Rain Quotes - Page 39

• We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, War, Ignorance

  "Nobel Prize for Peace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 25, 1991.

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• My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming from a certain direction and wind was coming from another, what was the best thing to do? The right answer was, "Run like hell and pray for rain," but few students ever got it. So allow yourself the freedom of knowing there are times to bail out, quit, run, leave the struggle, and have more time for joy.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Letting Go, Running, Father

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• Every day after lunch when I was writing my first book, I'd nibble a square of fine chocolate and meditate on all that had gone into its creation: the sun and rain that spilled on the cocoa plant, the soil that nourished it, the hands that picked the beans, and so on. My taste of chocolate became a lesson on the interconnectedness of things, and the infinite blessings for which I am grateful.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Book, Grateful, Writing

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• When I'm lost in the rain, In your eyes I know I'll find the light to light my way And when I'm scared, losing ground When my world is going crazy You can turn it all around and when I'm down you're there Pushing me to the top You're always there, giving me all you've got

  Christina Aguilera

  Crazy, Eye, Light

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• Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a bag, but their supply of sugar is not the amount in the bag. When you come to a grocer, he has sugar in abundance. But he sees how much money you have brought and gives accordingly. Your currency on this Path is resolution and faith, and you are taught according to your resolution and faith. When you come seeking sugar, they examine your bag to see what its capacity is; then they measure out accordingly.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Giving

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• Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?

  Jessica Dubroff

  Dying, Famous Last Words, Last Words

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• Surfers are in tune with the weather because if there's a storm coming, there are waves coming. I love the rain.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Weather, Storm

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• Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.

  David Gilmour

  Running, Monday, Lying

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• The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a midday rain, or scented with pinon pine. The air is precious to the red man, for all things are the same breath - the animals, the trees, the man.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Men, Animal

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• Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.

  James Hansen

  Stress, Ocean, Home

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• The solution to our water problems is more rain.

  Mark Twain

  Water, Problem, Solutions

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• The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Eye, Night

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.209, Random House

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• I could kiss you in the rain forever
  Turn all your pain to pleasure
  Fill up all your days with sunlight
  Make the passion last every night
  Give you my every possesion
  Make you my only obsession
  Climb up to the sky and pull down all the stars above
  But I could never love you enough

  Chely Wright

  Country, Song, Stars

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• And I don't regret the rain
  Or the nights I felt the pain
  Or the tears I had to cry
  Some of those times along the way.
  Every road I had to take,
  Every time my heart would break,
  It was just something that I had to get through,
  To get me to you.

  Lila McCann

  Music, Pain, Regret

  Song: To Get Me to You

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• It ain't the rain, the snow, the boss, the competition, the spouse, the money, the car, the job, or the kids - it's you! And it always has been.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Jobs, Positive Thinking, Kids

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• Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for the end of the accursed war, for unification. This striving of the workers for unification is the greatest factor in world history.

  Grigory Zinoviev

  War, Long, World

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• I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can Perhaps I may become a highwayman again Or I may simply be a single drop of rain But I will remain And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again...

  Jimmy Webb

  May, Spirit, Reincarnation

  Song: Highwayman, 1996

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• The surtax payers, having been soaked, have found a way to get out of the rain.

  James Callaghan

  Way, Economics, Found

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• Climate has always changed year on year and is unstoppable as a phenomenon. I am sceptical of the 'evidence' being presented as fact and do NOT believe that the interference by Government will have much affect on changing temperatures or rainfall. Indeed as a gardener in the West of Scotland I look forward to warmer temperatures and more rain so will be doing nothing as an individual that can in any event be seen as tokenism to a perceived problem.

  Brian Donohoe

  Believe, Government, Years

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• Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

  Leonard Cohen

  Nature, Filters, Longing

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.30, McClelland & Stewart

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• God, make me brave for life: oh, braver than this. Let me straighten after pain, As a tree straightens after the rain, Shining and lovely again. God, make me brave for life; much braver than this. As the blown grass lifts, let me rise From sorrow with quiet eyes, Knowing Thy way is wise. God, make me brave, life brings Such blinding things. Help me to keep my sight; Help me to see aright That out of dark comes light.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Wise, Pain, Eye

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• Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain.
  Joy wouldn't feel so good, if it wasn't for pain.
  Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard;
  It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred.

  Curtis Jackson

  Pain, Life Is Hard, Hip Hop

  "Song: 'Many Men (Wish Death)'". 2003.

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• At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

  Chico Mendes

  Fighting, Tree, Humanity

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• ...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

  Rachel Field

  Horse, Fall

  Rachel Field (1934). “Branches Green”

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• Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one billion people starve while another billion have excess. It would be more efficient to distribute resources so that at least vital needs were met everywhere. Otherwise, for example, if kids are starving somewhere, dad goes out to slash and burn the rain forest to feed them - and so would I if my kids were dying. And this kind of destruction is everyone's problem, because we live in the same ecosphere.

  Karl-Henrik Robert

  Inspiring, Dad, Kids

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