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Quotes About Wind

She breathes in the cold air; pellets of blown ice whip against her face. The wind's getting up, as the TV said it would. Nonetheless there's something brisk about being out in the storm, something energizing: it whisks away the cobwebs, it makes you inhale.
~ Margaret Atwood
This is "poetry," this song of the wind across teeth, this message from the flayed tongue to the flayed ear.
~ Margaret Atwood
She breathes in the cold air; pellets of blown ice whip against her face. The wind's getting up, as the TV said it would. Nonetheless there's something brisk about being out in the storm, something energizing: it whisks away the cobwebs, it makes you inhale. The
~ Margaret Atwood
She] smiles, too, and eats and drinks, and is happy, and outside the kitchen window the wind blows and the world shifts and crumbles and rearranges itself, and time goes on.
~ Margaret Atwood
My firm resolve was to escape my wicked cousin and my English captors. But the wind was howling, and rain was coming down in sheets. And even as I relaxed in a hot bath in my snug apartments, the clamor of the storm outside was counseling me to be patient and wait. A wise woman never does anything in a hurry.
~ Margaret George
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Was Tara still standing? Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia?
~ Margaret Mitchell
A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.
~ Meriwether Lewis
And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.
~ William Faulkner
In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.
~ Eddy Merckx
As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.
~ Leslie Newman
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
~ John Florio
No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.
~ Serge Gainsbourg
Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test.
~ Gary Player
In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
~ John Millington Synge
Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
~ Paracelsus
When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.
~ Tom Kite
So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!
~ Brian Jacques
Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.
~ Domenico Cieri
Gloomily the clouds are sailing O'er the dimly moonlit sky; Dolefully the wind is wailing, Not another sound is nigh.
~ Anne Bronte
could see movement in the air all around her, could see that the wind had breath in it, a ripple, a warm exhalation. This month brought the sense of a light scarf being blown about, on the muscle of the wind.
~ Anne Lamott
Above me, wind does it's best to blow leaves off the aspen tree a month too soon. No use wind. All you succeed in doing is making music; the noise of failure growing beautiful.
~ Anne Lamott