Air Quotes - page 4

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use. (Louis Brandeis)
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. View quote
Erich Fromm
Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat. View quote
Albert Kesselring
I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood. View quote
Max Müller
In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving - from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. View quote
William Shakespeare
The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Thanks be to God,' says the Admiral, 'the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is. View quote
Christopher Columbus
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together. (Emily Brontë)
The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time. View quote
Henry Ford
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. View quote
Franz Kafka
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. View quote
John Burroughs
The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
It is one of the most beautiful characteristics of Theosophy that it gives back to people in a more rational form everything which was really useful and helpful to them in the religions which they have outgrown... in this teaching as to the immortality of the soul and the life after death, Theosophy...does not put forward these great truths merely on the authority of some sacred book of long ago; in speaking of these subjects it is not dealing with pious opinions, or metaphysical speculations, but with solid, definite facts, as real and as close to us as the air we breathe or the houses we live in - facts of which many among us have constant experience - facts among which lies the daily work of some of our students, as will presently be seen. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did. View quote
Eartha Kitt
In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing. View quote
Don Tapscott
Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone. View quote
Cornelia Funke
O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. View quote
Langston Hughes
They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence. View quote
Louis L'Amour
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair. View quote
Evel Knievel
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air. View quote
Amy Sedaris
Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? View quote
Tecumseh