Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

Bum Phillips

Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors.

James Dickey

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Janet Erskine Stuart

isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain ...

Janet Evanovich

It was dark and raining, with bad visibility, but this was Jersey, and we don't slow down for anything.

Etel Adnan

I love rains which carry desires to oceans.

Ethan Hawke

I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.

The situation is pretty well under control. But we need the rain to stop.

The students in the square rained on Deng's parade,

Kevin Moore

Back when it rained in '55, they didn't have waterproof glue. Now we have waterproof glue.

As long as there's no rain or snow Friday, Saturday or Sunday, we're fine.

Joe Girardi

They said it was going to rain for a long time.

The weather has suddenly changed. If it rains tonight (Tuesday) as well, we would have to see how much sweating is there on the track.

William Davis

A rainbow and a cuckoo's song / May never come together again; / May never come / This side the tomb.

Hal David

I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'...

Hal Borland

Any river is really the summation of the whole valley. To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part.

Gladys Taber

Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.

Herman Melville

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

Henry David Thoreau

The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.

Henry David Thoreau

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

Henry David Thoreau

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

Henry David Thoreau

The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear as plainly in theinfringement as in the observance, and our lives are sustained by a nearly equal expense of virtue of some kind. The decaying tree, while yet it lives, demands sun, wind, and rain no less than the green one. It secretes sap and performs the functions of health. If we choose, we may study the alburnum only. The gnarled stump has as tender a bud as the sapling.

James Callaghan

The surtax payers, having been soaked, have found a way to get out of the rain.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the wood and mountain tall To Rivendell where Elves yet dwell In glades beneath the misty fell Through moor and waste we ride in haste And wither then we cannot tell With foes ahead behind us dread Beneath the sky shall be our bed Until at last our toil be sped Our journey done, our errand sped We must away! We must away! We ride before the break of day!

Iyanla Vanzant

No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don't worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever.

Isaac Asimov

They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping down the rain forests and plant more saplings, and we're on our way.

Isaac Asimov

I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am sitting at the window, looking out at the rain, and thinking how much I love you.'

Isaac Asimov

Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a good grasp of science. The ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, questions of diet and heredity. All require scientific literacy. Can Americans choose the proper leaders and support the proper programs if they themselves are scientifically illiterate? The whole premise of democracy is that it is safe to leave important questions to the court of public opinion-but is it safe to leave them to the court of public ignorance?

Elton John

Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain, entertaining white powder.

Elton John

Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.

Ellen Gilchrist

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does.

Ian Mcewan

What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?

Herbert Simon

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.