Quotes about rain
rain army thinking
There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers! Winston Churchill
rain army blue
Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping — anon — anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone. William Wordsworth
rain eye glasses
His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines. William Gibson
rain darkness four
She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his. Sarah Rees Brennan
rain president umbrella
Mr. President, when it rains it pours, but most Americans hold their own umbrellas Sarah Palin
rain use umbrella
Rain is something the democrats use to sell umbrellas. Sarah Palin
rain wanted feels
I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain. Sara Bareilles
rain home thinking
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. William Faulkner
rain home night
Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy. Willem de Kooning
rain praying
Spahn and Sain and pray for rain, Warren Spahn
rain fall men
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. Saint Basil
rain hair hands
The first music I bought when I was nine or 10 was pop music from the '50s and '60s, like The Everly Bros., Elvis, Del Shannon, The Flamingos, The Platters, whatever I could get my hands on. And then some musical things, like Camelot, Singing in the Rain and Hair. Will Oldham
rain moving thinking
When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell of the veld. If you're African it's different and I don't think one will ever become an American or British. It doesn't matter where you move, you will always be a South African, Zola Budd
rainy-day sky light
I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies. Zane Grey
rain garden two
The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain. Wendell Berry
rain good-luck rivers
Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods. Wendell Berry
rain unjust
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. W. Somerset Maugham
rainbow crowds addresses
And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would start like this: "O rainbow-colored gods. . . Vladimir Nabokov
rainy-day laughing together
Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day. Yoko Ono
rain men mind
One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
rainbow felt
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death Yann Martel
rain darkness height
Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another. Yann Martel