He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height
I'm thankful for a pair of shoes that feel really good on my feet; I like my shoes. I'm thankful for the birds; I feel like they're singing just for me when I get up in the morning. . . Saying, 'Good morning, John. You made it, John. ' I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down. I'm thankful.
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.
I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.
Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.
My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.
