(1078 quotes found)
“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
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude.”
William Shakespeare
“A wet sheet and a flowing sea, / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / And bends the gallant mast.”
Allan Cunningham
“Our history sings of centuries Such varying songs it sings! It starts with winds, slow moving sails, It ends with skies and wings”
Catherine Cate Coblentz
“And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.”
Christina G. Rossetti
“You throw the sand against the windAnd the wind blows it back again.”
William Blake
“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
Dolly Parton
“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.”
Charles Dickens
“Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.”
Mark Twain
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
Seneca