Home / Topics / Rain Quotes

Rain Quotes

Browse 2936 quotes about Rain.

Rain Quotes

“A delicate fabric of bird song Floats in the air, The smell of wet wild earth Is everywhere. Oh I must pass nothing by Without loving it much, The raindrop try with my lips, The grass with my touch; For how can I be sure I shall see again The world on the first of May Shining after the rain?”

World Trying Firsts May Earth Song Air Spring Bird Rain Shining Lips Smell Grass Delicate Wet Fabric Floats Raindrops After The Rain Bird Song

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.”

Needs I Can Sex Tree Prove Rain Standing Appeals Apples Bedroom Sex Appeal Funny Sex Great Sex Sex Relationships Sex Love Standing In The Rain

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.”

Light Film Streets Rain Steady Wet Candy Ruthless Neon Busted

Book:Nobody Move: A Novel

Source: Nobody Move: A Novel

“An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.”

Firsts Taken Hundred Rain Skins Dresses Clean Winter Indian Wet Deer Severity Lodges

Book:The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London

Source: The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London

“I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.”

People Thinking Feels Today Worry Rain Sorry Sunshine Rainy Rainy Day

Book:SUFFER A WITCH

Source: SUFFER A WITCH

“Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun?”

Littles Done Water Sun Rain Rivers Wings Dry Fairy

Author:Rose Fyleman

“Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.”

Earth Water Environment Depends Rain Rivers Bases Blue Marine Arteries

Author:Sandra Postel

“For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.”

Source: The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity

“Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.”

Giving May Littles Joy Water Hours Pleasure Rain Rivers Lips Cups Shock Little Things Juice Exquisite Fever Drains Refreshments Draught Fresh Water

Book:Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts

Source: Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts

“When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.”

World Desire Growing Up Growing Sorrow Rain Overcoming Increase Buddhist Grass Wretched Clinging Grass Growing

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.”

Next Water Blood Rain Rivers Respectful Relationships

Author:Stanley Crawford

“We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short, we need a water ethic-a guide to right conduct in the face of complex decisions about natural systems we do not and cannot fully understand.”

Needs Has Beens Use Faces Water Natural Decision Rights Protect Ethics Rain Rivers Assuming Complexes Guides Obligation Preserves Right Conduct

Author:Sandra Postel

“In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.”

Way Mind Desire House Break Meditation Rain Buddhist Roof

Author:Gautama Buddha

“We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.”

People Fall Tree Rain Plant Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out from within them, except for the great sea, nor would the streams of rivers nor the rain-water in the sky exist but for the sea ; but the great sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.”

Water Sea Sky Wind Source Ocean Rain Rivers Clouds Blow Arise Streams Blast Rain Water

Author:Xenophanes

“The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky?”

World Turns Water Sky Arms Rain Rivers Lakes Silver Spills Rivers And Lakes Lakes And Rivers Sky And Water

Book:Poems by a Little Girl

Source: Poems by a Little Girl

“High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth. Of all our planet's activities - geological movements, the reproduction and decay of biota, and even the disruptive propensities of certain species (elephants and humans come to mind) - no force is greater than the hydrologic cycle.”

“Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.”

Science Sea Wind Rain Irises

Author:Empedocles

“To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.”

Doe Science Sea Waste Rain Aids Salt Sheer Worthless

Book:Canadian Stories

Source: Canadian Stories

“She's Cherokee Indian, which is great 'cause whenever we have sex, it rains.”

Sex Causes Rain Indian Cherokee Cherokee Indian

Author:Jay Mohr

“Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we know definitely that men have come to the sources of the Nile and have observed the rains there.”

Knows Men Science Causes Source Rain Observation Overflow Nile

Author:Eratosthenes

“There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that.”

Wells Heart Different Loss Sorrow Rain Too Deep Good Rain

Author:Hafez

“You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it.”

Writing Water Reader Rain Barrels Drop Of Water

Book:Pep Talks, Warnings, And Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom And Cautionary Advice For Writers

Source: Pep Talks, Warnings, And Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom And Cautionary Advice For Writers

“An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.”

Ifs World Mind Suffering Passion Next House Strong Poor Meditation This World Rain Shelter Flood Roof Impure Thoughts

Author:Gautama Buddha

“If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.”

Ifs Desire Fall Grows Water Sleep Meditation Tree Flower Sorrow Findings Rain Filled Fruit Forests Grass Monkeys Finding Peace Vines Drop Of Water Lotuses Lotus Flower After The Rain

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.”

Earth Heaven Grows Lord Growing Up Gratitude Mountain Rain Praise Clouds Grass Harps

Author:David

“Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.”

People Way Tree Lows Rain Fruit Clouds Noble Generosity Gentle Generous Bows Gentle Rain

Author:Bhartrhari

“It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.”

Men Said Whole Courses Darkness Journey He Man Rain Horse Speed Snow Heat Intervals

Book:Herodotus

Source: Herodotus

“Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history and lore, echo a familiar landscape, he brings it out of the Earth milieu and into a bold new universe where technology and tradition collide. I enjoyed his colorful characters and musical use of language; his voice is fresh and entirely readable.”

“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]”

Night Rain Rounds Snow Heat Motto Gloom Completion Post Office Sleet Postal Service

Book:The Histories

Source: The Histories

“As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.”

Heart Fall Kindness Judgment Rain Burden Unjust

Author:Gautama Buddha

“That night it did not rain as much in the sky as it did in his heart.”

Heart Night Sky Rain True Love

Book:Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!

Source: Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!

“I got a smile that'll make the mirror crack, And I seem to stay under clouds that's pitch black. So when it rains, it pours, and when it pours, I'm soaked. I contracted lung cancer from third hand smoke, And I'm like the frog that's dying to be a prince, The boy who cried wolf and no one was convinced. The man who hit lotto and lost his ticket, In a rainstorm...and struck by lightning trying to get it.”

“I know you don't wanna hear my opinion, There come many paths and you must choose one. And if you don't change then the rain soon come. See, you might win some, but you just lost one.”

Ifs Knows Might Winning Lost Opinion Path Rain Hip Hop Rap Don't Change Lost Ones Many Paths

Author:Lauryn Hill

“There's divinity within because we come from the divine, A force that's not seen, but you feel it every time: When the wind blows, and the world turns, And the rain drops, and the baby cries, And the bird flies, and the ground quake, And the stars gleam.”

World Feels Turns Force Stars Cry Divine Wind Baby Bird Rain Blow Hip Hop Rap Divinity Gleam Quake Rain Drop

Author:Q-Tip

“You never know: rain, sleet, hail, snow, See you gotta accept that's how things go. Prepare for the rainy day, or the sun's glow, But there's clouds movin' in and the clouds gonna blow.”

Knows Accepting Sun Rain Clouds Blow Hip Hop Rap Snow Rainy Rainy Day Hail Sleet

Author:Q-Tip

“The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean it value multiplied a million fold.”

Humans Reality Earth Values Water Animal Millions Tree Return Ocean Rain Plant Etc Insects Folds Plant A Tree Rain Water

Author:Chanakya

“Scared of a bunch of water? Then get out the rain. Order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain.”

Order Water Rain Scared Hip Hop Rap Bunch Chains Lunch Rapper Spit

Author:Daniel Dumile

“I'm caught up in the system where the blind lead the blind And this artist only speaks on the Signs of the Time. And I pop pills in Purple Rain to state my pain, They say I'm just like my father, bold and too cold.”

States Pain Artist Father Speak Cold Rain Blind Caught Hip Hop Pops Rap Caught Up Purple Pills Purple Rain

Author:Beanie Sigel

“My God would never deliberately bring harm to anyone. But if it happens, if it simply happens due to wind and rain and weather and man's own mistakes, then God has promises to keep: Li£e continuing. An even richer, fuller, brighter ongoing life to compensate.”

Ifs Men Life Happens Mistake Wind Promise Rain Dues Harm Weather Continuing Ongoing Brighter Wind And Rain

Author:Marjorie Holmes

“The first music I bought when I was nine or 10 was pop music from the '50s and '60s, like The Everly Bros., Elvis, Del Shannon, The Flamingos, The Platters, whatever I could get my hands on. And then some musical things, like Camelot, Singing in the Rain and Hair.”

Firsts Hands Hair Singing Rain Musical Pops Nine Pop Music Bros Camelot Shannon Flamingos Singing In The Rain

Author:Will Oldham

“The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field as the tares, but shall the two cross-pollinate? The sheep graze near the goats, but shall they seek to interbreed? The unjust and the just enjoy the same rain and sunshine, but shall they forget their deep moral differences and intermarry? ... The Spirit-illuminated church will have none of this”

Doe Two Spirit Grows Enjoy Differences Church Forget Moral Fields Rain Crosses Unions Unity Sunshine Sheep Unjust Fellowship Goats Wheat Coexistence Recurring

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Despite the rain, it's still raining here at Old Trafford.”

Stills Rain Despite Soccer Funny Soccer

Author:Jimmy Hill

“We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain?”

Thinking Sometimes Problem Waiting Missing Rain Grateful Thank God Rainbow Be Grateful Being Thankful

Author:Robert D. Hales

“Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.”

Literature Blood Tears Strange Products Rain Sweat

Author:Roberto Bolano

“Where I come from, family’s defined as those who don’t screw you over a pay check. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they’ll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they’re your family.”

Ifs Knows Differences Pay Hell Blood Rain Checks Defined Our Family Screws Screw You

Book:Born Of Shadows: Number 4 in series

Source: Born Of Shadows: Number 4 in series

“I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed.”

People Ifs Want Different Play Certain Song Needed My Friends Rain Method Ill Broke

Author:John Coltrane

“Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north there is no need to worry about the snow. You will get plenty each year. If you live in California or Texas you needn't worry about rain because we won't receive any.”

Ifs Needs Years Mean Worry Rain Snow Plenty California Zero Texas Disturbing Fretting

Author:Jack White

“All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind or rain. To stay healthy and strong, life must have clean air, clear water and pure food. If deprived of these things, life will cycle to the next level, or as the system says, 'die'.”

“I'm still dominant and that's what matters, ... But rain, snow, sleet, it doesn't matter. I'm going to go out and try and win a gold medal.”

Trying Stills Matter Winning Rain Gold Snow What Matters Dominant Medal Gold Medals Sleet

Author:Justin Gatlin