Wind Quotes - Page 34

• Solar Power Seen Meeting 20% of Needs by 2000; Carter May Seek Outlay Boost

  Walt Mossberg

  Energy, Needs, May

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• By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.

  Denis Hayes

  Years, Humanity, Energy

  Denis Hayes (1977). “Energy: The Solar Prospect”, Worldwatch Inst

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• To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work...how about...just giving them the service where they need it-on the roof of their hut.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Running, Giving, House

  "Eco-celebrity tries reality TV show". Interview with Sarah van Schagen, www.nbcnews.com. January 4, 2007.

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• ...Denmark should be a green and sustainable society with a visionary climate and energy policy...The answer to these challenges lies in the way we produce and consume energy and in our ability to adapt our society to climate change.

  Connie Hedegaard

  Lying, Challenges, Energy

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• The wind and the sun are free.

  Al Gore

  Energy, Sun, Environment

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• Everything will be solar in 30 years.

  Ralph Nader

  Years, Energy, Environment

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• The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030. We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it...Families will have to get used to only using power when it was available, rather than constantly.

  Steve Holliday

  Thinking, Energy, Different

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• Some technologies don't pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. ... I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Technology, Promise

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, People, Buffalo

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• But these are flowers that fly and all but sing:
  And now from having ridden out desire
  They lie closed over in the wind and cling
  Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

  Robert Frost

  Lying, Flower, Butterfly

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• It was always a thrill for me, getting out of the cocoon and wandering. I'd let the wind wrap around me like fire and slip into the unknown with a moment's hesitation.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Fire, Thrill

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• He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.

  James I. Robertson, Jr.

  Strong, Horse, War

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• Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

  Grantland Rice

  Life, Night, Journey

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• You're my bread when I'm hungry
  You're my shelter from troubled winds
  You're my anchor in life's ocean
  Most of all
  You're my best friend

  Don Williams

  Country, Song, Ocean

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• That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

  Lydia M. Child

  Song, Nature, Men

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 38, 1843.

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• I like to start off my day with a glass of champagne...I like to wind it up with a glass of champagne, too. To be frank, I also like a glass or two in between. It may not be the universal medicine for every disease, as my friends in Reims and Epernay so often tell me, but it does you less harm than any other liquid.

  Fernand Point

  Wine, Glasses, Two

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• For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Father, Feet, Air

  Michel de Montaigne (1965). “Complete Essays”, p.334, Stanford University Press

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• Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.

  Khalil Gibran

  Clothes, Body, May

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Good Night, Song, Long

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.160

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• Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

  Khalil Gibran

  Silence, Littles, Return

  Khalil Gibran, “The Farewell XXVIIi”

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• What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute I die, that picture will start to yellow and fade and eventually be gone. Blown in the wind and become part of the molecular structure of something else. These things we see as "success," they're non-accomplishments.

  William Shatner

  Success, Wall, Yellow

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• Now is the time to be bold. It is easy when the wind is at your back. But the real test is now when the wind is in our face. That's when we find out if we are tough enough. Inspired enough, committed enough.

  Karl Rove

  Motivational, Success, Real

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• Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Animal, Doe

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• We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Car, Fuel

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

  Julia Gillard

  Transition, Politics, Abundance

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