Rainbow Quotes - Page 16

• The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Beautiful, Memories, Heart

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1859). “Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented”, p.146

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• Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring and the flowering of life. The Goddess manifests as the May Queen and Flora. The God emerges as the May King and Jack in the Green. The danced Maypole represents Their unity, with the pole itself being the God and the ribbons that encompass it, the Goddess. Colors are the Rainbow spectrum. Beltane is a festival of flowers, fertility, sensuality, and delight.

  Selena Fox

  Kings, Queens, Spring

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• Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’ How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

  Stan Brakhage

  Baby, Adventure, Eye

  Philip Taaffe, Stan Brakhage (1998). “Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan Brakhage”, Blumarts

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• Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.

  William Benton Clulow

  Errors, Color, Sometimes

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.102

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• Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona-a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality.

  Jack Donovan

  Philosophical, Gay, Political

  "Anrophilia: A Manifesto: Rejecting the Gay Identity, Reclaiming Masculinity". Book by Jack Donovan, 2006.

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• Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.

  Johnny Vander Meer

  Baseball, Kids, Chasing Rainbows

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• Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

  Neil Peart

  Change, Freedom, Clouds

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• A man of many seasons and many rainbows - there are so many dimensions of celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Celebration, Seasons

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• Your ego may be just a soap bubble. Maybe for a few seconds it will remain, rising higher in the air. Perhaps for a few seconds it may have a rainbow, but it is only for a few seconds. In this infinite and eternal existence your egos go on bursting every moment. It is better not to have any attachment with soap bubbles.

  Rajneesh

  Air, Attachment, Ego

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• We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Lying, Hands, Riches

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• We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them

  Diane Ravitch

  Gold, Pot, Ends

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.15, Basic Books

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• As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.

  Judy Garland

  Dream, Eye, People

  "Over the Rainbow : The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America". Book by Paul Nathanson, 1991.

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• Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.

  Kim Stanley

  Clouds, Light, Rocks

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• I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Black Books". www.imdb.com. 2000–2004.

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• For an actor who has the ability to take a chance, which may make him look like a fool, but may end in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow so to speak. So you have to take chances to be a bit dangerous and a bit silly every now and then and playful.

  Max Irons

  Silly, Gold, Looks

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• As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

  Kate Atkinson

  Clouds, Sky, Snow

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.170, Macmillan

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• Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.

  Christopher Morley

  Philosophy, Rain, People

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• I caught a tremendous fish
  and held him beside the boat
  half out of water, with my hook
  fast in a corner of his mouth.
  He didn't fight.
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  I stared and stared
  and victory filled up
  the little rented boat
  from the pool of bilge
  where oil had spread a rainbow
  around the rusted engine
  to the bailer rusted orange,
  the sun-cracked thwarts
  the oarlocks on their strings,
  the gunnels-until everything
  was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
  And I let the fish go.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Fighting, Orange, Filled Up

  "The Fish" l. 74 (1946)

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• Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow, signaling the later days of autumn.

  Dan Millman

  Autumn, Blow, Wind

  Dan Millman (1995). “The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose”, p.418, H J Kramer

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• There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow more precious than a pot of gold.

  Gary Gulman

  Kissing, Gold, Pot

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• We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain? Being grateful in times of distress does not mean that we are pleased with our circumstances. It does mean that through the eyes of faith we look beyond our present-day challenges. This is not a gratitude of the lips but of the soul. It is a gratitude that heals the heart and expands the mind.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Grateful, Rain

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• I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Book, Writing

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• In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can't scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. Future scientists will call it the Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I'd say that mine has been a way-long case history of chasing rainbows.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Couple, Best Effort, Chasing Rainbows

  "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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• He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Color, Majority, Gowns

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• I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.

  Jon Hamm

  Summer, Dad, Winter

  "Jon Hamm Is a Capital-M Man" by Alex Postman, www.elle.com. August 21, 2009.

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