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Quotes About Wind

Relaxing me from head to feet Love masters me, the bitter sweet O'er thy limbs breathing; Yea, Eros now, the god born blind Sweeps my soul like the mountain wind Through the oaks seething.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
A wind with a wolf's head Howled about our door, And we burned up the chairs And sat upon the floor.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
And the wind blows, the dust clouds darken the desert blue, pale sand and red dust drift across the asphalt trails and tumbleweeds fill the arroyos. Good-bye, come again. (p. 34)
~ Edward Abbey
Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind—what else is there? What else do we need?
~ Edward Abbey
Lavender clouds sail like a fleet of ships across the pale green dawn; each cloud, planed flat on the wind, has a base of fiery gold.
~ Edward Abbey
High above our heads the owl hoots under the lost moon. A pre-dawn wind comes sifting and sighing through the cottonwood trees; the sound of their dry, papery leaves is like the murmur of distant water, or like the whispering of ghosts in an ancient, empty, condemned cathedral.
~ Edward Abbey
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
~ Anonymous
Fair weather cometh out of the north.
~ Anonymous
Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one-mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas.
~ Anonymous
Spring is not the best of seasons. Cold and flu are two good reasons; wind and rain and other sorrow, warm today and cold tomorrow.
~ Anonymous
He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
~ Anonymous
Suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind.
~ Anonymous
Wind over lake: the image of Inner Truth.
~ Anonymous
Down in the valley, the valley so low,Hang your head over, hear the wind blow.
~ Anonymous
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
~ Anonymous
For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind… and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.
~ Anonymous
Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
~ Anonymous
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
~ Anonymous
Wind chimes in your yard will serenade garden creatures — squirrels, fairies and angels.
~ Anonymous
Disappear in the wind.. reappear when in need... -Caleb Alan Hall
~ Anonymous
Mony a one for him maks mane,But nane sall ken where he is gane:O'er his white banes, when they are bare,The wind sall blaw for evermair.
~ Anonymous: Ballads
The north wind doth blow,And we shall have snow,And what will poor robin do then,Poor thing? He'll sit in a barn,To keep himself warm,And hide his head under his wing,Poor thing!
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes