The Wind Quotes

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon

Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.

Beware of spitting against the wind!

Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.

After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.

I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.

The spirit of the woods is like an old good friend, makes me feel warm and good inside. I knew his name and it was good to see him again, cause in the wind he's still alive.

I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.

I hear the howl of the wind that brings The long drear storm on its heavy wings.

Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.

The wind is blowing. Adore the wind.

It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.

Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.

I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Nocht is your fairnes bot ane faiding flour, Nocht is your famous laud and hie honour Bot wind inflat in uther mennis eiris.

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails

Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons.

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.

As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.

That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.

If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.

Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.

... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.

Indoors or out, no one relaxes In March, that month of wind and taxes, The wind will presently disappear, The taxes last us all the year.

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.

The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.