Blown By The Wind Quotes

#1. ... you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind.

Daphne Du Maurier

#2. It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.

Richard Branson

#3. Why a slow death in a strange country if you can die on the threshold of your own house?
Refugees don't exist.
Only blown away people exist,
people blown by the wind
all over the world.

Ad De Bont

#4. Your gentle eyes escape to the moon;
Shooting stars in the rain blown by the wind.I have to learn to swim in my tears.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#5. My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!

Derek Jacobi

#6. If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

Vusi Mahlasela

#7. Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we think we do in this life, are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.

Saint Basil

#8. A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined. They are blown around like a leaf in the wind.

Frederick Lenz

#9. It seemed to him that he could hardly hear the sound of his own shrill voice: it was blown away from him by the willow-wind and drowned in a clamor of leaves, as soon as the words left his mouth. He felt desperate: lost and witless.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable ... the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street ... by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.

Hal Borland

#11. The victims," he said, "looked like a field of timothy grass, blown flat by the wind and rain after a summer storm.

Anthony P. Hatch

#12. I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night. He

Khaled Hosseini

#13. Is it as plainly in our living shown,
By which way the wind hath blown?

Adelaide Crapsey

#14. Once the seed of love peneterates deep down and takes its root, it cannot be blown away, even by the immortal gusts of wind!

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#15. If we read the Word and do not pray, we may become puffed up with knowledge, without the love that buildeth up. If we pray without reading the Word, we shall be ignorant of the mind and will of God, and become mystical and fanatical, and liable to be blown about by every wind of doctrine.

D.L. Moody

#16. Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

Hugo Black

#17. The others were far scattered, like leaves blown by the wild wind.

George R R Martin

#18. Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars,
blown about us by the wind, and drink the
universe in a glass of rain.

Ihab Hassan

#19. His soul, it seemed to him, was more than empty. It was desiccated, reduced to the powder of its substance and now in danger of being blown away by the first puff of the dawn wind that presaged the sun.

Randy Attwood

#20. Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas.

Tibullus

#21. As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

Sarada Devi

#22. Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it had never been. Thus are our lives blown away by Death.

Khalil Gibran

#23. The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.

Molefi Kete Asante

#24. Rain falls, wind blows, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away; these phenomena are all interrelated with causes and conditions, are brought about by them, and disappear as the causes and conditions change.

Gautama Buddha

#25. We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are sometimes slow to follow- but in the end they do catch up with our hearts and then we think we have made a decision

Muhammad Asad

#26. The second rector of [St. John's in] Providence was blown out of church one Sunday by 'an extraordinary gust of wind,' and the people, welcoming this ejection as an act of heaven, refused to let him in again.

George Hodges

#27. A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.

Richard Kinder

#28. Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. A few strands of his long, dark hair had been caught by the wind and blown against his face. Without thinking, she reached up and smoothed the strands away from his skin, wishing she could smooth away the pain etched there.

Kiki Hamilton

#30. Love is no hot-house flower,
but a wild plant, born of a wet night,
born of an hour of sunshine; sprung
from wild seed, blown along the road
by a
wild wind.

John Galsworthy

#31. Usually, we find it difficult to control our mind. It seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the wind - blown here and there by external circumstances.

Kelsang Gyatso

#32. Most of [her ashes] fell into the river in a long gray curtain. But some was caught by the wind and blown upward toward the blue spring sky where it swirled a moment in the air, before dissolving into sunlight.

Kimberly Cutter

#33. By the exercise of his will he has set his course, and on that course he will stay as if guided by an automatic pilot. If blown off course for a moment by some adverse wind he will surely return again as by a secret bent of the soul.

A.W. Tozer

#34. Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind.

Ismail Kadare

#35. Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that's a blessing.

Rumi