White Clouds Quotes:

The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky...

- Jandy Nelson

topic: Eye, Clouds, Blue, White Clouds

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Storms Of Life, Sound Of Rain

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

- Mike Tyson

topic: Dream, Inspirational Sports, Stars, Handful, Reaching For The Stars

I bow in reverence to the white cloud.

- Li Bai

topic: Nature, Clouds, White, White Clouds

When people look for the road in the clouds The cloud road disappears The mountains are tall and steep The streams are wide and still Green mountains ahead and behind White clouds to east and west If you want to find the cloud road Seek it within

- Hanshan

topic: Clouds, White, People, White Clouds, East And West

Ye winds ye unseen currents of the air, Softly ye played a few brief hours ago; Ye bore the murmuring bee; ye tossed the air O'er maiden cheeks, that took a fresher glow; Ye rolled the round white cloud through depths of blue; Ye shook from shaded flowers the lingering dew; Before you the catalpa's blossoms flew, Light blossoms, dropping on the grass like snow.

- William C. Bryant

topic: Flower, Clouds, Light, White Clouds, Murmuring

It was a beautiful, harmonious, peaceful-looking planet, blue with white clouds, and one that gave you a deep sense of home, of being, of identity. It is what I prefer to call instant global consciousness.

- Edgar Mitchell

topic: Beautiful, Home, White, White Clouds

When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly through the clean air, watching the earth below.

- Eddie Rickenbacker

topic: White Clouds, Clean Air

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Motivational, Buddhist, Children, Buddhist Monk, Spiritual Vision

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

- Tecumseh

topic: Song, Hero, Home, Indian Tribes, Meaningful Death

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

- Lord Byron

source: Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.809, Delphi Classics

topic: Love, Smile, Romantic, Storms Of Life, Storm Clouds

[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

- Crowfoot

source: "Aging in the Modern World: Selections from the Literature of Aging for Pleasure and Instruction". Book by ‎Clark Tibbitts, p. 222, 1957.

topic: Sunset, Native American, Firefly, Indian Tribes, Spiritual Indian

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

- Crowfoot

topic: Life, Running, Nature, Indian Tribes, Indian Wisdom

Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?

- Jack Kerouac

source: Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.20, Penguin

topic: Clouds, White, Ties, White Clouds, Dharma Bums

Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.

- Robert Bridges

source: Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

topic: Spring, Light, White, Goeth, White Clouds

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

- Michael Pollan

source: Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Clouds, White, Bird, White Clouds

Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.

- William Allingham

source: 'A Memory'

topic: Spring, Blue, Years, White Clouds

He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle.

- Elmer Kelton

source: Elmer Kelton (2016). “The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country: Two Classic Westerns”, p.169, Forge Books

topic: Music, Running, Lying, White Clouds, Personal Preferences

It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-spangled gossamer threads hung on the bushes and the shrill little cries of unrest of the swallows skimming the green open park spaces of the park told of autumn and change.

- Flora Thompson

topic: Morning, Sunshine, Autumn, Skimming, White Clouds

I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.

- Williston Fish

topic: Children, Dragons, Play, Dandelions, Thistles

My effort here is to create bliss, not happiness. Happiness is worthless; it depends on unhappiness. Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond the duality of being happy and unhappy. One watches both; happiness comes, one watches and does not become identified with it. One does not say, 'I am happy. Peace, it is wonderful.' One simply watches, one says, 'Yes, a white cloud passing.'

- Rajneesh

topic: Happiness, Moving, White, White Clouds

Bianca Nazario stands at the end of the world. The firmament above is as blue as the summer skies of her childhood, mirrored in the waters of la caldera; but where the skies she remembers were bounded by mountains, here on Sky there is no horizon, only a line of white cloud.

- David Moles

topic: Summer, Sky, White, White Clouds

When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps.

- Ice Cube

source: Interview (2003), as quoted in "Black History Month: What I've Learned", www.esquire.com. February 1, 2012.

topic: Men, Clouds, White Man, White Clouds

Tier on tier of beautiful mountains and streams Blue green vistas locked in white clouds The mist makes my bandana wet Dew coats my grass cape My feet climb in straw sandals My hand holds an old wooden stick When I gaze down again on the dusty world It has become a land of phantoms and dreams to me

- Hanshan

topic: Beautiful, Dream, Clouds, White Clouds, Sandals

Climb the steep Cold Mountain way Roads to Cold Mountain are many and never ending The valleys are long and deep, the peaks piled high The streams are wide, the grass is thick The moss is slippery though there is no rain The pines sigh though there is no wind Who can escape the snares of the world And come to sit with me among the white clouds?

- Hanshan

topic: Rain, Clouds, Wind, Snares, White Clouds

I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.

- Robert Frost

source: Robert Frost, “The Sound Of The Trees”

topic: Clouds, Voice, White, White Clouds

It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Spring, Men, White, Spring Day, Light Blue

The fields are snowbound no longer; There are little blue lakes and flags of tenderest green. The snow has been caught up into the sky- So many white clouds-and the blue of the sky is cold. Now the sun walks in the forest, He touches the bows and stems with his golden fingers; They shiver, and wake from slumber. Over the barren branches he shakes his yellow curls. Yet is the forest full of the sound of tears.... A wind dances over the fields. Shrill and clear the sound of her waking laughter, Yet the little blue lakes tremble And the flags of tenderest green bend and quiver.

- Katherine Mansfield

topic: Laughter, Spring, Blue, Spring Poems, White Clouds

As for me, I delight in the every day Way Among mist-wrapped vines and rocky caves Here in the wilderness I am completely free With my friends, the white clouds, idling forever There are roads, but they do not reach the world Since I am mindless, who can rouse my thoughts On a bed of stone I sit, alone in the night While a round moon climbs up Cold Mountain

- Hanshan

topic: Moon, Night, Clouds, White Clouds, Cold Mountain

Today I sat before the cliff Until the mist and rainbows disappeared I followed the emerald stream Explored a thousand tiers of green cliffs In the morning my spirit rests among white clouds At night a bright moon floats in the sky I am free of the busy world There is not a doubt in my heart or a worry to disturb my mind

- Hanshan

topic: Morning, Heart, Moon, White Clouds

I settled at Cold Mountain long ago Already it seems like ages Wandering free I roam the woods and streams Lingering to watch things be themselves Men don't come this far into the mountains Where white clouds gather and billow Dry grass makes a comfortable mattress The blue sky is a fine quilt Happy to pillow my head on the rock I leave heaven and earth to endless change

- Hanshan

topic: Lingering, White Clouds, Mattresses, Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain is hidden in white clouds It's peaceful to be cut off from the busy world I use dry grass for cushions in my mountain home My only light is the round moon My bed is the rock beside the green pool Tigers and deer are my companions I delight in this happy peaceful life Forever beyond the world of men

- Hanshan

topic: Home, Cutting, Men, White Clouds, Peaceful Life

Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass. The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain The pine sings, but there's no wind. Who can leap the world's ties And sit with me among the white clouds?

- Gary Snyder

topic: Rain, Clouds, Wind, White Clouds, Cold Mountain

Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

- Stephen Spender

topic: Heart, Air, Wind, White Clouds

It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released a bag of M&Ms in the cockpit. It was amazing . . . Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground.

- Mike Melvill

topic: White, Space, Clouds, Cockpit, Awesome Things