Gather Quote by Jacopo Sannazaro

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of…

— Jacopo Sannazaro

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

— Anonymous

“-the wind called a mordant note through the sickly trees while other less explicable sounds scraped up the beach-head toward him-waiting for the unknown…

— Nick Cutter

“He sat on the logs, smoking, drying in the sun, the sun warm on his back the river shallow ahead entering the woods, curving…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Out of a still, clear day, the wind suddenly picked up. It bowed the grass in his direction, unaccountably lifting his spirits and making…

— Nancy Pickard

“For once she wished she could be the wave, a powerful force to be reckoned with, rather than a speck on the beach waiting…

— Cecelia Mecca

“In the dry places, men begin to dream, wrote Wright Morris, who grew up north of here, in Nebraska. Where rivers run sand, something…

— Julene Bair

“Sometimes the waves come and wash away the sand so we can see the rock that make us stumble.”

— Hamilton C. Burger

“The Four Winds light was built on a spur of red sand-stone cliff jutting out into the gulf. On one side, across the channel,…

— L.M. Montgomery

Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.

— Robert Southwell

“It is like a man standing for decades on the seashore, embracing certain ‘good’ waves and trying to prevent them from disintegrating, while simultaneously…

— Yuval Noah Harari