat at the water's edge in the middle of a great many buttercups; and there was a little wind; and the little wind knocked the heads of the buttercups together; and it seemed to amuse them, or else something else did, for I do assure you I thought I heard them laugh.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.
Nicholas Sparks
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We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds.
Nikolas "Nik" Wallenda
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I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.
Matthew Sweet
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A great wind is blowing and that either gives you imagination...or a headache.
Catherine the Great
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How could anyone not want to live when there were so many things to live for? There were rainy nights and wind and the slap of the sea and the moon. There were books to read and pictures to paint and music.
Michelle Magorian
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A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.
Thomas Gold Appleton
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I know a tree feels it when the wind blows through it. It probably goes, 'Chhhhhh, this is wonderful.' And that's how I feel when I'm singing some songs. It's wonderful.
Michael Jackson
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The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
Thomas More
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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Homer
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I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took to the air, and the first thing I knew, I was flying.
Arthur P. Warner
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He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
Ray Bradbury
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If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
Gautama Buddha
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See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.
Ezra Pound
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One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
Gautama Buddha
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You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.
Haruki Murakami
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To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
Seneca the Younger
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If we do not learn to eliminate waste and to be more productive and more efficient in the ways we use energy, then we will fall short of this goal for the Nation to derive 20 percent of all the energy we use from the Sun, by 2000. But if we use our technological imagination, if we can work together to harness the light of the Sun, the power of the wind, and the strength of rushing streams, then we will succeed.
Jimmy Carter