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Quotes About Wind

A voice that to Dominica's fancy seemed to hold all the sunshine and the salt wind of fine days at sea smote her ears.
~ Georgette Heyer
November arrives in Northern Maine on a cold wind from Canada that knives unfiltered through the thinnest forest, drapes snow along the river banks and over the slope of hills. It's lonely up here, not just in fall and winter but all the time; the weather is gray and hard and the spaces are long and hard, and that north wind blows through every space unmercifully, rattling the syllables out of your sentences sometimes.
~ Gerard Donovan
We have been developing an ever closer relationship with China on climate change for many years which has led to collaboration on carbon trading, offshore wind development, on low-carbon buildings, on nuclear energy, and on carbon capture and storage - to name just some of the ways in which we're working together.
~ Ed Davey
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
~ Pliny the Elder
I think the best way I can tell it to you is — that last night I loved the starlight — the dark — the wind and the miles and miles of the thin strip of dark that is land — It was wonderfully big — and dark and starlight and night moving —
~ Sarah Greenough
Listen as the wind blows From across the great divide Voices trapped in yearning Memories trapped in time
~ Sarah McLachlan
I can see the darkness winding around me like silk ribbons, streaming and flapping in a wind that is not there.
~ Sarah Monette
The wind is the moon's imagination wandering. It seeps through cracks, ripples the grass, explores the unknown. My love is my soul's imagination.
~ Saul Williams
The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.
~ Saul Williams
You've the presence of a mouse fart in a high wind. Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.
~ Scott Lynch
Do I still strike you as a man farting in an enclosed room, Lamora? In here, I do command the wind.…
~ Scott Lynch
Chorus, you call yourself," he said. "You've the presence of a mouse fart in a high wind. Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.
~ Scott Lynch
THE WIND BLEW strong
~ Scott O'Dell
nothing from the summer carries more lasting allure for me than the memory of sitting with Ruth on the bank of a stream on campus, taking turns reading aloud from the books we held on our laps, while the wind wet leaves gossiping in the old trees above us and the creek rustled in its stony bed.
~ Scott Russell Sanders
So whether he calls it spirit music or not, I don't care. He took it out of wind off mid-Atlantic.
~ Seamus Heaney
It was a fortunate wind That blew me here. I leave Half-ready to believe That a crippled trust might walk And the half-true rhyme is love. - From "Voices from Lemnos
~ Seamus Heaney
Now it's high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What's left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love.
~ Seamus Heaney
May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.
~ Roger Bannister
Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
~ Samuel Rogers
Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.
~ Shannon Hale
The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.
~ Van Jones
Warm summer sun, shine brightly here, Warm Southern wind, blow softly here, Green sod above, lie light, lie light, Good night, dear heart; good night, good night.
~ Mark Twain
a devil will come, or maybe two or three, but you can't see 'em, you can only hear something like the wind, or maybe hear 'em talk; and when they're
~ Mark Twain
this is the only ship going east this time of the year, but there's a thousand coming west—what's a fair wind for us is a head wind to them—the Almighty's blowing a fair wind for a thousand vessels, and this tribe wants him to turn it clear around so as to accommodate one—and she a steamship at that! It ain't good sense, it ain't good reason, it ain't good Christianity, it ain't common human charity.
~ Mark Twain