Four Winds Quotes

#1. Some have held that there are only four winds: Solanus from the east; Auster from the south; Favonius from due west; Septentrio from the north. But more careful investigators tell us that there are eight.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#2. 26And then they will see w the Son of Man coming in clouds x with great power and glory. 27And then y he will send out the angels and z gather a his elect from b the four winds, from c the ends of the earth d to the ends of heaven.

Anonymous

#3. Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly.

Kate Chopin

#4. Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

William Blake

#5. I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

William Wells Brown

#6. And it be well for a knowlessman that he should not be here, for he would be taken from this place and his gaskin slit, his moules shown to the four winds, his welchet torn asunder with many hooks and his figgin placed upon a spike (...)

Terry Pratchett

#7. When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#8. I did not want to cry any more. Instead I felt hollow, empty, as if all the meaning had been sucked out of me and I was drifting, light as a skeleton leaf, at the mercy of the four winds. I was drained of tears.

Juliet Marillier

#9. NASA has been scattered to the four winds.

Eugene Cernan

#10. From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I knowA woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.

Johnny Mercer

#11. May the four winds gather & disperse the strength to grant me with all the same blessings once bestowed upon the goddess of Olympus.

Truth Devour

#12. It was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores.

L.M. Montgomery

#13. There are no coach seats on the journey to Christ when he calls his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to another.

Jared C. Wilson

#14. All four winds together can't bring the world to me Shadows cast a play of light, so much I want to see Chase the sun around the world, I want to look at life-In the Available Light. I'll go with the wind, I'll stand in the light.

Neil Peart

#15. Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left. Books collected on every surface; I believe that somehow they managed to breed

Luc Sante

#16. It's not about fucking," she asserted as we clucked nervously over her diagram. "It's about our species. We need to breed.

Andrew Miller

#17. In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.

Pat Paulsen

#18. The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#19. Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

Mike Leigh

#20. That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#21. It sounded so promising. As if this would be the day. The day to ride a bike without training wheels. To make it through the afternoon without a stained blouse and a scolding. To persuade the girl next door to like me. To meet a man. To make a mint. To prosper. To love. To live fearlessly.

Anna Quindlen

#22. The best way to be you is to be yourself.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#23. Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!

William Shakespeare

#24. I'm not afraid to say I'm competitive.

Andrew Luck

#25. Like a four-sided porch I'm open to all winds.

Luc Sante

#26. Rocks do not have dreams and that's why they are condemned to stay in the same place! To move, you must have dreams!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

Dave Van Ronk

#28. Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

Black Elk

#29. I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

#30. To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

Evelyn Waugh