High Altitude Wind

Famous quotes containing the words high, altitude and/or wind:

    “The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places how are the
    mighty fallen!
    Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon;”
    —Bible: Hebrew Second Samuel (l. I, 19–20)

    “On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.””
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “I only know how this untimely lust has tossed
    flesh at the wind forever and moved my fears
    toward the intimate Rome of the myth we crossed.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)