Thunder Quotes - Page 8

• The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.

  E. V. Lucas

  Food, July, Noise

  Lucas, E. V. (2014). “Fireside and Sunshine”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

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• I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

  Mark Twain

  Media, Talking, Community

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”

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• Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

  Elton John

  Children, Sadness, Laughing

  Song: I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

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• I am fascinated by revolution. I am completely absorbed by it. I am crazed, am obsessed by the romanticism... . Revolution surges, flashes, thunders in almost every corner of the earth... . Brothers and sisters, keep fanning the flames of the leaping fire. ... Let us become logs to feed the flames of revolution.

  Sukarno

  Brother, Fire, Flames

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• A sound like a sound of thunder rolled,
  And the heart of a nation stirred

  William Ross Wallace

  Heart, Liberty, Sound

  William Ross Wallace (1851). “Meditations in America, and Other Poems”, p.37

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• Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry, so arid, so hard; this rock which thou hast struck a second time, will not resist thee any longer, for out of it there now gushes healthful waters in abundance. The selfsame voice of God which overturns the mountains, thunders, lightens, and divides the heaven above, now commands the clouds to pour forth showers of blessings, changing the desert of his soul into a field producing a hundredfold; that voice I hear.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  God, Eye, Heart

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• In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Self, Triumph

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.25, Harvard University Press

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• O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Sleep, Voice

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.89, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

  Edmund Waller

  May, Pay, Satire

  Edmund Waller (1806). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller ...”, p.105

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• By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Believe, Mean

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Light, Flames, Hatred

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• I am a being of Heaven and Earth,of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies, of the suns and the stars and the void through which they travel. The essence of nature, eternal, divine that all men seek to know to hear, known as the great illusion time, and the all-prevailing atmosphere. And now you know my background.

  Eden Ahbez

  Rain, Men, Wind

  Tape recording to Joe Romersa, 1992.

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• ...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

  John Muir

  Fall, Good Luck, Sky

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.225, Library of America

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• When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a force greater than himself. Similarly he saw a supernatural force in the rain, and in the various other changes in nature.

  Emma Goldman

  Rain, Men, Supernatural Forces

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.97, Library of Alexandria

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• With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Sight, Smell, Joy

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.284

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• There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become, the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap up all in doubt, and there is a stern voice that will thunder at last out of the wilderness upon your dream.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Dream, Voice, Feelings

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.109

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• So God stepped over to the edge of the world And He spat out the seven seas; He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed; He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled; And the waters above the earth came down, The cooling waters came down.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Eye, Hands, Sea

  James Weldon Johnson (2000). “Complete Poems”, p.16, Penguin

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• The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.

  George D. Prentice

  War, Rivers, Air

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• the streams buck like rams in a tent / whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed /shadows of the shepherds. /black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. / thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. / wings brush against flowers. / fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar.

  Hans Arp

  Spring, Flower, Fall

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• Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Song, Fun

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.113

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• Lightning my pilot sits; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits; Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion, This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea; Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills, Over the lakes and the plains, Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream The Spirit he loves remains; And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Rain, Ocean

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.259

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• A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, "It lightens and it thunders ," is conjunctive, "It lightens or it thunders" is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician .

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Taken, Example, May

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1982). “Writings of Charles S. Peirce: 1857-1866”, p.268, Indiana University Press

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• I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.

  Brigham Young

  Beautiful, Sweet, Rain

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.222

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• The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world, rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds! Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on! Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky! Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene, the unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck; and ever stronger as the storms advance, firm through the closing ruin holds is way, when nature calls him to the destin'd goal.

  Mark Akenside

  Fate, Blow, Fire

  Mark Akenside, “The Pleasures Of Imagination: Book The Second”

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• Hence when lightning fires the arch of heaven, and thunders rock the ground, when furious whirlwinds rend the howling air, and ocean, groaning from his lowest bed, heaves his tempestuous billows to the sky; amid the mighty uproar, while below the nations tremble, Shakespeare looks abroad from some high cliff, superior, and enjoys the elemental war.

  Mark Akenside

  War, Ocean, Fire

  Mark Akenside (1808). “The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside ...: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.91

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