Blowing

Famous quotes containing the word blowing:

    “The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.”
    —Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)

    “But the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and falling rain.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The yellow pool has overflowed high up on Clooth-na-Bare,
    For the wet winds are blowing out of the clinging air;
    Like heavy flooded waters our bodies and our blood;
    But purer than a tall candle before the Holy Rood
    Is Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)