Best wind & strong Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949

“Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind without hampering its course. Like light-- In light, lit through by light, transformed into light. Like the lens which disappears in the light it focuses. Like wind. Like light. Just this--on these expanses, on these heights.”

Light Courses Strong Wind Disappear Height Flats Transformed Sail Bent Lenses Lit Expanse

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“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.”

Found Strong Force Wind Wall Speed Streams Pushing Very Strong Bricks Jet Balloons Brick Wall

Author:Richard Branson

“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”

Giving Light Strong Felt Dark Wind Giving Up Lows Tiny Warmth Steady Burned Not Giving Up Flicker Laura

Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder

“I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind. -Lindo”

Beautiful Strong Saws Wind Pure Red Dresses Valuable Genuine Joy Luck Club

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.”

Years Said Hard Running Strong Wind Hair Promise Letting Go Six Twenties Forgiving Fingers Blow Thirty New Year Sixteen Forgive Me Old Year Hard To Let Go

Book:An ordinary woman

Source: An ordinary woman

“The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone.”

Strong Worry Pieces Cutting Tree Wind Weakness Shining Grass Branches Thick Brag

Author:Rumi

“You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.”

Strong Sea Wind Storm Flying All Alone Gulls

Book:Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

“Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.”