Weather Quotes - Page 10

• In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Inspiration, Doors

  Mark Twain (2008). “Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World: Easyread Edition”, p.165, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Within all of us there is a storm. Some believe it will never end: but he who has faith in the heavens above will weather any storm.

  R. Kelly

  Religious, Believe, Heaven

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• The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Morning, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.187

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• The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wind, Tyrants, East

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1330, e-artnow

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• Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have both pleasure and pain, when you have both winter and summer, day and night. When you have both sadness and happiness, discomfort and comfort. Life moves between these two polarities. Moving between these two polarities you learn how to balance. Between these two wings you learn how to fly to the farthest star.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Summer, Stars

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• We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Freedom, Speech, Seems

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

  Alfred Polgar

  Life, Men, Waiting

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• The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's still exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather--all pervasive and so virtually impossible to escape. Still, we can try.

  Michael Pollan

  Trying, Quality, Culture

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.28, Penguin

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• Normally you have news, weather and travel.....but not on snow day, on snow day news is weather is travel.

  Michael McIntyre

  Witty, Snow, News

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• My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there-and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses.

  Karen Russell

  Summer, Rain, Sleep

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• The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Today, Resignation, Angry

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

  Truman Capote

  Summer, Heart, Cities

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• Even the weather seemed to be celebrating; as June approached, the days became cloudless and sultry, and all anybody felt like doing was strolling onto the grounds and flopping down on the grass with several pints of iced pumpkin juice, perhaps playing a casual game of Gobstones or watching the giant squid propel itself dreamily across the surface of the lake.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lakes, June, Games

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• All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beautiful, Summer, Memories

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.1012, e-artnow

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• One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Knowing, Born, Converses

  Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Dark Road to Darjeeling”, p.69, MIRA

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• It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Degrees, Mississippi, Nations

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• At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai. His ears were so big he could use them for a raincoat. When it rained, he just crept in under his ears and was warm and snug as could be. Not that the ears had such a rattling good time of it, you understand. If it was specially bad weather, he'd invite friends and acquaintances to pitch camp under his ears too. There they sat, singing their sorrowful songs while it poured down outside.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Country, Song, Singing

  Astrid Lindgren (2015). “Pippi Longstocking”, p.33, Oxford University Press - Children

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• He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Sunshine, Made

  Mark Twain (2008). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.98, Penguin

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• It was like I was inside a fishbowl in the middle of a typhoon, and everyone else was on the outside cluelessly enjoying lovely weather.

  P. C. Cast

  Lovely, Middle, Typhoons

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.328, Macmillan

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• How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It")

  Mark Strand

  Past, Fire, Long Ago

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.434, Knopf

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• The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightning, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

  Maureen Johnson

  Hockey, Fighting, Winning

  "The Name of the Star (The Shades of London)". Book by Maureen Johnson, September 29, 2011.

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• In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Future, Past

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average.

  Stephen Hawking

  Average, Giving, Six Months

  "Predicting the Future". Book by Leo Howe and Alan Wain, 1993.

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• We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

  Mark Twain

  Stars, Night, Drifting Off

  Mark Twain (2010). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Only Authoritative Text Based on the Complete, Original Manuscript”, p.78, Univ of California Press

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• How little we have, I thought, between us and the waiting cold, the mystery, death--a strip of beach, a hill, a few walls of wood or stone, a little fire--and tomorrow's sun, rising and warming us, tomorrow's hope of peace and better weather . . . What if tomorrow vanished in the storm? What if time stood still? And yesterday--if once we lost our way, blundered in the storm--would we find yesterday again ahead of us, where we had thought tomorrow's sun would rise?

  Robert Nathan

  Beach, Wall, Fire

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