Thunder Quotes
350 quotes by 285 authors
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The voice of God is heard from heaven, declaring the day and hour of Jesus' coming, and delivering the everlasting covenant to His people. Like…
— Ellen G. White
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We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.
— Jay Griffiths
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When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.
— Andy Behrman
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We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with…
— Li Bai
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The relic from before birth Enters one's heart one day. Be as careful as if you were holding a full vessel, Be as gentle as…
— Sun Bu'er
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A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood…
— W. S. Gilbert
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Above The Thunder is passionate, wise, and piercingly beautiful. Readers drawn to books with rich, memorable characters and contemporary stories will find this remarkable debut…
— Tony Ardizzone
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I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I…
— Pinetop Perkins
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No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace
— Shawn Phillips
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Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.
— Benjamin Franklin
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We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk:…
— Thomas Carlyle
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On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
— Rudyard Kipling
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the God, and the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and…
— Paul Robeson
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You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
— Mark Twain
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Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost of…
— Peter Tait
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Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the…
— Herman Melville
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As the dawn comes up like thunder.
— Rudyard Kipling
Who Wrote These Thunder Quotes
285 authors contributed a total of 350 Thunder Quotes, led by these top contributors: