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  • ...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.

    Home   Wind   House  
    George MacDonald (2015). “At the Back of the North Wind (Illustrated): Children's Classic Fantasy Novel from the Author of Adela Cathcart, Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, The Light Princess & Dealings with the Fairies”, p.27, e-artnow
  • Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant... Rose? The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!

  • If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

    'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3
  • Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.

    Cat   Wind   Dying  
    William Carlos Williams, Macha Louis Rosenthal (1966). “The William Carlos Williams Reader”, p.109, New Directions Publishing
  • If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.

    Blue   Wind   Yellow  
  • Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

    Nature   Travel   White  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.450, Penguin
  • Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

    Funny   Life   Reality  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

  • It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.

    Rain   Fall   Winter  
    Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.179, Vintage
  • I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

  • The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!

    Good Night   Song   Wind  
    William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.160
  • I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

    Years   Wind   Pyramids  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 388-90, Carmina, III. 30. 1, 1922.
  • A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.

    Couple   Wind   Hollywood  
  • Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

  • Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow's smile. He used to mess my hair and call me "little sister," she remembered, and suddenly there were tears in her eyes.

    George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.2982, Bantam
  • Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.

    Wind   Sea   Sky  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.246, tredition
  • Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

    Death   Time   Stars  
  • Nothing easier. One step beyond the pole, you see, and the north wind becomes a south one.

    Wind   Steps   Easier  
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