Rain Quotes - Page 35

• Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

  Donald Worster

  Fall, Blessing, Water

  Donald Worster (1994). “The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination”, p.84, Oxford University Press

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• It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.

  Lyall Watson

  Rivers, Water, Body

  Lyall Watson (1987). “The dreams of dragons: riddles of natural history”, William Morrow & Co

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• We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Wine, Godly

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.226

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• To serve the cause of water adequately... We must get to know it in its true being. And how do we do this? Why, by treating it in the very way exemplified by its own behavior; that is, whenever we encounter it, we wash the tablet of our souls clean of all other impressions in order to allow the being of water to make its imprint on us.

  Theodor Schwenk

  Order, Rivers, Water

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• Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit in old age and watch the endless roll of the sea, we feel a strong kinship with the waters of this world.

  Hal Borland

  Strong, Spring, Animal

  Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York

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• Let the rain kiss you.
  Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
  Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
  The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
  The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
  The rain plays a little sellp-song on our roof at night-
  And I love the rain.

  Langston Hughes

  Running, Song, Spring

  Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The roofs are shining from the rain,
  The sparrows twitter as they fly,
  And with a windy April grace
  The little clouds go by.
  Yet the back yards are bare and brown
  With only one unchanging tree-
  I could not be so sure of Spring
  Save that it sings in me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, Clouds, Shining

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• I have seen the Lady April bringing
  the daffodils,
  Bringing the springing grass and the
  soft warm April rain.

  John Masefield

  Spring, April, Grass

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• All the wild sweetness of the flower
  Tangled against the wall.
  It was that magic, silent hour....
  The branches grew so tall
  They twined themselves into a bower.
  The sun shown ... and the fall
  
  Of yellow blossom on the grass!
  You feel that golden rain?
  Both of you could not hold, alas,
  (both of you tried, in vain)
  A memory, stranger. So I pass....
  It will not come again.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Wall, Memories, Spring

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

  Toni Morrison

  Spring, Flower, Winter

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• When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces,
  The mother of months in meadow or plain
  Fills the shadows and windy places
  With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Mother, Spring, Winter

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled in the grass apart, A sodden thing bedrenched by tears and rain.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Breakup, Sweet, Lying

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Today is the day when bold kites fly,
  When cumulus clouds roar across the sky.
  When robins return, when children cheer,
  When light rain beckons spring to appear.
  
  Today is the day when daffodils bloom,
  Which children pick to fill the room,
  Today is the day when grasses green,
  When leaves burst forth for spring to be seen.

  Robert McCracken

  Cheer, Children, Spring

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• Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil wearisome; lift up our hearts, O God, to the things worthwhile-sunshine and night, the dripping rain, the song of the birds, books and music, and the voices of our friends. Lift up our hearts to these this night and grant us Thy peace. Amen.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Song, Spring, Father

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

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• The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.

  Helen Wills

  Finals, Wimbledon, Moments

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• To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

  Virginia Woolf

  Freedom, Order, Single Rose

  Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee (2000). “A room of one's own and other essays”

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• Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.

  Nelson Mandela

  Night, Light, Rivers

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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• To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Rivers, Water, Soul

  Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

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• The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

  Charles Kuralt

  Illinois, Years, Two

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• The river Rhine, it is well known,
  Doth wash your city of Cologne;
  But tell me, nymphs! what power divine
  Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Cities, Rivers, Nymphs

  1828 'Cologne', first published in Friendship's Offering (1834), as 'Lightheartedness in Rhyme', no.4.

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• If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants, keeping up its moisture content and gauging its need, the garden will get on very well.

  Henry Beston

  Garden, Thinking, Rivers

  Henry Beston, Roger B. Swain (2001). “Herbs and the Earth”, p.123, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, or on the land. Because the physical and chemical properties of water are well suited to the requirements of life, it is no accident that life is a water-based phenomenon.

  Robert E. Lee

  Ocean, Lakes, Land

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• Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

  Walter Raleigh

  Music, Passion, Rivers

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1751). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch”, p.394

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• Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Mirrors, Sky, Names

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• Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.

  Scott Sanders

  Ocean, Islands, Rivers

  Scott Russell Sanders (1997). “Writing from the Center”, p.142, Indiana University Press

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