Rain Quotes - page 3

Man's own form in space – his body – was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery – because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy. (Willem de Kooning)
I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood – what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain. View quote
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain. View quote
George Carlin
Be still, sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds is the sun still shining Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health. View quote
Chinua Achebe
I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is. View quote
David Hockney
My shoes are clean from walking in the rain. View quote
Jack Kerouac
When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough. View quote
Robert Jordan
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. View quote
William Carlos Williams
Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city. View quote
William Carlos Williams
The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed. (William Morris)
I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong. View quote
Karen Blixen
Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then. View quote
Garrison Keillor
His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines. View quote
William Gibson
The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain "-that is dogmatic. "I think it will rain"-that is natural and modest. Montaigne is the most delightful of essayists because so great is his humility that he does not think it important that we see not Montaigne. He so forgets himself that he employs no artifice to make us forget him. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed. View quote
Kristin Kreuk
Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood, The one-armed man his jointed wooden arm. The blinded man sees with his ears and hands As much or more than once with both his eyes. View quote
Robert Graves
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain. View quote
André Maurois
But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house. View quote
Anne Tyler
To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man-even a fellow man striving to do the same to you-creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was. (Robert Charles Wilson)
The weed crushed and pressed by the heavy rock may slowly and gently grow up anew helped by the fresh air, sunshine, and sympathetic rain. On the other hand, the rock is often broken through exposure to nature and weathering. Life is a strong power to grow in tenderness; this fact may be considered as having a close relation with human life. At the same time tenderness has sometimes stronger power against stiffness or hardening due to extreme strain. View quote
Kyuzo Mifune
Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain? View quote
Alan Lightman
Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present? View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day's journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed. View quote
Herodotus