Wind Quotes

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

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

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

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.

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.

Who am I to blow against the wind?

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

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

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

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

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

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

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.

I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.