1,262 Quotes About Rain

  • Author Stephen Dunn
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    exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

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  • Author Black Elk
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    You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

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  • Author Black Elk
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    When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greenier and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.

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  • Author George Eliot
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    When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

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  • Author Janet Evanovich
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    It was dark and raining, with bad visibility, but this was Jersey, and we don't slow down for anything.

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  • Author Jeffrey Eugenides
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    All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.

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  • Author John Elway
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    I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

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  • Author Jonathan Edwards
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    We have seen that the Son of God created the world for this very end, to communicate Himself in an image of His own excellency. ... When we behold the light and brightness of the sun, the golden edges of an evening cloud, or the beauteous (rain)bow, we behold the adumbrations of His glory and goodness; and in the blue sky, of his mildness and gentleness.

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