Rain Quotes - Page 5

• In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.

  Yosa Buson

  Spring, Rivers, Water

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• My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Beautiful, Fall

  Robert Frost (2004). “A Boy's Will”, p.13, 1st World Publishing

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• I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
  And whiten the green plains under;
  And then again I dissolve it in rain,
  And laugh as I pass in thunder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Laughter, Clouds, Rivers

  1819 'The Cloud'.

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• Tears fall in my heart
  As tears fall on the town.

  Paul Verlaine

  Fall, Heart, Tears

  "The Sky Above the Roof: Fifty-six Poems".

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• After the rain cometh the fair weather.

  Aesop

  Weather, After The Rain, Fairs

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• How it pours, pours, pours,
  In a never-ending sheet!
  How it drives beneath the doors!
  How it soaks the passer's feet!
  How it rattles on the shutter!
  How it rumples up the lawn!
  How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter,
  From darkness until dawn.

  Rossiter Johnson

  Doors, Rivers, Feet

  Rossiter Johnson (1902). “Morning Lights and Evening Shadows”

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• Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

  Dwight Morrow

  Forgiveness, Party, Humility

  Speech, 10 Oct. 1930

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• But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Rivers, Water

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [401]

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• After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour

  Ellen Glasgow

  Bars, Golden, Sun

  Ellen Glasgow (2008). “Life and Gabriella (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Book, Clouds, Flying

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829). “Fugitive Poetry”, p.21

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• All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

  Alexander Pope

  Flower, Sky, Bird

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• Hard rain falls in every season. Sometimes it can beat you down; you have to try to learn how to take sustenance from it to grow.

  Regina Taylor

  Fall, Trying, Sometimes

  "Golden Globe and NAACP Image Award winner Regina Taylor: Living a creative life". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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  Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Winning

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Running, Believe, Romance

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• The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.

  Douglas Coupland

  Life, Fall, Healing

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “LIFE AFTER GOD”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Life, Success, Good Night

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.77, Oxford University Press

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• I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.

  Johnny Nash

  Fear, Gone, Dark Clouds

  Song: I Can See Clearly Now, Album: I Can See Clearly Now

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• Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

  Edmund Waller

  Shepherds, Sailor, Poor

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.68

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• We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed
  The white of their leaves, the amber grain
  Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now
  Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Wind, Rivers, White

  Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.24

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• My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.

  Tom Robbins

  People, Joy, Suffering

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• Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain.

  Jack Gilbert

  Yellow, Long, People

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• I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

  David Copperfield

  People, Waiting, Asking

  "Britney Spears' NYC restaurant opening" by Party Hopper, www.cnn.com. June 28, 2002.

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• You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Inspiration, Mlb

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• Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Food, Clouds, Rivers

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Men, Weather

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1733

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