Quotes about rain
rain dark wind
The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
rain fall heart
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall
rain sunset night
After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night.
rain night snow
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service] Herodotus
rain night snow
Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
rain woods forests
Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it. Henry Rollins
rain waiting stories
Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story Hilary Duff
rain rivers clouds
Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food. Henry Ward Beecher
rain blow wind
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.
rain flower writing
Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.
rain mean gazing
Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me. Haruki Murakami
rain heart rivers
Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.
rain thinking rocks
I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.
rain caring blow
Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders. Gustave Flaubert
rain heart sight
I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under the gaslamps, just as the sight of monks in their robes and girdles touches some ascetic, hidden corner of my soul.
rain fall heart
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.
rain guitar wind
If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson Greg Brown
rain fate past
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. John Dryden
rain marble hard
The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble. John Lyly
rain sunshine reality
We often hear of bad weather, but in reality, no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating. As Ruskin says, "There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Lubbock
rain weather looks
It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.
rain garden waiting
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain. John Lennon
rain waiting mind
There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will. John Banville
rain heart night
You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. You’ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your heart will shake, you’ll weep for nothing, pine for what’s not there. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you.
rain needs fixed
If it's raining you can't fix the roof, if it's not raining it doesn't need to be fixed Jim Rohn
rain fall doors
Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Charlaine Harris
rain labor-day delay
Tomorrow is our final show. That is unless it rains, and then there will be a rain delay. We'll probably make it up in a doubleheader around Labor Day. David Letterman
rain suffering forests
The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought. Dan Quayle
rain hands skins
He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away, he took her face between his hands and kissed her again, on her forehead, on her nose, on her mouth once more. "You will come, won't you? Promisse!" he whispered. Cornelia Funke
rain moon gone
There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless. Cormac McCarthy
rain men weather
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
rain vegetables california
For the first time American astronauts on the International Space Station ate vegetables grown in space. In other words, even space is getting more rain than California. Conan O'Brien
rain party water
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. Dwight Morrow