Rainy Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

  Hosea Ballou

  Inspirational, Summer, Rain

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• I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

  Tim O'Brien

  Life, Happy Endings, Survived

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Rainy Day, Learned Person, Forget Everything

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• I was a coward. I went to the war.

  Tim O'Brien

  War, Coward, Cowardice

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Drink deeply from good books.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Book, Ucla

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2009). “Coach Wooden One-On-One”, p.43, Revell

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• You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.

  Steve Jobs

  Hero, Rainy Day, Forget Everything

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Rain, Adventure

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.49

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• The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Reading, Rainy Day, Pity

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• The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Funny, Time, Money

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• Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

  Susan Ertz

  Inspirational, Death, Sunday

  Anger in the Sky ch. 5 (1943)

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• Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

  William Feather

  Positive, Rain, Learning

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Rain, Sunshine

  "Inner Journey". Book by Ratna Joshi (p. 99), January 14, 2010.

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• Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

  Saint Basil

  Rain, Fall, Men

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• The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Rain, Struggle

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1906). “Longfellow Day by Day”

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• And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Rain

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  The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

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• Don't like small talk, love rainy days.

  Melissa Gilbert

  Rain, Rainy Day, Small Talk

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• Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  "Stray Birds". Book by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

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• The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

  Sherwood Smith

  Rain, Passion, Tangled

  Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.

  Andrew L. Lewis, Jr.

  Cancer, Rain, Smoking

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• Every storm runs, runs out of rain

  Gary Allan

  Running, Rain, Storm

  "Song: 'Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain)'". 2013.

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• I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rain, 4th Of July, Men

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1733

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

  Paul Verlaine

  Rain, Fall, Heart

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

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