R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Raimund, we must promise each other that if one of us leaves Mora it must be both. We must leave together.” She was not sure what had made her ask for this promise, but she was growing more aware of her femininity. She loved Raimund as a brother, but something told her that her feelings for him were more than those of a sibling.
Raimund smiled and squeezed her hand. “Of course Aleana, I am after all your brother.”
Source: The Emperor
“Rain always seems to me like a thousand little kisses from Heaven.
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Regen kommen mir doch immer vor wie tausend kleine Küsschen aus dem Himmel.”
“Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you’re reacting at speed, you’re reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“Rain,
Aren’t you my soul’s joyful tears
only longing for the sky to be happy?”
“rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.”
Source: God Save the Queen!
“Rain came in with vigor, galvanizing the streets and awakening the rooftops with fear.”
Source: Tajrish
“Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.”
“Rain comes down as the sky kisses the earth.”
“Rain could show up at your door and teach you how to dance.”
“Rain darkened with the approaching night, while the wind howled as if it was in pain.”
Source: The Swan Lake Murders
“Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.”
“Rain drips from the sky
I hope it rains forever
If that's what it takes to wash you away from me
And when I'm clean
I'll finally be free.”
“Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.”
“Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.”
Source: How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
“Rain falls, wind blows, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away; these phenomena are all interrelated with causes and conditions, are brought about by them, and disappear as the causes and conditions change.”
“Rain fell more steadily now. Grey and unrelenting. Nobody seemed to notice. Rain on the puddles. Rain on the high brickwork. Rain on the slate roofs. Rain on the rain itself.”
Source: TransAtlantic
“Rain filtered in scattered drops from the leaves; everywhere, an extraordinary moss ruled supreme over its private kingdom; thick and moving, poised on root and stone, it seemed to glitter.”
Source: Une rose seule
“Rain hellfire upon him. Take your revenge. Take what you are fucking owed, Fiora.”
Source: The Glass Goddess
“Rain in Metro Manila is like a love affair: Short and fleeting; or torrid and flooding with tragic casualties left in its wake.”
Source: Karinderya Love Songs
“Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.”
“Rain in the Northwest is not the pounding, flashing performance enjoyed by the eastern part of the nation. Nor is it the festive annual soaking I'd been used to in Southern California. Rather, it's a seven-month drizzle that darkens the sky, mildews the bath towels, and propels those already prone to depression into the dim comforts of antihistamines and a flask.”
Source: Wild Within: How Rescuing Owls Inspired a Family
“Rain, in your glorious presence, Miss Temminnick? I hardly think it should dare.”
Source: Curtsies & Conspiracies
“Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.”
Source: The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination
“Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist breath whistling through willow reeds; a pattering beat background to the mourner's melody. Rain is a soft song of compassion for the brokenhearted.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.”
“Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.”
“Rain is filled with sorrows of joy.”
“Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.”
“Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”
“Rain is just God weeping for Earth’s troubles.”
“Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on every vacation.”
“Rain is nice. It washes away the grime of life. - The Malwatch.”
“rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.”
Source: The Bleeding Heart: A Novel
“Rain is rain.”
“Rain is something the democrats use to sell umbrellas.”
“Rain is the purest of natural happenings.”
“Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.”
Source: Notable American Women: A Novel
“Rain it did, and that night in the atrium of the old farmhouse, they could here it hushing and pattering on the roof and among the broad leaves of the fig-tree outside; and the little breath of air from the open door that scarcely stirred the flame of the lamp on the table bore with it that most wonderful of all smells, the throat-catching heart-catching scent of rain on a hot and thirsty earth.”
Source: Rudyard Kipling
“Rain knows the earth and loves it well, for rain is the passion of the earth.”
Source: Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings
“Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey.”
“Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud- falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I'm not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.”
“Rain makes things wet”
Source: The Risk
“Rain Man certainly didn't test really well. If you look at it carefully, you have a disease autism they didn't understand back then, they didn't know in the test audience whether it's okay to laugh or not laugh, because it's a film that's done in a way where, "Well, maybe I'm not supposed to laugh." At the end of the film, Dustin Hoffman gets on the train and doesn't even acknowledge his brother. Not even a glance, nothing. That's why the studio said, "Can't you just have him look at Tom Cruise at the end of the film?"”
“Rain never falls dirty!”
“Rain never understands why people hide under their umbrellas! Let us make a surprise to the rain by closing our umbrellas!”
“Rain on my head, call that brainstorming.”
“Rain on the West Coast was as much a part of the fabric of existence as economic precarity.”
Source: Coexistence: Stories
“Rain on your body burned my heart. (Pluie sur ton corps - Brûla mon coeur.)”
“Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens”