Breeze Quotes - Page 4

• Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that the delightful influences which the green leaves, the blue sky, the moonbeams and clouds of the evening diffuse over the universe, may in their powers of soul-healing, visit your day visions, is my desire and hope.

  Humphry Davy

  Beautiful, Nature, Morning

  Sir Humphry Davy (1858). “Fragmentary remains, literary and scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, bart., late president of the Royal society, etc: with a sketch of his life and selections from his correspondence”, p.64

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• Fairs are good places to eat, particularly for stand-up eaters--which is one of the kinds of eaters I am, although when I eat standing up away from home I sometimes miss the familiar cool breeze coming from the open refrigerator.

  Calvin Trillin

  Home, Missing, Kind

  Calvin Trillin (1974). “American fried; adventures of a happy eater”

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• How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Jewels, Ruffles, Steel

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.

  Catullus

  Sweet, Spring, Sky

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• Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breeze blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place.

  Anna Bartlett Warner

  Flower, White, Snow

  Anna Bartlett Warner (1872). “Gardening by Myself”, p.38

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• Before falling to the scythe the weeds enjoy a little breeze.

  Peter Levitt

  Weed, Fall, Littles

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• He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

  Livy

  Adversity, Men, Prosperity

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XLV, section 8,

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• The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Eye, Dark

  1837 'At Bologna, In Remembrance of the Late Insurrections: Continued', l.12-14 (published 1842).

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• Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

  Richard Whately

  Women, Reeds, Tempest

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.309

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• The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set forth in Pindar's second Olympian: after three or six lives in which a man has lived with strict justice and perfect integrity, he passes beyond the tower of Cronus to the fair realm that cannot be reached by land or sea, where gentle breezes from a placid ocean blow forever on the fields of asphodel. For a description, see Pindar. If the beauty of great poetry can commend a religion, here you have it.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Beautiful, Christian, Integrity

  "Afterthoughts on Afterlife". "Instauration" Magazine, August 1980.

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• Lady love, your love is peaceful like the summers breeze.

  Lou Rawls

  Romantic, Summer, Love You

  Song: Lady Love

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• The thing that attracted me to my husband was his pride. I'll never forget the first time I saw him, standing up on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze - and he too proud to run and get it.

  Jean Carroll

  Running, Husband, Pride

  "Milton Berle, With Charm and a Mink" by Jane Wollman Rusoff, www.nytimes.com. November 5, 2006.

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• I would prefer to keep my clothes on. Unless there's a brisk breeze or something, I tend to keep them on.

  Allison Williams

  Clothes

  "Newsflash: Allison Williams Has Arrived". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. April 12, 2012.

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• You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Ham, Idiot, Dilemma

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.240, Macmillan

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• And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.

  Anne Bronte

  Air, Wind, Sea

  Anne Bronte (1859). “Agnes Grey”, p.194, Library of Alexandria

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• I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Sleep, Butterfly

  William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill (2000). “The Major Works”, p.254, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Acorns, Birth, Unnoticed

  1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

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• The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves on the immature trees; a spiteful, chill wind that sought out your weakest places, the nape of your neck and your knees, and which denied you the comfort of dreaming, of retreating a little from reality.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Reality, Wind

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• But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?

  Alan Lightman

  Past, Laughing, Patterns

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.102, Vintage

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• Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever caused his heart to settle with his Lord shall be in a state, calm and tranquility, and whosoever sent it amongst the people shall be disturbed and excessively perturbed.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• Birds flying high you know how I feel
  Sun in the sky you know how I feel
  Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel
  And this old world is a new world
  And a bold world
  For me
  And I'm feeling good
  I'm feeling good

  Nina Simone

  Inspirational, Flying High, Sky

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• Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

  Stephen King

  Tree, Backyards, October

  Stephen King (2014). “Big Driver”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• A chilly breeze that seemed to emanate from the heart of the forest lifted the hair at Harry's brow. He knew that they would not tell him to go, that it would have to be his decision. "You'll stay with me?" "Until the very end," said James.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Hair, Decision

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• Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

  Samuel Johnson

  Money, Tree, Merit

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.468, Canongate Books

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• Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.

  Robert Jordan

  Love You, Love Is, Thinking

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