Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!

Tom Rath

There will be plenty of blame to go around but if you take credit for the sunshine, you also get blamed for the rain.

Simone Elkeles

Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?

Richard Brautigan

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Tite Kubo

If I were rain, That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch, Could I join two hearts as well?

Tite Kubo

The rain drags Black Sun down, but the rain dried by White Moon.

Tite Kubo

Thank you, Rukia... Because of you, the rain has stopped falling.

Robert A. Heinlein

When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.

Sonya Hartnett

Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

Rutger Hauer

Then he releases a dove and dies while sitting in a rain storm

Thomas Merton

Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is getting something. . . . The truth of the sunshine, the truth of the rain, the truth of the fresh air, the truth of the wind in the trees. . . and if we allow ourselves to be benefited by the forms of truth that are readily accessible to us instead of rejecting them as "merely natural," we will be in a better position to profit by higher forms of truth when they come our way.

Thomas Merton

What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen.

Tom Waits

Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.

Tom Waits

When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street in a dress and a funny hat and nothing's gonna make it rain. I go through periods - or spells - when I'm more receptive.

Tom Waits

When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

Sam Neill

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

Rumi

All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.

Rumi

Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.

Rumi

Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

Stephen Fry

Hey-ho, it's raining inside: it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow and when it does, I shall take full advantage.

Sri Chinmoy

I live in between My heart's compassion-rain And my life's oneness-gain.

Tom Hodgkinson

I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.

Tom Stoppard

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

Tom O'Connor

No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind or rain or sleet or sun (or all of them at once), hacking at a white pellet that seems to have a mind of its own and a lousy sense of direction.

Tim McCarver

Something to keep in mind - it's raining lightly. The infield could be very wet on ground balls.

Sam Ervin

Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.

Russell Page

I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.

Ronald Graham

The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions.

Stephenie Meyer

The rains would end, and when they did, Ian and I would be together, partners in the truest sense. This was a promise and an obligation I had never had in all my lives. Thinking of it made me feel joyful and anxious and shy and desperately impatient all at the same time—made me feel human.

Thomas Gibson

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

Victoria Wood

A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet.

Victor Hugo

Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.