Wind Quotes

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.

Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.

How many Sundays - how many hundreds of Sundays like this - lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful, and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays, I didn't wind my spring.

let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.

The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death.

Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

A slight wind shakes the seed-pods my thoughts are spent as the black seeds.

The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.

When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?

I don't believe it is in the state's interest to industrialize our ridge lines.

Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash.

He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.

Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

I have no past--the steps have disappeared the wind has blown them away.

Just for fun I flew in huge banking arcs, taking deep breaths, enjoying the feel of my newly weightless hair. The stylist had called it “wind tossed.” If only she knew.

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I could hear the icy winds of Sweden, but he didn't seem to feel the chill.

When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.

The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.

It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.

When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of creation) is true and all others are not.

Between my mom and dad, I would hear a lot of Earth, Wind, and Fire. My mom loved Chaka Khan, so that was on in the car a lot.

John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

These aren't like logging roads to get those blades in there. They're greater than 40 feet in width, almost like a superhighway.

"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision only when they have a dream that drives them on.

The wind always brings us back to the same wall

I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves in a hospital bed.

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.