Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert De Niro

Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.

Robert C. Solomon

Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.

Roald Dahl

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

Tablo

He laughed. I suddenly wanted to laugh, to laugh with him, to sit here, or maybe outside in the rain, and just laugh with him. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t even smile.

Tablo

It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings and help them build reserves for a rainy day.

Sylvia Plath

I woke to the sound of rain.

Sylvia Plath

Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.

Sylvia Plath

I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.

Swami Vivekananda

Ay! says the Vedanta, it is not the fault of God that this partiality exists, that this competition exists. Who makes it? We ourselves. There is a cloud shedding its rain on all fields alike. But it is only the field that is well cultivated, which gets the advantage of the shower; another field, which has not been tilled or taken care of cannot get that advantage. It is not the fault of the cloud.

Rupert Holmes

Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.

Rumi

I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain.

Rumi

I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.

Tom Robbins

It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the shower. Death was happy to be alive. The fetus bailed out without a parachute. It landed in the sideline Astroturf, so upsetting the cheerleaders that for the remained of the afternoon their rahs were more like squeaks.

Tom Robbins

On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden entrance into collar and shopping bag. The quiet rain that can rust a tin roof without the tin roof making a sound in protest. The shamanic rain that feeds the imagination. The rain that seems actually a secret language, whispering, like the ecstasy of primitives, of the essence of things.

Tom Robbins

My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.

Tom Lehrer

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

Tom Barrett

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

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.

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