Weather Quotes - Page 4

• If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Summer, Humor

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• Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kind, Barometer, Instruments

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.23, University of Georgia Press

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• Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

  Morgan Freeman

  Drinking, Struggle, Alcohol

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• An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

  Washington Irving

  Attitude, Sea, Oil

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.263, Penguin

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• Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Marriage, Wind, Connections

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• We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Education, Cutting

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• There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Summer, Depressing, Rainy Day

  Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.9, Macmillan

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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• After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

  John Hartford

  Sunset, Thinking, Mechanic

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• In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

  Terry Brooks

  Cutting, Drawing, Creating

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• Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

  Piers Corbyn

  Climate, Limits, Computer

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• Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Light, Wind, Important

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• Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.

  Laurel Clark

  Ocean, Space, Understanding

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• Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Grey, Hard

  'Ode to the North-East Wind'

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• There's a plane flying over me and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.

  Ellen MacArthur

  Worry, Flying, Relax

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• The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.

  David Letterman

  Dog, Confused, Spring

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• Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Doors, Movement, Literature

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• Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.

  Yogi Berra

  Fields, Sun, Stadiums

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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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• Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Foundation, Tomorrow

  "Random Thoughts". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. April 06, 1999.

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• Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered. But humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

  David Attenborough

  Long, Humanity, Climate

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

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• "It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Chicks

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.255

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• I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Climate, Hell

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.24, Penguin

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• For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

  George Gissing

  Courage, Men, Blood

  George Gissing (1909). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”

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• A clear sunny day can suddenly shift to thunder and lightning, a raging storm can suddenly give way to a bright moonlit night. The weather may be inconstant, but the sky remains the same. The substance of the human mind should also be like this.

  Zicheng Hong

  Night, Sky, Giving

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