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Quotes About Wind

All day they hunted,And nothing did they find,But a ship a-sailing,A-sailing with the wind.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
o vento de navalhinhas do inverno a barbear a bruma,...
~ António Lobo Antunes
But over these past few weeks, her existence has become tolerable. At least, out on the beaches, her privation and fear are rinsed away by wind and color and light. Most
~ Anthony Doerr
The moonlight shines and billows; the broken clouds scud above the trees. Leaves fly everywhere. But the moonlight stays unmoved by the wind, passing through clouds, through air, in what seems to Werner like impossibly slow imperturbable rays. They hang across the buckling grass. Why doesn't the wind move the light?
~ Anthony Doerr
But the moonlight stays unmoved by the wind, passing through clouds, through air, in what seems to Werner like impossibly slow, imperturbable rays. They hang across the buckling grass. Why doesn't the wind move the light?
~ Anthony Doerr
When the wind is blowing, which it almost always is, with the walls groaning and the shutters banging, the rooms overloaded and the staircase wound tightly up through its center, the house seems the material equivalent of her uncle's inner being: apprehensive, isolated, but full of cobwebby wonders.
~ Anthony Doerr
Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them?
~ Anthony Doerr
Ca inchipuiti mai sunt oamenii! De ce sa te obosesti sa compui muzica daca tacerea si vantul sunt mai cuprinzatoare? De ce sa aprinzi lampi daca intunericul, inevitabil, le va stinge?
~ Anthony Doerr
Cold demanded a sharper, simpler view of things: in those temperatures death hovered at the margins, offering clarity, providing precision. But it blurred things, too: the border between dreams and wakefulness, the way it pulled life from fingers and toes, and released them reluctantly, temporarily. The way the wind came, like news from another, more tenuous world, and stirred the trees.
~ Anthony Doerr
Both of them lived in the grips of forces they had no control over--the November wind, the revolutions of the earth.
~ Anthony Doerr
I look up at John Paul's bedroom and think, If his bed is near the window, he can watch clouds soaring past the cupola - huge anvils of cumulus, pale and full of shoulders. The wind slowly tears them to shreds. Thin blades of light slip through and touch down everywhere.
~ Anthony Doerr
Then an astonishing thing occurred. In the early afternoon, the wind shifted
~ Anthony Everitt
Then sometime there in late March, after the Indian violets had come, we would be gathering on the mountain and the wind, raw and mean, would change for just a second. It would touch your face as soft as a feather. It had an earth smell. You knew springtime was on the way. The next day, or the next (you would commence to hold your face out for the feel), the soft touch would come again. It would last a little longer and be sweeter and smell stronger.
~ Forrest Carter
The fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
In India she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. The fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the poems didn't make sense to my teachers. They didn't rhyme. They were about the wind sounds, the planets' motions, never about who I was or how I felt. I didn't think I felt anything. I was this mind more than a body or a heart. My mind photographing the stars, hearing the wind.
~ Francesca Lia Block
I remember salt smoke from a beach fire And shadows under the pines— Solid, clean…fixed— Seagulls perched at the tip of land, White upon green… And a wind comes through the pines To sway the shadows; The seagulls spread their wings, Lift And fill the sky with screeches. And I hear the wind Blowing across our beach, And the surf, And I see that our fire Has scorched the seaweed.
~ Frank Herbert
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity of the sand.
~ Frank Herbert
Una semilla impulsada por el viento puede ser el sauce del mañana
~ Frank Herbert
A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.
~ Frank O'Connor
tonight the gars on trees are swords in the hands of knights the stars are like twenty-seven dancing russians and the wind is
~ Frank Stanford
On both sides of them lay a dense forest of towering evergreens. Ice was forming along the banks, which in places were strewn with rugged boulders or rose in steep, rocky upthrusts. As the afternoon wore on, the wind grew stronger and more bitter. Dark clouds closed in from the northwest. René muttered, "The snow, she come soon, I think.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
In the moonlit graveyard leaves rustled in the wind. Tombstones cast eerie shadows. Off in the distance a dog howled.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don't find yourself.
~ Franz Kafka