Wind Quotes

he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean

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.

How silent are the winds!

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.

Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

I do wear wigs. ... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind - and me too proud to run after it.

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.

This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wind at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.

Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth - Man, I love to run!

We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some Power, or a great Power, it is all power.

Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.

The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]

If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.

Words and feathers the wind carries away.

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

My stories, I can understand them as a little toy that you wind up and you put it on the floor and it just goes under the coach. That I get. Beyond that, I'm a little lost.

And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is buring?

Tiers of mountains Cold wind feet Not need fan Ice cold through Moon shines bright Mist covers everything Sit all alone One old man

The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.

The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.

Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.

The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.

Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.

It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again.

Homosexuality is the sexual plague of a monogamous society gone promiscuous. These societies that sow the winds of heterosexual freedom ironically reap the whirlwind of homosexual perversion.

Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.

Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.

Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.

I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.

Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

I wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what I was doing. The lines seem pulled on either end, tight and taut against the wind.

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

It's such a huge playing field, especially with the wind and shifting tides and only three women out. It's almost like you are fending for yourself out there.

Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.

To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.

Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!

The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!

Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds.

When the thick layers of dark clouds occupy the sky, if there is no wind at all to sweep them away, start blowing with courage and belief

When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!