The Wind Quotes

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.

He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.

Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.

For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.

I turned my head and saw the wind, Not far from where I stood, Dragging the corn by her golden hair, Into a dark and lonely wood.

Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!

Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation.

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.

A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these?

Into this universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as wind along the wate, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.

A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

Sun on my shoulders and the wind at my back, bound and determined to get back on track to where the heart is..where it's been all along.

By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.

The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain.

But you, you’ve always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.

If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.

When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.

“If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.”

The wind is old, but it keeps blowing.

Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.

All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.

And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.

One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.

You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

America is number one in wind power.

It always amazes me how when we’re sure we’ve lost something for good, it winds up finding us.

Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.

But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.

Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.