Wind Quotes - Page 38

• Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Farewell, Moon, Journey

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.

  Deb Caletti

  Powerful, Lying, Long

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• (P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

  Gayle Forman

  Coffins, Good Intentions, Boxes

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.92, Penguin

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• You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.

  John Green

  Distance, Kids, Alive

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• Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles!

  Robert Bolt

  Anchors, Fishing, Weather

  Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.43, A&C Black

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• Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

  John Green

  Good Life, Hands, Grace

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.153, Penguin UK

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• True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call again but you still don’t come, and they call you by all your names together, and then, of course, you have to come, and right quick. Because true names have power, like Lye said. But I never told anyone my true name. The Green Wind told me not to. I didn’t understand what he meant, but I do now.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Names, Parent, Together

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.223, Macmillan

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• One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But you are safe now, and for awhile yet, and why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sleep, Kissing, Worry

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.273, Macmillan

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• The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing. Jack stood very still. The colossal head turned, the scaled lip only three feet from Jack. The golden eyes gazed at him, wirling with fiery color. Jack breathed in tiny, shallow breaths. Dont blink. Don't blink... Two gusts of wind erutped from the wyvern's nostrils Jack jumped straight up, bounced off the ground into another jump, and scrambled up the nearest tree. In the clearing, Gaston bent over, guffawing like an idiot. 'It's not funny!

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Dark, Color

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• Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning.

  Cesare Pavese

  Sweet, Morning, Stars

  Cesare Pavese, “In The Morning You Always Come Back”

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• And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Past, Reality, Cells

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• 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.

  Haruki Murakami

  Rain, Smell, Age

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.307, Random House

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• Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Children, Couple, Moving

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• Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Moving, Sky

  Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.13, BookBaby

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• Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.

  William Wordsworth

  Autumn, Woods, Fall Season

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• My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Courage, Venture, Faces

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 165), 1895.

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• So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment. We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Attitude, Differences, Contentment

  "Living the Abundant Life" by Thomas S. Monson, www.lds.org. January 2012.

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• I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what they feel like are limitations. If they push against these limitations, will they wind up in the realm of chaos, or will they push against limitations and wind up in the world of freedom?

  Philip Roth

  People, World, Chaos

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Feb 20, 2012

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• There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look; morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Mean, Night

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• She's like a wind-up monkey that winds itself.

  Tammara Webber

  Monkeys

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.35, Tammara Webber

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• Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Light, Years, Tree

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3236, Simon and Schuster

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• Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fall, Autumn, Land

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wings, Madness, Felt

  "Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal".

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• Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Lying, Heart

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree branch again and the wind to become just the wind, then a boy, most of all, needed some time to be only a boy.

  Deb Caletti

  Boys, Tree, Branches

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