Windy Quotes - Page 4

• In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Rain, Wind, Soul

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “Uniformity with God's Will”, p.9, TAN Books

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• It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.

  Daniel Handler

  Mountain, Valleys, World

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• And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Facts, Walks, Relish

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• Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more -- every thing presses on -- whilst thou are twisting that lock, -- see! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!

  Laurence Sterne

  Kissing, Clouds, Light

  Laurence Sterne (1830). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: In One Volume, with a Life of the Author”, p.257

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• What's most troubling is the open water swim. It's windy, the waves are getting in your face and the water is a bit dirty. And there's silly things like you can't touch the bottom if you swallow a mouthful of water.

  Greg James

  Dirty, Silly, Water

  "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, in.askmen.com.

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• A weathered skeleton
  in windy fields of memory,
  piercing like a knife.

  Matsuo Basho

  Memories, Skeletons, Knives

  Matsuo Basho, “A Weathered Skeleton”

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• Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.

  Sid Fleischman

  Wall, Reality, Sky

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• You have to beat out for yourself many mornings on the windy headlands the sense of the fact that you get the same rainbow in the cloud drift over Waban and the spray of your garden hose. And not necessarily then do you live up to it.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Morning, Garden, Clouds

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the country of Lost borders”, Rutgers Univ Pr

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• The windy satisfaction of the tongue.

  Homer

  Tongue, Satisfaction

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.352

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• I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold.

  Amy Poehler

  Thinking, Years, Chicago

  "Amy Poehler: Playing Politics, But Only On Television". NPR Interview, www.npr.org. October 20, 2011.

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• a windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton.

  Julia Peterkin

  Dust, Lucky, Cotton

  Julia Mood Peterkin (1927). “Black April: A Novel”, p.259, University of Georgia Press

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• The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Blow, Puff, Development

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, Clyde Kenneth Hyder (1966). “Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle”, p.72, Syracuse University Press

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• The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of sabbaths.

  Wendell Berry

  Sunday, Dancing, Cedars

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• I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off!

  Guy Maddin

  Autumn, Winter, Long

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• It may seem like I came out of the blue. But, my road was long, windy, full of hurdles, and even some dead ends. I lost family. I lost friends. I even lost my way. When I reached what felt like rock bottom, I realized I had a responsibility to everyone who believed in me and to kids, like me, who just needed a chance and something to believe in.

  Victor Cruz

  Believe, Kids, Responsibility

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• The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)

  Willa Cather

  Two Friends, Silence, Pioneers

  Willa Cather (2009). “O Pioneers!: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.

  Tony Bennett

  Travel, Morning, Stars

  Song: (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco, 1962

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• It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.

  Samuel Johnson

  Weather, Two, Haste

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.182

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• Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.

  William Shakespeare

  Matter, Waste, Argument

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• I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

  John Masefield

  Sunset, Dawn, Spain

  John Masefield (1925). “Poems by John Masefield”

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• How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

  Lin Yutang

  Summer, Country, Wall

  Lin Yutang (2013). “Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living”, p.74, Read Books Ltd

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• The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Tadpoles, Frogs, Poet

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, Clyde Kenneth Hyder (1966). “Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle”, p.72, Syracuse University Press

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

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Badass, Wind

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

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• When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

  Samuel Johnson

  Weather, Two, Firsts

  "The Idler" by Samuel Johnson, No. 11, June 24, 1758.

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• Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.

  Bob Dylan

  Time, Mind, Ruins

  'Mr Tambourine Man' (1964 song)

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