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Quotes About Wind

For me, the wind is the worst weather you can have to play football.
~ Bojan Krkic
We were nothing to them. I think now of the great value we put on what we were and I wonder what does it mean when another people judge you to be worth so little you were only to be killed? How our pride in everything was crushed so small it disappeared until it was just specks of things floating away on the wind.
~ Sebastian Barry
Out there in the silent prairie with only the perpetual wind for music and he tells us to charge. Ain't there an old story about a windmill?
~ Sebastian Barry
The end-of-summer winds make people restless.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
~ Seneca
Footsteps find a reason to exist as they imitate the winds, moving with the intensity of a hurricane when arrives the blessing of dance
~ Shah Asad Rizvi
Kugel set off, the wind in what would have been, some years ago, his hair.
~ Shalom Auslander
But we are not just called to be candles. We are called to be fire. Candles can be snuffed out by the slightest wind or by the smallest child on their birthday. But it's harder to put out a fire. We are to be fire, to weave our lives together so that the Spirit's inferno of love spreads across the earth.
~ Shane Claiborne
Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.
~ Shannon Hale
I am glad not to have lost him entirely, but to see him moved at the whim of the sky, like a man in the wind
~ Sharon Olds
It is better to bow to the dictates of the wind than to try to chase or chain it.
~ Sharon Shinn
Wild steep mountains floating in a haze of cloud...a sea of green trees swallowing the hills and valleys, and curling around the trails and rivers, with the wind in the leaves as its tide.
~ Sharyn McCrumb
Cut nerves left lying on the threshing floors drift and roll and wind up all aligned with the earth's magnetic field, like iron filings swayed by a magnet in a classroom experiment.
~ Shelley Jackson
I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
~ Haile Gebrselassie
The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.
~ Jean-Baptiste Say
The daemon wind died down, and the bloated, fungoid moon sank reddeningly in the west.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?
~ Diane Lane
As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
~ David Friedman
What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.
~ Friedrich Schiller
House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Above the snap and pop of the fire, the wind howled, prowling around the inn, snooping at the windows and whining at the door. The candle flames quivered in the draft, melting the wax into strange shapes.
~ Mary Downing Hahn
There are things you can't reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look; morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open.
~ Mary Oliver
For years and years I struggled just to love my life. And then the butterfly rose, weightless, in the wind. Don't love you life too much, it said, and vanished into the world.
~ Mary Oliver
I guess she was so busy with her own happiness she had grown careless and was just wandering along listening to the wind as she leaned down to lip the sweetness.
~ Mary Oliver