Quotes About Winds
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
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Let there be spaces in your togetherness: And let the winds of the heavens dance between you . . . stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow. In
~ John Gray
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Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
~ Vin Scully
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In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss. And the poem is one of its consolation prizes. One of the qualities of the winds, north or south
~ Mahmoud Darwish
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But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began: The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, Whispering new joys to the mild Ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
~ John Milton
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Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.
~ Ray Bradbury
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It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
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Let the winds come from the sea and blow seeds about, seeds of the north, south, east, and west. Let the moths beat their wings against the windows and the fishermen cast curious glances. Let them come, let them return, let them reach.
~ Unknown
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When the winds of March are wakening the crocuses and crickets, Did you ever find a fairy near some budding little thickets,... And when she sees you creeping up to get a closer peek She tumbles through the daffodils, a playing hide and seek.
~ Unknown
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We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
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I stand upon the downs of life, And watch two barks of Fate sail in; The waves and winds are all at strife, I sadly wonder who will win.
~ Unknown
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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Lord of the seven winds, what a smile! He could pull down the walls of a city with that smile. And I, like that walls of puerta de Tierra, could feel myself crumbling under its dazzling sparkle.
~ Unknown
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A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.
~ Meriwether Lewis
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We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.
~ Unknown
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Winds blew, evil winds, winds that pissed on the citizens, piss disguised as rain.
~ Unknown
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Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
~ Ovid
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I arise from dreams of theeIn the first sweet sleep of night,When the winds are breathing low,And the stars are shining bright.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
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And I have fitted up some chambers there Looking towards the golden Eastern air, And level with the living winds, which flow Like waves above the living waves below.— I have sent books and music there, and all Those instruments with which high spirits call The future from its cradle, and the past Out of its grave, and make the present last In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, Folded within their own eternity.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
~ Job 37:9
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He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.
~ Psalm 104:4
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He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.
~ Psalm 147:18
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