Wind Quotes · Page 44

The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

— George William Russell

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

— James M. Barrie

An Easterly wind drew me this way, and I just kind of found myself on the set of Cruella.'

— Joel Fry

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

— Henry Adams

When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.

— Greg Plitt

“We drive along the streets of London, the wind in her hair, before I park us at a cliff overlooking the Thames.”

— Katy Evans

That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.

— Shannen Doherty

Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say…

— Anonymous

For a scruffy London kid like me the sights and sounds of the countryside, the wind on your face, was a different…

— David Essex

I think it's arguable about which one [Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump] will wind up being more harmful to us. But what…

— Jill Stein

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of…

— Charles Spurgeon

After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here…

— Anonymous

...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the…

— George MacDonald

And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let…

— Anonymous

As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching…

— Martin Luther

Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that…

— Neil Gaiman

And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing…

— Ray Bradbury

The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but…

— Lu Tong

Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle…

— Louis Aragon

The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping…

— Lamar Alexander

To maintain discipline in the military, it must have been necessary at that time. For soldiers who risked their lives in circumstances…

— Toru Hashimoto

In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories…

— Barack Obama

One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it…

— Jeannette Walls

Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly... Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was…

— Adelaide Crapsey

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

— Janet Frame

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

— Jim Elliot

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

— Anonymous

“...the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...”

— John Geddes

But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.

— John Suckling

Love is like a butterfly, it settles upon you when you least expect it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

May they road rise up to meet you, may the wind be always at your back.

— Unkown

Sometimes when the wind is blowing in my hair, I cry because its coolness is too beautiful

— Bob Kaufman

What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?

— Diane Setterfield

All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind

— Philip K. Dick

“That's what love does/ It chases the dragons away/ before their claws can sink in.”

— Toby Barlow

Britain has a lot of wind. It's our wind. We don't have to import it.

— Edward Davey

“the wind is us—it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields—I”

— Truman Capote

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

— Anonymous

The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.

— Thomas Berry