Umbrella Quotes
189 Umbrella quotes by 159 unique authors
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What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
— Cory Doctorow
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In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine…
— H R Giger
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NCL ... stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing…
— Micky Arison
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Prayer is asking for rain. Faith is carrying an umbrella. Faith is the inner sense of knowing that with divine order working on your side,…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
— James Russell Lowell
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This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those…
— Slavoj Žižek
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All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
— Wallace Stevens
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Rain is something the democrats use to sell umbrellas.
— Sarah Palin
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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
— Dorothy Parker
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Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture…
— Blake Shelton
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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Elf and the Dormouse UNDER a toadstool crept a wee Elf, Out of the rain to shelter himself. Under the toadstool, sound asleep, Sat…
— Oliver Herford
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Heavenly Father is constantly raining blessings upon us, but it is our fear, doubt, and sin that, like an umbrella, block these blessings from reaching…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters…
— Jenny Offill
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Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have…
— Zhang Yimou
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I've put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it. I sat in a lemon-meringue pie. I've done terrible things to my dog with a…
— Steve Martin
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Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime. What children see…
— Fredric Wertham
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But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.
— Meher Baba
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
— Barbara Johnson
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It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Who Wrote These Umbrella Quotes
159 authors contributed a total of 189 Umbrella Quotes, led by these top contributors: