Clouds Quotes - Page 27

• Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.

  Homer

  Wind, White, Foam

  Homer (1818). “The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates”, p.342

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• Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Time, Play

  1597-8 Prince Harry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 2, sc.2, l.133-5.

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• We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Fire, Glasses

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.7

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• Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.

  Thomas Hood

  Sweet, Morning, Father

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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• If but one message, I may leave behind, One single word of courage for my kind, It would be this – Oh, brother, sister, friend, Whatever life may bring – what God may send, No matter whether clouds life soon or late-- Take heart and wait!

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Patience, Brother, Heart

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• How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.

  Robert Southey

  Beautiful, Night, Air

  Robert Southey (1829). “Poetical works”, p.89

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• Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.

  Jean Cocteau

  Aquariums, Water, House

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• Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

  Alan Greenspan

  Numbers, United States, Economic

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• The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.

  Robert Bridges

  Moon, Wind, House

  Robert Seymour Bridges, “Low Barometer”

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• Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all week, .. Rain would be a relief.

  Joan Didion

  Rain, Dark, Ceilings

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• The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

  John Muir

  Stars, Eye, Wind

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, Canongate Books

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• A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Lying, Brotherhood

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.110, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Storm, Forests

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.13

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• When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, Sky, Littles

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• A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Tree, Grace

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 24, 2017

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• When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.

  Mario Andretti

  Failure, Black, Losing

  "Super Speedway". Documentary, Action, Sport, 1997.

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• Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

  Arthur Symons

  Love, Heart, Fire

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Sunset, Flames, Earth

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1968). “Down Half the World”, New York : Macmillan

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• I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.

  Philip Guston

  Country, Nature, Real

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.

  Jay London

  People, Casting, Auditions

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• We've got clouds and rain, just like in Seattle .. but Sao Paulo is better.

  Eddie Vedder

  Rain, Sao Paulo, Seattle

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• I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football -- too many -- but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Firsts, Super Bowl

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• The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

  Bob Brown

  Government, Land, Cuckoos

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• Sometimes I don't know what to say; the pain never stops. The cloud never goes away, the rain never drops

  Jay Electronica

  Pain, Rain, Sometimes

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• The white saucer like some full moon descends / At last from the clouds of the table above.

  Harold Monro

  Moon, White, Tables

  1914 'Milk for the Cat'.

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