(137 quotes found)
“When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.”
Robert Burns
“In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility;But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger:Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide,Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spiritTo his full height!”
William Shakespeare
“Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.”
William Cowper
“The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune”
William Penn
“Have a blast while you last”
Hollis Stacy
“Whether the eave-drops fall / Heard only in the trances of the blast, / Or if the secret ministry of frost / Shall hang them up in silent icicles, / Quietly shining to the quiet moon.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.”
Bible
“Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.”
Dante Alighieri
“Another hand thy sword shall wield,Another hand the standard wave,Till from the trumpet's mouth is pealedThe blast of triumph o'er thy grave.”
William Cullen Bryant
“What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.”
Madeleine Albright
