Rainbow Quotes - Page 18

• If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.

  James A. Baldwin

  Song, Time, Fire

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• After a sleepless night the body gets weaker, It becomes dear and not yours - and nobody's. Just like a seraph you smile to people And arrows moan in the slow arteries. After a sleepless night the arms get weaker And deeply equal to you are the friend and foe. Smells like Florence in the frost, and in each Sudden sound is the whole rainbow. Tenderly light the lips, and the shadow's golden Near the sunken eyes. Here the night has sparked This brilliant likeness - and from the dark night Only just one thing - the eyes - are growing dark.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Eye, Dark, Night

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• In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow.

  Papiya Ghosh

  Beautiful, Children, Attitude

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• I'm here to help you notice the rainbow.

  Greyson Chance

  Helping

  Song: Waiting Outside The Lines, Album: Hold On Til The Night, 2010

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• Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow 'burn their toast a lot,' said Pooh

  Benjamin Hoff

  Thinking, Things In Life, Said

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• Striding tall through Lauren St John's gorgeously written memoir is her father, and chapter after chapter their relationship is untangled and celebrated. Joy and a hunger for life infuse this book -- whether St John is writing about the harrowing years of Rhodesia's civil war, her childhood adventures in the bush, or the breaking apart of her family. Rainbow's End is a most generous and wise book.

  Lisa Fugard

  Wise, Father, War

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• Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.

  Betty Dravis

  Book, Writing, Marketing

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• Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, only to be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it’s important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Fall, Thinking, Azaleas

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• I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Tyrants, Feelings

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• When you look at the whole package of energy, the food you eat should match the story you want to live, which means: as fresh as possible, without dullness, repetition, and routine. As colorful as possible, giving delight to the eyes; food is a rainbow brought down to earth. As cheerful as possible, maximizing moments of happiness and pleasure.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Eye, Giving

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• At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Gold, World, Reason

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.

  Salman Rushdie

  Color, Saws, Fracture

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• A gush of bird song, a patter of dew
  A cloud and a rainbow's warning;
  Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue
  An April day in the morning!

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

  Song, Morning, Spring

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1882). “Poems”

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• In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can't scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. Future scientists will call it the Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I'd say that mine has been a way-long case history of chasing rainbows.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Couple, Best Effort, Chasing Rainbows

  "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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• He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Color, Majority, Gowns

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• Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

  Lady Gaga

  Angel, Watches, Swallowing

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Feb 24, 2010

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• ...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

  Steve Toltz

  Kitsch, Ifs

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• The rainbow in place of the unicorn? Why didn't God just restore the unicorn? We animals would have been happier with that, instead of a big hint in the sky about God's magnanimity every time it stopped raining.

  Julian Barnes

  Rain, Animal, Sky

  Julian Barnes (2010). “A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters”, p.28, Random House

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• The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Horny, Riding, Ships

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.

  Vincent Starrett

  Journey, Gold, Quests

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• Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

  Henri Matisse

  Simple, Color, Feelings

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• The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people goin' by I see friends shaking hands saying, "How do you do" They're really saying "I love you." I hear babies cry, I watch then grow They'll learn much more than I'll ever know; And I think to myself, What a wonderful world; Yes, I think to myself, What a wonderful world. Oh yeah!

  Louis Armstrong

  Baby, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain?

  Robert D. Hales

  Rain, Grateful, Thinking

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• Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What?s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow weather map is just another example of the homometerological agenda.

  Stephen Colbert

  Blue, Weather, Usa

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• In Isleta the rainbow was a crack in the universe. We saw the barest of all life that is possible. Bright horses rolled over and over the dusking sky.

  Joy Harjo

  Horse, Sky, Cracks

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