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“I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.”

People Wells I Can Feelings Speak Sleep Sun Tree Wind Glad Indian Babe Good Feeling Sleep Well Apaches

Author:Geronimo

“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.”

Light Born Freedom Break Sun Wind Native Native American Break Up Prairie Native America Great Native American Native American Earth Enclosure Apaches

Author:Geronimo

“Shooting in real-life situations helps actors because they're competing against the noise and the wind. Out of that comes things that shift and change, in terms of tone, but not in terms of re-honing the whole sequence.”

Real Whole Helping Actors Term Situation Wind Real Life Noise Shooting Tone Competing Sequence Honing

Author:Tony Scott

“It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.”

Seems Law Wind Physics Fundamentalism Laws Of Physics Winds Of Change

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.”

Ifs World Book Moving Night Levels Democracy Wind Happenings Selling Moving Away Top Down Winds Of Change

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.”

Should Done Force Sound Water Lines Cases Wind Colour Sand Motifs

Author:Arthur Dove

“As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.”

Art Modern Wind Demand Tradition Visuals Spirals Visual Art Art History Modern Art

Author:Igor Babailov

“If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.”

Source: Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers

“For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.”

Wanted Wonderful Wind Promise Approach Rest Of Your Life Manhattan Arriving Improbable Vantage Point

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“Every time I look at it, It looks back at me I love the sea, its waters are blue And the sky is too And the sea is very dear to me If when I grow up and the sea is still there Then I’ll open my eyes and smell the fresh air Because the sea is very dear to me The sea is very calm and that’s why I like it there The sand is brand new and the wind blows in my hair And the sea is very dear to me.”

Ifs Looks Stills Eye Grows Water Growing Up Air Sea Sky Wind Hair Blue Calm Dear Blow Smell Brands Sand Brand New Fresh Air

Book:This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

Source: This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.”

Pain Joy Spirit Left Sound Loses Hurt Our Lives Growing Risk Tree Crazy Childhood Dog Cry Wind Calling Okay Paint Curious Climbs Bike Wipe Vigorous Joy And Pain Hedgerows

Author:Peter Heller

“I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him.”

“The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.”

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .”

Men Hard Wind Rain East Reverence Forgiven Indulgence

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.”

Has Beens Sound Cry Wind Summer Winter Funeral

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.”

Doe Attitude Wind Accidents My Attitude Instability

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.”

Wind Jealousy Flames Jealous Scorpions

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.”

Knows Purpose Wind Fairs Sail

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.”

War Grows Wind Storm

Book:Poems, 1913-1956

Source: Poems, 1913-1956

“Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.”

Home Wind Dear Guests

Book:Poems, 1913-1956

Source: Poems, 1913-1956

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain No tapers mirrored in long palace floors, Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles, But just the common dusty wind-blown day That roofs earth's millions.”

Long Light Eye Earth Common Brain Millions Wind Drink Window Let Me Silent Depth Wide Dedicated Roof Palaces Aisle

Book:Artemis to Actaeon and More: Selected Verse

Source: Artemis to Actaeon and More: Selected Verse

“There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.”

Source: Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson

“Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.”

Firsts Air Wind Increase Desert Shed Disappoint Offspring Hail

Author:John Armstrong

“Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.”

Desire Wind Rose Blast

Book:The Best of James Joyce

Source: The Best of James Joyce

“In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things must meet and mate: A flame to melt--a wind to freeze; Sad patience--joyous energies; Humility--yet pride and scorn; Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity--reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel--Art.”

Source: Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville

“Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again”

Together Song Heard Rocks Wind Spring Sunlight Cried Moonlight Liquid Shiver Thrush

Author:Elyne Mitchell

“Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding hill tracks. Songs were sung about him to the cattle and both songs and tales had become even stranger since his supposed death when he vanished through the wind and the night over a great cliff. Tales kept cropping up of a ghost horse seen, or imagined, roaming over the mountains at night, of stockmen waking in a hut at midnight, hearing the tremendous stallion’s cry which could only be Thowra’s”

Years Night Song Cry Wind Mets Mountain Horse Rounds Track Stranger Hearing Ghost Tales Hills Silver Legends Waking Midnight Cliffs Cattle Huts Roaming Campfire Stallions

Author:Elyne Mitchell

“Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of a horse — came the Silver Stallion. Wild, beautiful, and free as the wind he came, from one kingdom to another, Thowra”

Lasts Beautiful Wind Shapes Horse Clouds Ghost Kingdoms Silver Twilight Moths Stallions

Author:Elyne Mitchell

“Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.”

Form Sweet Wind Selfish Lust Brutal Blast Wanton Capricious

Book:Comus: a masque, now adapted to the stage by John Dalton ... The fifth edition

Source: Comus: a masque, now adapted to the stage by John Dalton ... The fifth edition

“The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.”

Water Wonder Wind

Book:The Poetical works

Source: The Poetical works

“The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.”

Looks Said Two Doors Ready Wind Draws Spread Hungry Look Up Feds Engines Sheep Mist Foul Grim Paws Contagion

Author:John Milton

“Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.”

Thinking Wind Threat Deeds Awe

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton

“When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.”

Earth Fire Wind Angel Lightning Thrones Messengers Decree Messenger Of God

Book:Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings

Source: Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings

“And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

“For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.”

Thinking Book Wind Ears Ghost Tubes

Author:William Carlos Williams

“and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.”

Mind May Moving Grows Wind Scent Perfume

Author:William Carlos Williams

“Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind - But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested - the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty.”

Age Dark Failing Tree Wind Broken Bird Seeds Snow Old Age Flight Plenty Covered Harsh Flocks Skimming Bare Trees

Author:William Carlos Williams

“By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind.”

Wind Cold Blue Clouds Driven Hospitals Contagious Cold Wind

Book:William Carlos Williams

Source: William Carlos Williams

“Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.”

Light Wind Streams Sand Weed Salt Gleam Quiver Caverns

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.”

Soul Whole Winning Wind Thousand Glimpse Mirroring

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.”

Ifs Knows Doe Matter Purpose Universe Our Lives Fields Wind Machines Function Grass Thread Galaxy Blades Wind Blowing

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die”

People Has Beens War Ends Dies Lost Wind Meaning Of Life Apocalypse Rumor

Book:The Lyrics: 1961-2012

Source: The Lyrics: 1961-2012

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

Source: Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

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

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

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

Ifs Should Spiritual Secret Tree Wind Blame Gossip Revealing Rumor Secret Love Keeping Secrets Blaming Others Kept Secrets Gossiping And Rumors

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“As President, I'll invest in renewable energies like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of homegrown biofuels. That's how America is going to free itself from our dependence on foreign oil not through short-term gimmicks, but through a real, long-term commitment to transform our energy sector.”

“Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.”

Fire Wind Increase Customs

Book:The Golden Verses of Pythagoras

Source: The Golden Verses of Pythagoras

“When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.”

Thinking Feels Long Doe Important Sometimes Lying Night Stars Wind Importance Naked Beach Sand Grain Vocabulary Pillow Very Deep Indescribable Grains Of Sand Coconuts

Author:Marlon Brando

“Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.”

Grows Tree Wind Roots Palms Palm Trees Zion

Book:Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition

Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition

“I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.”

Wind Humble Cows Violet Fart Gale

Author:Djuna Barnes