Quotes and Sayings About Wind

Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.
-- A. E. Coppard

#Loneliness #Home #Wind

There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.
-- A. E. Housman

#Change #Men #Wind

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
-- A. E. Housman

#Wind #Snow #Plies

'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And there's the windflower chilly With all the winds at play, And there's the Lenten lily That has not long to stay And dies on Easter day.
-- A. E. Housman

#Easter #Spring #Wind

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.
-- A. S. J. Tessimond

#Cat #Wind #Shadow

Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
-- A.S.A. Harrison

#Autumn #Wind #Long

It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Wind #Government #Trying

When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Horse #Wind #Want

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Wind #Curls #World

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
-- Adam Clarke

#Air #Wind #Would Be

Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly... Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!
-- Adelaide Crapsey

#Land #Wind #Sea

The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?
-- Adelaide Crapsey

#Wind #Tree #Chaos

... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Philosophy #Past #Wind

For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.
-- Aeschylus

#Heart #Blow #Wind

Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.
-- Aesop

#Blow #Wind #Looks

Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I wasn't bored one bit. I didn't really get to hear so much about Nana. But I knew I would have loved... To hear what Nana had to say about herself. - Nana Komatsu
-- Ai Yazawa

#Wind #Snow #Bored

A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these?
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna

#Fire #Wind #Space

Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.
-- Al Berto

#Blow #Wind #Hearing

Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.
-- Al Gore

#Wind #Forever #Energy

I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!
-- Alan Green

#Wind #Arctic

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Song #Wind #Contemplating

I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.
-- Albert Camus

#Beach #Wind #Waiting

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
-- Albert Camus

#Wind #Police #Revolution

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
-- Albert Einstein

#Spiritual #Self #Wind

I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.
-- Alda Merini

#Wind #Used #Determine

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!
-- Aldo Leopold

#Hunting #Wind #Fishing

The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on.... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Fall #Wind #Tree

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...
-- Aldous Huxley

#Believe #Writing #Wind

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
-- Alec Baldwin

#Wind #Idiot #Language

I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.
-- Alex Ferguson

#Inspirational #Wind #Pieces