Top 31 Wind Sailing Quotes
#1. Life on the blue part of the globe for eight years had suited me - the wild open spaces, the bliss of buoyancy, the volatile, soul-powered wind. Sailing had struck a nerve both primal and poetic. On and near the ocean life made sense, It made every sense work.
Kaci Cronkhite
#2. They were two ships sailing in opposite diretions, having met for a short time in the middle of the voyage, and he could no sooner "keep her" than capture the wind.
Alexandra Bracken
#3. I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
Arthur Ashe
#4. The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
Lawrence Hargrave
#5. Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.
Catherine Of Siena
#6. Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
George Matthew Adams
#7. A slap or a fat check is what it takes if you want to see all the passions that go beating about behind a face take a sudden tack. It's as beautiful as watching a sailing ship maneuvering in a stormy sea. The whole person keels over in the changed wind.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#8. I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling ...
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#9. I'll always be there, Anna, in every ship you see sailing past. I'll be the wind in its sail.
Jade Parker
#10. For my part, whether sailing in cruiser or dinghy, I shall remain myself. My sails are not puffed out with the north wind in my favour, nor am I beating into the southern gales of affliction.
Horace
#11. Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.
P. J. O'Rourke
#13. When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#14. Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.
Barbara Ascher
#15. For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.
Hilaire Belloc
#16. Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.
Robert Breault
#17. What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#18. If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.
Seneca The Younger
#19. The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
William Falconer
#20. I close my eyes and listen to the ocean.
I'm thinking about sailing, to England or maybe France. The way the wind would feel on my face and the sound of his voice screaming my name through his laughter. The waves would crash like applause. God, I remember when I used to be afraid of the ocean.
Hannah Moskowitz
#21. Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by
J.R.R. Tolkien
#22. Trees quiver in the wind,
sailing on a sea of mist
out of earshot.
Dag Hammarskjold
#23. I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get me to open my mouth. And put my foot in it if necessary. I think the only thing I do that gives me any bragging rights in terms of energy conservation is sailing. Just using wind power.
Morgan Freeman
#25. This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath ...
Gary Paulsen
#27. It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.
Ernest K. Gann
#28. True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows. Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing with the winds of the day, but that kind of freedom is really an illusion. It turns your boat in circles. Freedom is sailing toward your dreams.
Mary Pipher
#29. War was like sailing. You could learn about clouds, wind direction, and currents, but the sea remained forever unpredictable. All you could do was adapt to it and try to return home alive.
Carsten Jensen
#30. I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.
Ricky Skaggs
