wind quotes

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn’t any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren’t properly alert.

My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.

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.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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

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.

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

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.