Breeze Quotes - Page 8

• The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Sunshine, Bird

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.

  Johannes Kepler

  Art, Moon, Men

  Johannes Kepler (1965). “Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal messenger”

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• Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

  Roger Waters

  Running, Pain, War

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• We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Littles, Disappear

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• What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.110

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• There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Country, Air, Wind

  Robert Louis Stevenson, June Skinner Sawyers (2002). “Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson”, Neil Wilson Pub Ltd

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• If you're looking for a place to rest Cold Mountain is good for a long stay The breeze blowing through the dark pines Sounds better the closer you come And under the trees a white haired man Mumbles over his Taoist texts Ten years now he hasn't gone home He's even forgotten the road he came by

  Hanshan

  Home, Dark, Men

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• When you live on Cold Mountain long enough the autumns pass quickly When you live alone you have no worries When you leave the doors open no one bothers you The bubbling stream runs forever In the cave a clay pot boils over a fire on the ground A wandering breeze stirs the fragrant pines When hungry I eat one simple meal And lean against the rock in complete harmony

  Hanshan

  Running, Autumn, Simple

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• With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Friendship, Sky, Sun

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• Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Spiders, Steel, Links

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• A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Summer, Flower

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• A new breeze is blowing--and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on: there is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken.

  George H. W. Bush

  Taken, Broken, Action

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• So, just for one more merry day To the great Tree the leaflets clung, Frolicked and danced and had their way, Upon the autumn breezes swung.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Autumn, Tree, Way

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, “How The Leaves Came Down”

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• A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Beautiful, Women, Flower

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• I battered the cordons around me
  And cradled my wings on the breeze,
  Then soared to the uttermost reaches
  With rapture, with power, with ease!

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Wings, Ease, Rapture

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• We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.

  Johan Huizinga

  War, Europe, History

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• We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

  Garrison Keillor

  Husband, Father, Caring

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• The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish;
  Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly;
  So to the brave man every land's a home.

  Ovid

  Lying, Home, Blow

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• When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along with his mighty legions, does he not crave the gods' peace with vows and in his panic seek with prayers the peace of the winds and favouring breezes. Nonetheless, he is caught up in the furious hurricane and driven upon the shoals of death.

  Lucretius

  Prayer, Wind, Sea

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• All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.

  Laurie Anderson

  Talking, Tree, Together

  RoseLee Goldberg, Laurie Anderson (2000). “Laurie Anderson”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.

  Walter Scott

  Summer, Morning, Swans

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.309

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• Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Night, Men

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

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• It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.

  Ally Carter

  Feet, Stories, Shooting

  Ally Carter (2012). “Heist Society: Uncommon Criminals”, p.131, Hachette UK

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• Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Two, Track

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• I step back further, until I feel cold tiles against my back. It is then I get the glimmer that I associate with memory. As my mind tries to settle on it, it flutters away, like ashes caught in a breeze, and I realize that in my life there is a then, a before, though before what I cannot say, and there is a now, and there is nothing between the two but a long, silent emptiness that has led me here, to me and him, in this house.

  S.J. Watson

  Memories, Two, Long

  S. J. Watson (2011). “Before I Go To Sleep: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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