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Quotes About Wind

I managed to find a spot where we had the wind from astern, a steep head sea on our starboard quarter and the tide race through the narrows at the same time. A few hours of that and our fierce horse soldiers were like little lambs—sick little lambs.
~ John Flanagan
Maybe the wind will get up again," he added hopefully. "Maybe," Jesper replied. He sounded a lot less hopeful about it. "I've found in the past that when you're in a jam and you really need something to happen, it usually doesn't.
~ John Flanagan
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
~ John Florio
Oh what a nothing is our life!--namely, a span, a dream, a wind, a shadow, a vapour, a post, swifter than a post (Job 7:6).
~ John Fox
the wind has a purpose - to rattle the window panes, disturb the cat and make me miss you ...
~ John Geddes
I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...
~ John Geddes
not even the wind can bring a tear to my eye the way you do...
~ John Geddes
strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day...
~ John Geddes
we went to watch the waves that bitter day and the wind took your red cap and mittens - blew them into the sea...
~ John Geddes
the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...
~ John Geddes
snow gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ...
~ John Geddes
Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...
~ John Geddes
Wind of the night, Questing, swaying, calling, Rustle of dull grasses, Why do you trouble me?
~ John Gould Fletcher
You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.
~ John Green
Grinder's Whispering in the Wind.
~ John Grinder
An ill wind that bloweth no man to good.
~ John Heywood
you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes
~ john j geddes
fingers of wind combed the lake into ridges—icy palm prints glistened wherever it rested
~ john j geddes
Mi escritura era muy apretada, como nerviosa. Las palabras discurrían en líneas titubeantes. como un campo de trigo recorrido por un soplo de viento.
~ John Katzenbach
Beyond a mortal man impassion'd farAt these voluptuous accents, he arose,Ethereal, flush'd, and like a throbbing starSeen mid the sapphire heaven's deep repose;Into her dream he melted, as the rose,Blendeth its odour with the violet,—Solution sweet: meantime the frost-wind blowsLike Love's alarum pattering the sharp sleetAgainst the window-panes; St. Agnes' moon hath set.
~ John Keats
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may findThee sitting careless on a granary floor,Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,Drows'd with the fume of poppies while thy hookSpares the next swath and all its twined flowers.
~ John Keats
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.
~ John Masefield
A wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels
~ John Masefield
Hear the wind and you will know the wind. Wind blows, and the generations are its leaves. There was no higher praise than what was said of Confucius: He knows where the wind comes from.
~ Eliot Weinberger