Wind Compass Rose

Famous quotes containing the words wind, compass and/or rose:

    A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
    Jean Genet (1910–1986)

    Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
    Colley Cibber (1671–1757)

    O friend, my bosom said,
    Through thee alone the sky is arched,
    Through thee the rose is red,
    All things through thee take nobler form,
    And look beyond the earth,
    And is the mill-round of our fate
    A sun-path in thy worth.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)