Wind Quotes and Sayings
Wind Quotes and Sayings
The wind has always been a strong emotional object for writers, philosophers and the like. For some cultures, wind is of the utmost importance as it drives their transportation, fishing, or agricultural needs.
So many quotes and sayings about wind exist that we can only provide a brief look at proverbs involving the wind.
A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.
Thomas Gold Appleton
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Lewis Mumford
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine the Great
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
e. e. cummings
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
James Stephens
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Roger de Rabutin
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
Norman Mailer
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
Kate Chopin
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
Grover Cleveland
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran
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
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
Chanakya
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy’s temptations.
John Wycliffe
The older you get the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face.
Pablo Picasso
The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
Herbert Read
The sound of ‘gentle stillness’ after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Jim Elliot
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Charles R. Swindoll
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
Henry Beston
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