Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Holmes

I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.

Siegfried Sassoon

Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.

Sholom Aleichem

A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.

Sheri S. Tepper

Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with the heater on, and the defroster on, protected from the rain and the cold? It hasn’t been much longer than that we’ve had lighting for streets. Think of all that darkness, all that world out there, all that mystery that we’ve turned into well-lighted concrete bunkers, safe and warm and dull.

Sherman Alexie

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Neil Gaiman

Whenever it rains you will think of her.

Neil Gaiman

There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow endless drizzle.

Neil Gaiman

Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.

Neil Gaiman

After a while it sort of began to rain, which is to say that it was the kind of rain that never comes to a decision about whether it's actually raining or not. Driving in it, you would never have been certain whether or not to turn on your wipers.

Neil Gaiman

There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.

John Newton

Every drop of rain hits its appointed target.

John Steinbeck

I should have known […] I am the rain. […] I am the land […] and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

Marilyn French

rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.

Moses

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

Ray Charles

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

Simon Van Booy

If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.

Rajneesh

Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.

Rajneesh

In rain during a dark night, enter that darkness.

Terry Pratchett

The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.

Kin Hubbard

Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.

Melinda Gates

We also look at farming. Are we making sure that we're getting the latest seeds out to women so they can get a bigger yield off of their farms? A new type of seed that gets out to a man, let's say, that's drought resistant - because, of course, the rains are changing in Africa with climate change - if you don't put it in the hands of a woman, she won't necessarily get it. We look at breaking down all those barriers.

Michael Oppenheimer

The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones and acid rain on ground level - while we're also changing the thermal climate of the earth through the greenhouse effect and - get this - simultaneously causing destruction of our primary filter of ultraviolet light. It's incredible. Talk about the national-debt crisis - we're piling up debts in the atmosphere, and the piper will want to be paid.

Michael Ondaatje

all this Beethoven and rain

Michael Ondaatje

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

Ray Bradbury

And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds.

Ray Bradbury

And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.

Ray Bradbury

I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.

Ray Bradbury

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.

Empedocles

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

Henry Rollins

I do a lot of walking around in game parks, rain forests, places like that, but it's not like I'm camping in them as much as my day walks. I've done that all over the world, not like with a backpack on my back living out in the woods for several days. When I travel abroad, it's more the city that captures my interest.

Henry David Thoreau

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain...

Patricia Cornwell

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.