Wind Quotes - Page 7

• Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Horse, Love You, Sea

  'Romance son mbulo' (1924-7)

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• I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.

  Tommy Shaw

  Stuck, Guilds

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• It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.

  Klaus Kinski

  Strong, Ocean, Book

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• O the wind is a faun in the spring time
  When the ways are green for the tread of the May!
  List! hark his lay!
  Whist! mark his play!
  T-r-r-r-l!
  Hear how gay!

  Clinton Scollard

  Spring, Gay, Play

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• Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.

  John Owen

  Believe, Blow, Tree

  John Owen (1990). “The Works of John Owen”

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• A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

  George William Russell

  Blow, Men, Civilization

  George William Russell (1920). “The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government”

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• O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, / And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Sweet, Ebb And Flow, Silence

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• Life is a smoke that curls-
  Curls in a flickering skein,
  That winds and whisks and whirls,
  A figment thin and vain,
  Into the vast inane.
  One end for hut and hall.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Curls, Vain

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

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• The winds that never moderation knew,
  Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
  Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge
  Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.

  John Dryden

  Blow, Joy, Too Much

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.7

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• Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.

  John Selden

  Air, May, Way

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.80

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• What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

  John Huston

  Inspiration, Ideas, Waiting

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• Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

  Gary Zukav

  Summer, Lying, Winter

  "Twin Miracles" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.

  Bill McKibben

  Oil, Coal, Burning Fossil Fuels

  "It’s Time for Interfaith Moral Action on Climate Change" by Bill McKibben, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

  William James

  Running, Dream, Inspirational Sports

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• There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.

  Ben Hecht

  Dream, Book, Knights

  "Tell Me the Truth About Love: Memories: 1953-1969". Book by Robert Ayres Carter, Xlibris Corporation, p. 151, 2008.

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• Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Rain, Sun, Secrecy

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.329, Booklassic

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• No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Journey, Decision, Addresses

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.370, 谷月社

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• What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Together, Ants, Sometimes

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• Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs.

  Jim Rohn

  Running, Animal, People

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 13, 2016

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• A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fear, Winter, Snow

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• I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

  Rumi

  Morning, Rose, Green

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• In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.

  Willa Cather

  Love, Sweet, Children

  Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.293, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air.

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

  Stars, Clouds, Air

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Marcia Binder Schmidt, Erik Pema Kunsang (2001). “Vajra Speech”, p.79, Rangjung Yeshe Publications

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• Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds.

  Francis Quarles

  Fire, Rocks, Mind

  Francis Quarles, William Walker Wilkins (1866). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.41

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• Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Gone Love, Land, World

  Gone with theWind pt. 1, ch. 2 (1936)

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