Rain Quotes - Page 34

• The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Doe, Preacher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Harvard University Press

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• Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

  Samuel Johnson

  Nature, Animal, Vegetables

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.493

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• In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Spring, Mean

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• I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?

  Janet Morris

  Power, Light, Want

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• You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.

  Hal Roach

  Summer, Ireland And The Irish, Funny Irish

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• In lang, lang days o' simmer,
  When the clear and cloudless sky
  Refuses ae weep drap o' rain
  To Nature parched and dry,
  The genial night, wi' balmy breath,
  Gars verdue, spring anew,
  An' ilka blade o' grass
  Keps its ain drap o' dew.

  James Ballantine

  Summer, Spring, Night

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• The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Motivational, Broken Heart

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• Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Change, Moon, Clouds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.956, Delphi Classics

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• You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

  Bill Nighy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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• It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Worry, Use, Umbrella

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• You cannot force things to happen before their time. The Spring Will come and the flowers will blossom, but you cannot force the Spring. The Rain will come, the clouds will cover the sky, the whole thirst of the earth will be gone- but you cannot force it. And this is the beauty... that the more patient you are, the quicker is the coming of Spring.

  Rajneesh

  Spring, Flower, Yoga

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• If the first of July it be rainy weather,
  'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together.

  John Ray

  Summer, July, Weather

  "A Complete Collection of English Proverbs".

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• Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.

  Wallace Stevens

  Flower, Dust, Blood

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.252, Vintage

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• Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.

  Mr. Wrestling

  Political, Campaigns, Politics

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• There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

  Linford Christie

  Sports, Athlete, Shining

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• If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

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• The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Summer, Song, August

  Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.9, Pendragon Press

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• Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

  Jimmy Piersall

  Inspirational, Baseball, Fathers Day

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• It takes a truly cool girl to pull off short-shorts and rain boots.

  Peter Som

  Girl, Fashion, Boots

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• Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Positive Thinking, Nebula

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Everyday Immortality”, p.75, Random House

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• If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.

  Jan Erik Vold

  Years, Rivers, Water

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• Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Art, Color, Water Of Life

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• Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Rivers, Water, Secret

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.

  Linda Hogan

  Rivers, Water, Atmosphere

  Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sea, Rivers, Water

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