One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows. — A. A. Milne
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon. — Garth Nix
April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances — Matsuo Basho
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. — Kenneth Grahame
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. — Anne Bronte
A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream. — Walter de La Mare
The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields. — Truman Capote
And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear. — Lord Byron
The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. — Oscar Wilde
Jolly boating weather,
And a hay harvest breeze,
Blade on the feather,
Shade off the trees. — William Johnson Cory
When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces,
The mother of months in meadow or plain
Fills the shadows and windy places
With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go. — Henry Fielding
The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons. — Pope John Paul II
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. — John Ruskin
Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end. — Mary Anne Radmacher
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. — Yogi Berra
But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow? — Lauren Oliver
A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed. — Michael Behe
If there is no wind, row.
Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. — Bernard of Clairvaux
I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far. — Billy Connolly
The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA. — Marion Jones
Planning stuff out sucks. If you plan stuff out, you wind up talking in a very monotonous, unnatural way. — CM Punk
Winding Down Quotes
I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say. — Geronimo
You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. — C. S. Lewis
After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjust the sails.
When the stormy winds of life threaten to knock you down, may you have the courage to spread your wings and fly! — Lance Wubbels
There’s no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down. — Irish Proverbs
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. — Leo Buscaglia
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind. — Grover Cleveland
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over. — John Masefield
I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears. — James Herriot
And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand. — William Faulkner
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. — Henry Ford
In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it. — Maurice White
We cant direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain
The sky is falling, the wind is calling
Stand for something, or die in the morning — Kendrick Lamar
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. — John Muir
The pine fought the storm and broke. The willow yielded to the wind and snow and did not break. Practice Jiu-Jitsu in just this way. — Kano Jigoro
To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves. — Gretel Ehrlich
I can't always change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine. — Beatrix Potter
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. — Walter Scott
What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree. — Elizabeth George Speare
We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long. — Catherine Maria Fanshawe
We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render. — Edgar Fawcett
Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space. — Morihei Ueshiba
The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything. — Pink
Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing! — Kenneth Grahame
All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all! — Kenneth Grahame
I loved The Wind in the Willows. ... Walt Disney should be sued for cheapening it as he did. Imagine it, Mickey Mousing all those nice characters. I'm surprised he didn't do it with the New Testament. — Tasha Tudor
All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered. — Kenneth Grahame
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind. — Frank Herbert
The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls. — Haruki Murakami
Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.' — Terry Pratchett
Beyond the Wild Wood comes the wild world,"said the Rat."And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and I'm never going' nor you either, if you've got any sense at all. — Kenneth Grahame
It takes all sorts (to make a world — Miguel de Cervantes
It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers. — Anthony Anderson
Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way. — Kenneth Grahame
Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up. — A. A. Milne
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital. — John Le Carre
When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind. — Eiji Yoshikawa
Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer. — Wang Wei
Then suddenly the Mole felt a great Awe fall upon him, an awe that turned his muscles to water, bowed his head, and rooted his feet to the ground. It was no panic terror - indeed he felt wonderfully at peace and happy - but it was an awe that smote and held him and, without seeing, he knew it could only mean that some august presence was very, very near. — Kenneth Grahame
No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter. — Kenneth Grahame
Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new! — Kenneth Grahame
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