Thunder Quotes

• I go where the sound of thunder is.

  Alfred M. Gray

  Military, Sound

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• It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

  Frederick Douglass

  Fire, Light, Earthquakes

  Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 5 July 1852

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• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Letter to HenryW. Ruoff, 28 Aug. 1908

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• The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Dark, Shoes, Communism

  "Hammarskjöld". Book by Brian Urquhart, 1972.

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• Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Rain, Wind, Religion

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• On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Play, Dawn, Come Up

  "Mandalay" st. 1 (1892)

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• They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

  Clint Eastwood

  Funny, Sarcastic, Heaven

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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• We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Nature, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.205, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Who I Am, Knows

  "Fictional character: Kirk Lazarus". "Tropic Thunder", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

  Harriet Tubman

  Rain, Fall, Gun

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• We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rain, Clouds, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.205, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  Eden Ahbez

  Rain, Wind, Heaven

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• Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

  Eubie Blake

  Hate, Grateful, Good Luck

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• As the dawn comes up like thunder.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Morning, Dawn, Come Up

  "Mandalay" st. 1 (1892)

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• Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Rain, Wind, Sky

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

  Neal Schon

  Acoustics, Closest

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• Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Weather, Together

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• The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

  Hugh Sidey

  Presidential, Campaigns, Dry

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• God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Stars, Ocean, Son

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• Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

  Thomas Mann

  Wisdom, New Year, Time

  'The Magic Mountain' (1924) ch. 4, sect. 4 (translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter)

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• The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

  Jim Elliot

  Wind, Sound, Gentle

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• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Leadership, Hope, Encouragement

  "History of Logan County and Ohio" by O.L. Baskin, (p. 577), 1880.

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• Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Philosophical, Sound

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• Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Integrity, Patriotic

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The preface. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond. An opera. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. An essay of Virgil's Georgics. Cato. A tragedy. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Three setts of medals illustrated by the ancient poets, in the foregoing dialogues”, p.278

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