Blow Quotes - Page 35

• If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

  Vusi Mahlasela

  Wind, Squash, Words Of Wisdom

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• Nothing is here to stay
  Everything has to begin and end
  A ship in a bottle won't sail
  All we can do is dream that the wind will blow us across the water
  A ship in a bottle set sail

  Dave Matthews

  Dream, Wind, Water

  Song: Baby, Album: Some Devil, 2003

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• O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Sky, Rivers

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, song (added 1850)

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• Yo I'm seventeen, already sniffin blow. I tell my friends its asthmary time I itch my throat, I got a new show for MTV, Pimp My Boat.

  Tyler, The Creator

  Mtv, Pimp, Boat

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• Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

  Karl Shapiro

  Happiness, Laughter, Grief

  Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Karl Jay Shapiro, Henry Rago (1943). “Poetry”

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• To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential position [in life].

  Sven Birkerts

  Self, Focus, Essentials

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• Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Jail, Able

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• The holiest of all holidays are those
  Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
  The secret anniversaries of the heart,
  When the full river of feeling overflows;-
  The happy days unclouded to their close;
  The sudden joys that our of darkness start
  As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart
  Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Holiday, Flames

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.857, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Time, Wind, Fine

  "Song of a Man Who Has Come Through" l. 1 (1920)

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• It always blows me away when I see people freak out because I've changed my mind on something. I'm not an elected official, folks. I didn't get my job by promising a bunch of things. I'm a businessman and a creator. If I don't have the ability to change my mind, if I don't have the ability to be open to different points of view, then I can't do this job properly.

  Joe Quesada

  Jobs, Views, People

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• Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Wind, Mind, Ill

  Malaclypse the Younger, Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (2006). “Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion”, p.23, Ronin Publishing

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• Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars.

  Percival Lowell

  Stars, Sky, Causes

  Lowell Observatory, Percival Lowell (1898). “Annals of the Lowell Observatory”

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• There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze,
  And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees.

  Ogden Nash

  Kindness, Two, People

  "I Have It On Good Authority". "I'm a Stranger Here Myself". Book by Ogden Nash, 1938.

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• What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.

  Ray Davies

  Men, Air, Trying

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• At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

  John Donne

  War, Angel, Law

  John Donne, John Daniel Thieme (2014). “John Donne Holy Sonnets: with an introduction by John Daniel Thieme”, p.23, Vicarage Hill Press

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• I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, Summer, Lying

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 424

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• O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Learning, Winter

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.250, Hayes Barton Press

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• Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.

  Thandie Newton

  Mother, Space, Important

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• Rain falls, wind blows, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away; these phenomena are all interrelated with causes and conditions, are brought about by them, and disappear as the causes and conditions change.

  Gautama Buddha

  Rain, Fall, Wind

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• Is this the real life?
  Is this just fantasy?
  Caught in a landslide,
  No escape from reality.
  
  Open your eyes,
  Look up to the skies and see,
  I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
  Because I'm easy come, easy go,
  Little high, little low,
  Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

  Freddie Mercury

  Song, Real, Eye

  Song: Bohemian Rhapsody

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• As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some warm, still evening, the sweet rain-song of the robin echoes clear, and next day we wake up to a dim morning; soft flecks of cloud bar the sun's way, fleecy vapors steal across the sky, the southwest wind blows lightly, rippling the water into little waves that murmur melodiously as they kiss the shore.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Sweet, Song

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• There was once a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but — whack — his palm came on his head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.

  Aesop

  Summer, Men, Enemy

  "Æsop's fables; with drawings by Fritz Kredel".

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• . . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot be ruled out for tomorrow, it is-beyond being a duty-also fear. Every morning when I get up I can read the Auschwitz number on my forearm, something that touches the deepest and most closely intertwined roots of my existence; indeed I am not even sure if this is not my entire existence. Then I feel approximately as I did back then when I got a taste of the first blow from a policeman's fist. Every day anew I lose my trust in the world.

  Jean Amery

  Morning, Mean, Roots

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• Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn

  William Wordsworth

  Prayer, Sight, Sea

  "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 10 (1807)

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• Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Would Be, Slave

  Frederick Douglass, George L. Ruffin (2001). “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time”, p.415, Digital Scanning Inc

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