Rain Quotes
2659 quotes by 1732 authors
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I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.
— Bill Rodgers
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It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
— Mark Twain
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It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost…
— Edith Wharton
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
— Novalis
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Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.
— Ming-Dao Deng
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The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was…
— Hermann Hesse
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Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Praise the sea; on shore remain.
— John Florio
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When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost…
— Joseph Campbell
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
— Matsuo Basho
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The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
— Lucretius
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The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I…
— Pablo Neruda
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By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being…
— Benjamin Hoff
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I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my…
— Theodore Roethke
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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven…
— Aeschylus
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But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it…
— William Shakespeare
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Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...
— Richard Wilbur
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A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.
— Edwin Arnold
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Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.
— H. M. Tomlinson
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