Quotes About Wind

And the stars in the night were the eyes of his wolves, and the wind itself was their song.

She remembered a tale she had heard from Old Nan, about how sometimes during a long winter men who'd lived beyond their years would announce that they were going hunting. And their daughters would weep and their sons would turn their faces to the fire, she could hear Old Nan saying, but no one would stop them, or ask what game they meant to hunt, with the snows so deep and the cold wind howling. She wondered what the old Braavosi told their sons and daughters, before they set off.

The wind cut like a knife up here, and shrilled in the night like a mother mourning her slain children.

Sail far. Sail fast.

Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves.

A man will win one tourney, and fall quickly in the next. A slick spot in the grass may mean defeat, or what you ate for supper the night before. A change in the wind may bring the gift of victory." He glanced at Ser Jorah. "Or a lady's favor knotted round an arm." Mormont's face darkened. "Be careful what you say, old man.

Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back. That

Words are wind, they cannot hurt you

And a good thing." Davos gestured at the distant lights flickering along the walls of Storm's End. "Feel how cold the wind is? The guards will huddle close to those torches. A little warmth, a little light, they're a comfort on a night like this. Yet that will blind them, so they will not see us pass... The god of darkness protects us now, my lady. Even you.

Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back.

As pineskeep the shape of the windeven when the wind has fled and is no longer there,so wordsguard the shape of maneven when man has fled and is no longer there.

The weather was so contrary and fierce that the rain wasn't mere rain or the wind freezing wind - this was a conspiracy of the elements.

In a few days small white clouds started their winter parade, trooping across the sky, soft and chubby, long, languorous, and unkempt, or small and crisp as feathers, and driving them before it, like an ill-assorted flock of sheep, would come the wind. This was warm at first, and came in gentle gusts, rubbing through the olive groves so that the leaves trembled and turned silver with excitement, rocking the cypresses so that they undulated gently, and stirring the dead

There is a pleasure sure In being mad, which none but madmen know. DRYDEN, The Spanish Friar, II, i The Migration July had been blown out like a candle by a biting wind that ushered in a leaden August sky.

These summer storms would be hatched in a nest of cumulus clouds in the Albanian mountains and ferried rapidly across to Corfu by a warm, scouring wind

And her laughter was like the wind, the water, and a thousand songbirds singing together.

But while I fill up my mouth with prayers, they bring no comfort. My words rattle against each other like the last beech leaves on a winter branch, and though a hard wind scours the forest, it cannot free them from the bough; it will not lift them upward into the wide white sky.

Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, Kindness as large and plain as a prairie wind.

Rock-a-bye baby, on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall; Down will come baby, cradle and all.

Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one sleeps.

Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.

What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath.

The wind that blows, the ship that goes And the lass that loves a sailor.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.