Wind Quotes - Page 4

• The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

  Don Van Vliet

  Sound, Difficult

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• Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

  William Butler Yeats

  Dance, Angel, Flames

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.102, Penguin

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• 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.

  John Muir

  Stars, Eye, Clouds

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, Canongate Books

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

  John Masefield

  Bird, West, Cry

  John Masefield (1913). “Salt-water Ballads”

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• Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.

  Amy Carmichael

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.30, CLC Publications

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• Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Song, Cheer, Winter

  William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Grenville Mellen, United States. Literary Gazette (1826). “Miscellaneous poems selected from the United States Literary Gazette”, p.113

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• The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

  Charles Dickens

  East, Now And Then, Conscious

  'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 6 (Mr Jarndyce)

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• If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind

  Jamie O'Neill

  Character, Weather, Determined

  Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

  Emma Goldman

  World, Foolish, Enough

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• Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods, and exemplary like the emperors Shun and Yao. A scarlet rain of peach blossoms turned into waves and emerald mountains into bridges. Summits touch the sky. We dig with silver shovels and iron arms shake the earth and the Three Rivers. God of plagues, where are you going? We burn paper boats and bright candles to light his way to heaven.

  Mao Zedong

  Spring, Rain, Land

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.

  George Herbert

  Fire, Kindles

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.315

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• When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Character, Blow, Wind Blowing

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• O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Autumn, Unseen, Fleeing

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 1

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• Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heart, Self, Examination

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

  William C. Bryant

  Wings, Long, Storm

  William Cullen Bryant, “Rizpah”

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• 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

  Jean Alesi

  Bridges, Giving, Car

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Badass, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

  John Millington Synge

  Islands, Enough, General Knowledge

  John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.26, Northwestern University Press

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

  Sterling Hayden

  Inspirational, Funny, Sea

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.80, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

  John Quincy Adams

  Learning, Broken, Storm

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• The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Rain, Mad, Deaf And Blind

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe: Stories & Poems”, p.184, Rockport Pub

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• Up and away for life! be fleet!-
  The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
  Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
  Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
  Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
  And hems in life with narrowing fence.
  Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-
  The punctual stars will vigil keep,-
  Embalmed by purifying cold;
  The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
  The snow is no ignoble shroud,
  The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Kings, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

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• What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

  E. M. Forster

  Stars, Tree, Sunrise

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.129, Xist Publishing

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• If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Fire, Alive

  Michelangelo (2000). “The Complete Poems of Michelangelo”, p.34, University of Chicago Press

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