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Quotes About Air

Great dark wings were spreading out from the alcove. The air undulated. Kendra felt like she was viewing the basement from far away, through a narrow tunnel. Hugo
~ Brandon Mull
Do you like the new dress", Syl asked, wagging her covered safehand while standing in the air. "Looks strange on you.""I'll have you know, I put a *ton* of thought into it. I spent positively *hours* thinking of just how - Oh! What's that?
~ Brandon Sanderson
Trying to escape media influences in today's culture is as feasible as trying to protect ourselves from air pollution by not breathing.
~ Brene Brown
We need hope like we need air.
~ Brene Brown
On one level, a roomful of men is always a dangerous thing. Competition is usually in the air, so the potential for violence is always nearby.
~ Brennan Manning
There was a Sabbath lull in the air, which, in a settlement unused to Sabbath influences, looked ominous.
~ Bret Harte
The delicious soft, spring-suggesting air,—how it fills my veins with life! Life becomes again credible to me. A certain dormant life awakes in me, and I begin to love nature again.
~ Henry David Thoreau
For I believe that climate does thus react on man--as there is something in the mountain air that feeds the spirit and inspires.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The false society of men— —for earthly greatness All heavenly comforts rarefies to air.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nature, smiling,] seems to say sternly, why came ye here before your time? This ground is not prepared for you. Is it not enough that I smile in the valleys? I have never made this soil for thy feet, this air for thy breathing, these rocks for thy neighbors.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It was the first time, in a manner, that I had known space and air and freedom, all the music of summer and all the mystery of nature.
~ Henry James
The vice in the air, otherwise, was too much like the breath of fate.
~ Henry James
speakers responsible.  And then repetition at sea is somehow not repetition; monotony is in the air, the mind is flat and everything recurs—the bells, the meals, the
~ Henry James
The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.
~ Henry Wadsworth Logfellow
Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hither, and thither, on high, gilded the snow-white wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air; but to and fro in the deeps, far down in the bottomless blue, rushed mighty leviathans, sword-fish, and sharks; and these were the strong, troubled, murderous thinkings of the masculine sea.
~ Herman Melville
I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.
~ Jay Inslee
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.
~ Robert Hass
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.
~ Edward R. Murrow
The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.
~ Virginia Postrel
Air travelers, of course, are famous for their hubris. They carry on too many bags and use the restroom when the seat-belt sign is on.
~ Meghan Daum
We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.
~ Denise Mina