Wind Quotes

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

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.

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.

The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

Life is a smoke that curls- Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the vast inane. One end for hut and hall.

I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies!

The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines. Long night clear evening--what are they for?

No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person.

Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.

Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to smell the air, and feel the wind in your face

Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

I dwell no more in Arcady, But when the sky is blue with May, And birds are blithe and winds are free, I know what message is for me, For I have been in Arcady.

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.

Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.

I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.

Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?

We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.

If I don't take the risk, I'll wind up with a bloodless poem. I have to be out there on the edge.

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore.

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.

That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe. That to which he devotes energy, he finally has.

And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate.

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

When I breathe, This sound in my chest Lonelier than the winter wind

If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

All we are is dust in the wind, dude.