Weather Quotes - Page 10

• When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Reality, Complaining, Murmuring

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.48, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

  Roald Dahl

  Apples, Pie, Giving

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.42, Penguin

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• The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ocean, Heart, Sadness

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• There are many changes in the weather of a day.

  Pema Chodron

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.147, Shambhala Publications

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• Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Naps, Had Enough, Time Of Day

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.104, Macmillan

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• When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Stars, Confused

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• Lena Smoothed her hair. "Crazy weather you have down here.

  Kami Garcia

  Crazy, Hair

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.253, Penguin UK

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• always thought of myself as a loving person. But she was right. I had been a fair-weather friend. As long as she was happy and nice, I loved back. But if she was unhappy or upset, I would feel blamed and then argue or distance myself

  John Gray

  Nice, Distance, Long

  John Gray (2012). “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories. My mother urges me to write them down because, "You're the last of the Markhams, my love." So I record dates and journeys and personalities and traits and heroes and losers and weaknesses and strengths and I try to capture every one of those people because one day I'll need what they had to offer.

  Melina Marchetta

  Summer, Mother, Laughter

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• It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt.

  John Flanagan

  Salt, Beaten, Cheeks

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• I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  People, Taste, Kind

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

  Ian Mcewan

  Views, People, Parent

  Christopher Hampton, Ian McEwan (2008). “Atonement: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• Can you believe the weather?'...'Actually, I CAN believe the weather. What I can't believe is that I'm actually having a conversation about the weather.

  Maria Semple

  Believe, Conversation, I Can

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• As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Family, Christmas, Struggle

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• This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong ; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, tho' in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Distance, Men, Fog

  "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin".

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• We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Religion, Loyal

  Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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• We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Men

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• Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Christmas, Struggle, Caring

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• Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

  John Masefield

  Two, Sailing, Capes

  "A Tarpaulin Muster".

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• Jolly boating weather,
  And a hay harvest breeze,
  Blade on the feather,
  Shade off the trees.

  William Johnson Cory

  Tree, Hay, Shade

  'Eton Boating Song' in 'Eton Scrap Book' (1865). E. Parker 'Floreat' (1923) p. 109

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• May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Strong, Athlete

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• Hark, I hear a robin calling!
  List, the wind is from the south!
  And the orchard-bloom is falling
  Sweet as kisses on the mouth.
  
  In the dreamy vale of beeches
  Fair and faint is woven mist,
  And the river's orient reaches
  Are the palest amethyst.
  
  Every limpid brook is singing
  Of the lure of April days;
  Every piney glen is ringing
  With the maddest roundelays.
  
  Come and let us seek together
  Springtime lore of daffodils,
  Giving to the golden weather
  Greeting on the sun-warm hills.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sweet, Spring, Fall

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery (Illustrated)”, p.6137, Delphi Classics

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• Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
  Their snow-white blossoms on my head,
  With brightest sunshine round me spread
  Of spring's unclouded weather,
  In this sequestered nook how sweet
  To sit upon my orchard-seat!
  And birds and flowers once more to greet,
  My last year's friends together.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

  William Wordsworth (2008). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, In: 1801-1805”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, June, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (1981). “Journal”, p.204, Princeton University Press

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• It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.

  Harry S. Truman

  Humility, Funeral, Cows

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