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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• And thou, all-shaking thunder,
  Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
  Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once
  That makes ingrateful man!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Vaunt, Cracks

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Musical, Discord

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [118]

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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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• 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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• Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years.

  John Badham

  Thinking, Blue, Years

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

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Philosophical, Sound

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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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• 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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• 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 sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.

  Ogden Nash

  Sky, Lovely, Ink

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Men, May, Grasshoppers

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.272

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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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• The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is sure to call them.

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Running, Kings, Men

  James Sheridan Knowles (1856). “Dramatic Works: Caius Gracchus. Virginius. William Tell. Alfred the Great; or, The patriot king. The hunchback. The wife; a tale of Mantua. The beggar of Bethnal Green. The daughter”, p.305

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• To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.

  William Shakespeare

  Lightning, Nimble, Crosses

  William Shakespeare (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.106

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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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• In winter, when the dismal rain
  Comes down in slanting lines,
  And Wind, that grand old harper, smote
  His thunder-harp of pines.

  Alexander Smith

  Rain, Winter, Wind

  Alexander Smith (1858). “A Life-drama, and Other Poems”, p.20

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