The Wind Quotes

Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.

A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.

Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

It's easy to die. Just give your breath back to the trees and the wind.

And the leaves were telling secrets to the wind.

The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.

Oklahoma Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.

Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.

A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger.

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

At my age I'm envious of a stiff wind.

Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.

And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.

When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B. Once you were beautiful.

The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind.

The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.

I kind of like the wind in my face. If it wasn’t there, I don’t know if I would push as hard.

It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.

It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails.

Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.

I’d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air

To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can.

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains, Draughts of life to me.

You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.

The wind and the sun are free.

Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!