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Quotes of the Day for 18 March 2005 - Wind

At one o'clock in the afternoon on this day in 1925 a tornado, The Tornado, touched down at Ellington, Missouri. The storm traversed southern Illinois and ended at Petersburg, Indiana, 219 miles of destruction in three and a half hours. Fatalities totaled 695, hospitals treated 2,027, and 15,000 homes were destroyed. Not only was it the most severe tornado seen in US history, in the era before radio and electricity were common there was no warning those in the path. Todays quotes are related to less destructive Wind.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
     - Aesop

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would not see the beauty of their carvings.
     - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
     - Euripides

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
     - John Muir, 1838 - 1914

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
     - Seneca

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
     - Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965

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