Quotes about Air
ANATRON (A'NATRON) n.s.The scum which swims upon the molten glass in the furnace, which, when taken off, melts in the air, and then coagulates into common salt. It is likewise that salt which gathers upon the walls of vaults.
- Samuel Johnson
Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.
- Margaret Atwood
Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.
- Martin Luther
Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.
- Edith Wharton
Hope is as essential to your life as air and water. You need hope to cope. Dr. Bernie Siegel found he could predict which of his cancer patients would go into remission by asking, "Do you want to live to be one hundred?" Those with a deep sense of life purpose answered yes and were the ones most likely to survive. Hope comes from having a purpose.
- Rick Warren
The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.
- Maya Angelou
This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
- William Wordsworth
The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.
- John Updike
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill
Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air
- Robert Frost
Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon." "I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.
- AA Milne