Clouds Quotes
1715 quotes by 1196 authors
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Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changing the minds of pretenders While chasing the clouds away Our hearts were ringing In…
— Maurice White
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And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their…
— Kathleen Raine
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Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!
— Henry David Thoreau
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As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some…
— Celia Thaxter
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I wish there was a disease where you're afraid of clouds, because I think I could cure it. First, you sit the patient down and…
— Jack Handey
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I'll be the first to admit that my idea of God is pretty different. I believe in a God with a long white beard, a…
— Jack Handey
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The boys feet have been up in the clouds since the win
— Alan Buckley
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Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence…
— Al Gore
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There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and…
— Robertson Davies
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Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up…
— Alan Sillitoe
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There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable…
— William Cowper
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Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults.
— Maya Angelou
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You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be thougth of as…
— Ram Dass
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.
— Thomas Guthrie
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their…
— Oscar Wilde
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud…
— H. L. Mencken
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