Rainbow Quotes - Page 4

• My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Men, Sky

  "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold" l. 1 (1807). Wordsworth also used the last three lines as the epigraph for his poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1807). See Milton 43

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• And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.

  John Buchan

  Fall, Lakes, Sight

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• Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Clouds, Saying Thank You

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• What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Teacher, Laughter

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

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• Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?

  Herman Melville

  Nature, Orange, Lines

  1891 Billy Budd, Foretopman (first published1924), ch.21.

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• Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Blessing, Holiness, Sometimes

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• I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

  Frank Capra

  Children, Rain, Fall

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

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• Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

  Robert Southey

  Sky, Lovely, Promise

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.108

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• Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

  Carl Sandburg

  Poetry, Going Away, Scripts

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light, And hastening on with eager intent, Arrive at the rainbow's end, And here uncover the pot of gold Buried deep in the heart of a friend.

  Grace Coolidge

  Dream, Heart, Night

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• Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the city. I have created a space which virtually erases the boundaries between inside and outside – where people become a little uncertain as to whether they have stepped into a work or into a part of the museum. This uncertainty is important to me, as it encourages people to think and sense beyond the limits within which they are accustomed to moving.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Moving, Thinking, Museums

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• God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.

  Ralph Hodgson

  Sea, God Love, Idle

  Ralph Hodgson, “Reason Has Moons”

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• What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Body, Madmen

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

  Dolly Parton

  Rain, Waiting, Way

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• Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

  Robert Motherwell

  Beauty, Uplifting, Song

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• Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Beautiful, Country, Tree

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Beautiful, Love You, Color

  Song: True Colors, Album: True Colors, 1986

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• Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it

  Amit Ray

  Light, Challenges, Conquer

  Amit Ray, Banani Ray (2014). “World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird”, p.151, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

  Yip Harburg

  Flying, Littles, Pilots

  Song: Over the Rainbow

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• Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.

  Barbara Walters

  Airplane, Clouds, Literature

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• Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Fate, Reflection

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.41, Vintage

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• Don't you expect a rainbow coming out of the tub of bacon strips at the end of the buffet line?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Lines, Tubs, Buffets

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• Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye From thee takes timely warning. Nor trusts the gorgeous sky.

  John Keble

  Morning, Eye, Pride

  John Keble (1874). “The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year”, p.189

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• If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Way, Speak, Imagine

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• We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity — a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Heart, Black And White, People

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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