Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Where I come from, family’s defined as those who don’t screw you over a pay check. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they’ll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they’re your family.

John Milton

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

Noel Coward

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.

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.

Sherwood Smith

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.

Nikos Kazantzakis

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.

Nigel Rees

I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.

Myrtle Reed

The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?

Morris Chestnut

It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.

Johnny Mercer

Come rain or come shine.

John Ruskin

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

Max Brooks

Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction.

Max Brooks

If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining

Marilyn vos Savant

Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different.

Marilynne Robinson

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Matisyahu

Reach for the sky Keep your eye on the prize Forever in my mind Be my golden sunshine It's raining in your mind So push them clouds aside Forever by my side You're my golden sunshine

Matsuo Basho

Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.