Air Quotes - page 2

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. (George Burns)
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. View quote
A. E. Housman
Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. View quote
John Muir
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful. View quote
Drew Barrymore
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. View quote
Walt Whitman
Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where. View quote
Robert Bridges
Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one. View quote
Edward Abbey
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. View quote
Ronald Reagan
While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures according to natural temperament which make up the natures of all the different animals of the world, each after its kind. (Vitruvius)
Fir: it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its natural properties are of the lighter class, it is not heavy. Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. But it contains so much heat that it generates and encourages decay, which spoils it; and it also kindles fire quickly because of the air in its body, which is so open that it takes in fire and so gives out a great flame. View quote
Vitruvius
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person. View quote
Nelly Sachs
Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. View quote
Langston Hughes
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. View quote
Janet Frame
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. View quote
Claude McKay
One is led to conclude that economics as a scientific discipline is still somewhat hanging in the air. View quote
Tjalling Koopmans
You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood. View quote
Graham Greene
I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. View quote
Elizabeth Berkley
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. (William Ellery Channing)
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air. View quote
Alexander Pope
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