whirlwind quotes

   And, pleased th'Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.

-Joseph Addison
  The Campaign,1.291^2.

Behold there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of 92 fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 2:11^12.

   For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Hosea 8:7.

It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. The ashes of an oak in the chimney are no epitaph of that oak, to tell me how high or how large that was; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt when it fell†and when a whirlwind hathblownthedustofthechurchyard intothe church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce,This is the Patrician, this the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebeian bran.

-John Donne
c.1621 Of death. Sermon, 8 Mar.

Our childhoods are sowing the wind, our adulthoods are reaping the whirlwind.

- HarlanJay Ellison
  Approaching Oblivion, introduction.

Fair laughs the morn and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.

-Thomas Gray
  The Bard.  A Pindaric Ode, l.71^6.

   Here! creep, Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'No worst, there is none'.