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“Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.”

Has Beens Girl Black Clouds Grandmother Rainbow My Grandmother Sexually Barefoot Arkansas Black Girl

Author:Maya Angelou

“When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.”

Seems Black Failure Losing Clouds Following Silver Black Clouds

Author:Mario Andretti

“That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.”

People Thinking Black Results Baseball Clouds Steroid Black Clouds

Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“The sky was horribly dark , but one could distinctly see tattered clouds , and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star , and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea : I decided to kill myself that night .”

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Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.”

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“I think about a storm rolling in with black clouds and I visualize the lightning and try to draw energy from that, and I think: all I have to do is beat this man until he stops moving, then I can go home to my son.”

Thinking Men Trying I Can Home Moving Energy Black Son Beats Draws Clouds Storm My Son Lightning Rolling Black Clouds

Author:Carlos Condit

“Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horrible tempest. In its mid-region, where it is neither too little to be motive nor too furious to be ungovernable, it has usefulness. For all feeling is as fuel, and where there is none life has no fire, and then no flame of ascent.”

Littles Feelings Passion Black Fire Degrees Anger Clouds Rage Horrible Flames Motive Fuel Regions Fury Usefulness Furious Tempest Ascent Vexation Ascending

Author:James Vila Blake

“The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.”

Source: The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave

“The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.”

Stills Night Black Dark Behinds Wind Cold Mass Train Clouds Driving Funeral Gloomy Spooky Lingering Hurrying Gliding Cold Wind

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.”

World May Black Clouds Lightning Good Day Black Clouds

Author:Augustus Hare

“Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.”

Black Clouds Golden Pessimism Pessimist Reactionaries Humorists

Book:I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist

Source: I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist

“Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.”

Littles Long Two Shows Earth Heaven Black Church White Sun Drink Angel Rain Prejudice Clouds Blow Heavy Storm Cleaning Trumpets Sweeping Pastures Nightingales Food And Drink

Author:Jacques Roumain

“O, the sweet, sweet twilight just before the time of rest, When the black clouds are driven away, and the stormy winds suppressed.”

Black Sweet Wind Clouds Driven Twilight Stormy Black Clouds

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain of nuclear ashes will fall alike on the just and the unjust. And then it will be too late to wish that we had done the real work of this atomic age, which is to seek a world that is neither red nor dead.”

World Real Done Age Fall Wish Black Morality Late Red Rain Clouds Nuclear Too Late Ashes Unjust Mushrooms Real Work

Author:Edward Kennedy