Rainstorms Quotes

• Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Glasses, Air

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Rain, Opportunity

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.158, Ballantine Books

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• There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt.

  Beryl Markham

  Morning, Mean, Sleep

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life, Running, Wisdom

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.38, Kodansha International

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• You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

  Dave Barry

  Cute, Birthday, Teenage

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• Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Umbrella, Throwing, Continuing

  "Shelby County v. Holder". Dissenting, United States Supreme Court case, 2013.

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• Get out of your house in the middle of a rainstorm, get soaked in it, and then strip down-to nothing but a smile.

  Perry Brass

  House, Middle

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.26, Perry Brass

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• You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

  Larry Page

  Track, Worms, Feels

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• Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.

  Jeannette Walls

  Morning, Horse, Lakes

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.

  Joseph Pilates

  Water, Doe, Pilates

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• . . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that would make the licking of toads illegal; Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson. You read these things and you think to yourself that realism may not be the best medium through which to express the real world.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Self, Years, Payment

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• I've had people say to me, 'Look at the sky, the fields, the ocean, the beautiful sunset. Isn't that proof positive of God?' Following that line of thought, look at the magnificent rainbows after a big rainstorm. Isn't that proof positive that God is gay?

  Ray Romano

  Beautiful, God, Ocean

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• I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!

  Dave Haywood

  Party, Beer, Fields

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• How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in your footsteps. It is the face in the mirror, the light of the sun, the winter rainstorms, the heat of summer in the city

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Summer, Running

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• There's nothing worse than sleeping in makeup. You wake up looking like a painting that's been left out in a rainstorm.

  Nina Dobrev

  Sleep, Makeup, Wake Up

  "Nina Dobrev ‘Glamour’ Interview: Star Talks ‘Vampire Diaries,’ Beauty And Ian Somerhalder", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2012.

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• As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.

  David Deida

  Choices, Bird, Feelings

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• What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given—it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

  Donald Miller

  Children, Moving, Sunset

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.

  Joni Mitchell

  Animal, Color, Vegetables

  "It's a Joni Mitchell concert, sans Joni" by Matt Diehl, articles.latimes.com. April 22, 2010.

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• Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right way? I think not. After all, do we fault a pilot for being narrow-minded when he follows the instrument panel while landing in a rainstorm? No, we want him to remain narrowly focused!

  Billy Graham

  Thinking, Arrogance, Want

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.304, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.

  Gene Kelly

  Dream, Running, Song

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• I got a smile that'll make the mirror crack,
  And I seem to stay under clouds that's pitch black.
  So when it rains, it pours, and when it pours, I'm soaked.
  I contracted lung cancer from third hand smoke,
  And I'm like the frog that's dying to be a prince,
  The boy who cried wolf and no one was convinced.
  The man who hit lotto and lost his ticket,
  In a rainstorm...and struck by lightning trying to get it.

  GZA

  Cancer, Rain, Rap

  Song: Life Is a Movie

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• In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Errors, Skills

  1997 Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 27, 1998.

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• On Max Yasgur’s six hundred acres, everyone dropped their defenses and became a huge extended family. Joining together, getting into the music and each other, being part of so many people when calamity struck — the traffic jams, the rainstorms — was a life-changing experience. None of the problems damaged our spirit. In fact, they drew us closer. We recognized one another for what we were at the core, as brothers and sisters, and we embraced one another in that knowledge.

  Michael Lang

  Brother, Life Changing, People

  Michael Lang (2009). “The Road to Woodstock”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”

  Donald Miller

  Sunset, Mean, Dark

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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