Wind Quotes

Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.

Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.

When the stormy winds of life threaten to knock you down, may you have the courage to spread your wings and fly!

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

While sleeping in a hammock, with the touch of a warm wind we remember why we are in love with the life!

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Planning stuff out sucks. If you plan stuff out, you wind up talking in a very monotonous, unnatural way.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Though I may not flow where the wind guides me, I won’t become still water.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.