Windy Quotes

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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
- Rupert Brooke

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I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps.
I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician,
though I'm glad I am not any of these.
- Tom Glazer

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes,
I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped
by the lashes Of your rhetoric,
windy of course.
- Stephen Spender

Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway (attributed)

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous

I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
I will give my body to my love and celebrate
that we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves.
We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point.
This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

All we are is dust in the wind.
- the band Kansas

No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill

We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,
going and coming like ourselves,
traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day,
and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John Muir

If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra

Most people never run far enough on their first wind
to find out they've got a second.
- William James

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
- Anne Bronte

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...
I play with leaves.
I skip down the street and run against the wind.
- Leo Buscaglia

If one does not know to which port one is sailing,
no wind is favorable.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding
to the spiritual energy of wind.
- Annie Dillard

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing,
wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating;
there is really no such thing as bad weather,
only different kinds of good weather.
- John Ruskin

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones,
as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind,
and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
- Walter Scott

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain
to my place of embarkation.
- William Henry Ashley

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks,
any wind is the right wind.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
- Frank Harris

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.
- Robert Southwell

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind:
so the loftier the life,
the stronger the enemy's temptations.
- John Wycliffe

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of
the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the
ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.
- Antony Hewish

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail,
and mankind the vessel.
- Augustus Hare

Green how I want you green.
Green wind.
Green branches.
- Federico Garcia Lorca

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
- Herbert Read

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
- Bodhidharma

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
- Brad Pitt

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind.
But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
- Chanakya

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music
was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it.
You had to be there.
It was quite funny.
- Roy Wood

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the
wind out of somebody or other.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Dirt makes a man look masculine.
Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that.
It's OK.
All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
- Hedy Lamarr

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either
imagination or a headache.
- Catherine the Great

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy,
we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce
America's dependence on foreign oil.
- Tim Johnson

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man.
Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
- Lewis Mumford

They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose.
I really wind them up.
- Tracey Emin

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else,
something I operate and wind up and have to make an
impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.
- Charles Dance

Who am I to blow against the wind?
- Paul Simon

What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?
- Thomas Malory

Political language...
is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,
and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- George Orwell

It is said that love makes the world go 'round -
the announcement lacks verification.
It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
- O. Henry

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere
of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning
the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.
- Anne Edwards

If you reveal your secrets to the wind,
you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- Khalil Gibran

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin,
and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
- Patricia Cornwell

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
- Edward Fitzgerald

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.
- George Leigh Mallory

You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'.
These aren't stories.
They're joke books.
The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
- Brian P. Cleary

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature,
large and small - the sounds of wind and water,
the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find
their analogues in music.
- George Crumb

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
- Michel de Montaigne

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings
of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
- Carl Sandburg

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind.
And I often write my songs for myself.
- David Friedman

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life,
and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
- Ella Maillart

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind
that ruffles the curtains at dawn,
and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
- John Steinbeck

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be
washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by
each successive political wind.
- Hugo Black

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May the world be kind to you,
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie