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“How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.”

Ifs Giving Trying Firsts Ends Night Easy Stuff Deals Tree Special Figures Late Tough Rain Seasons Miracle Plant Seeds Soil Sunshine What If Wow Arrangements Reserved

Author:Jim Rohn

“The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.”

Firsts Dream Answers Streets Cold Eternal Rain Ghost Wander Lifts Dreamer Palms Inquisitive

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Life certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day.”

“The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.”

Firsts Water Freedom Rain Desert Midst Rejoice Showers Lilies Petals Sandy Shrubs Water Lily Rain Drop

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.”

People Firsts Night White Too Much Week Dog Strange Color Summer Rain Hot Silent Sorry Dawn Sunset Lightning Blank Thunder August Noon All Alone Breathless Quiver Dog Days

Author:Natalie Babbitt

“here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.”

Source: A Year in Van Nuys

“Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect.”

Firsts Kind House Sun Saws Pieces Subjects Effects Wind Circumstances Rain Awful Conventional Lightning Thunder Surroundings Acquaintance Daylight Spooky

Book:Ghost stories

Source: Ghost stories

“The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing.”

Firsts Sound Prayer Secret Doors Heard Blessing Rain Increase Ministers Abundance Closets Revival Revival Prayer Harbinger

Author:Andy Murray

“For the first time American astronauts on the International Space Station ate vegetables grown in space. In other words, even space is getting more rain than California.”

Firsts Space First Time Rain International California Stations Vegetables Astronaut International Space Station

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.””

Firsts Hard Song Fall Interesting Rain Bob Solo Dylan Cover Songs

Author:Bryan Ferry

“[Jesus] teaches that just as the sun gives light to both wicked and good, and the rain brings nourishment to righteous and unrighteous, God's compassion embraces all people. There are no pre-conditions for it, nothing we need to do first, nothing we have to believe. When we are ready to receive it, it is already there. And the more we live in its presence, the more effortlessly if flows through us, until we find that we no longer need external rules or Bibles or Messiahs.”

People Ifs Needs Giving Firsts Believe Light Jesus Compassion Teach Sun Conditions Ready Rain Flow Embrace Wicked Righteous Nourishment Messiah

Author:Stephen Mitchell

“What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely a plant or a natural phenomenon (such as rain or water), which stands in a peculiar relation to the whole clan. In the first place, the totem is the common ancestor of the clan; at the same time it is their guardian spirit and helper, which sends them oracles and, if dangerous to others, recognizes and spares its own children.”

Ifs Firsts Children Whole Spirit Water Natural Animal Common Dangerous Rain Relation Plant Phenomenon Peculiar Ancestor Spares Guardian Clans Helpers Oracles Totems Natural Phenomena

Book:Totem and Taboo

Source: Totem and Taboo

“I've been on a real Credence Clearwater kick. I've been collecting their albums on CD -- right now I really like 'I Put a Spell on You.' I don't know who actually wrote it; it might be a traditional, or like, an old blues song, I haven't looked in the liner notes, but it's the first song on their first album. I love all the hits; I mean @#$%&, I like every one of them. I think my favorite song by John Fogerty is 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?' They're my favorite American band of all time, totally.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Mean Real Might Song Havens Right Now Band Rain Notes My Favorite Albums Traditional All Time Kicks Spells Collecting Cds Favorite Song Credence

Author:Ben Kweller

“What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.”

“It was when Boston invited us to do a parade one November, and I was the only [Star Wars] cast member skeptical of the willingness of people to come out to see us five actors drive by in antique cars in the Boston rain. Well, it was the first time I really understood the show's popularity.”

People Firsts Wells War Shows Actors Stars Five Car Members Understood First Time Rain Casts Willingness Popularity Invited Boston Skeptical November Parades Antiques Cast Members

Author:John Ratzenberger

“The first thing to recognize is how fortunate Ireland is to be an island off the west coast of Europe, and therefore helped by the prevailing winds to escape the effects of acid rain and other problems. We were also lucky not to have had the same kind of industrial revolution and industry as some other countries. Our problem now is to create employment, but to do it in ways that value our environment.”

“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”

Firsts Ends Suffering Fall Evil Silence Heard Crime Cry Horror Thousand Summer Hundred First Time Rain Spread Invisible Tyranny Tyrants Blanket Unendurable Butchery

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing a cup of coffee as rain fell outside. 'I don't know, I just liked the idea of having this relationship to the paper and the adventure of imagining the spaces. That was the first image that captured me.”

“Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to build an ark. There was no visible ram in the thicket when Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac. Two heavenly personages were not yet seen when Joseph knelt and prayed. First came the test of faith–and then the miracle. Remember that faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. Cast out doubt. Cultivate faith.”

Mind Firsts Two Remember Doubt Sacrifice Son Rain Tests Miracle Prepared Casts Visible Heavenly Abraham Isaac Ark Rams Thickets Faith And Doubt Test Of Faith

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.”

Firsts Night Morning Darkness Air Sky Objects Grew Birth Terrible Shapes Rain Familiar Defined Dull Thick Gloom Hue Piercings

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville; Quelle est cette langueur Qui penetre mon coeur? Then she looks up and without any warning she calls on me to translate it. I swallow hard, and try: "It's raining in my heart like it's raining in the city. What is this sadness that pierces my heart?" Saying these words out loud, right in front of the whole class, makes me feel like I'm not wearing any clothes.”

Feels Trying Firsts Looks Heart Hard Whole Reading Cities Class Sadness Fronts My Heart Lessons Clothes Rain Loud Look Up Warning Translate Pierce Reading Aloud

Author:Sonya Sones

“All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain—this is nothing beside a life without poetry.”

Ifs Firsts Said Two Purpose Tree Elements Rain Flight Shelter Requirements Without Love Squirrels Ravens

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must know. There is really nothing you must become. However. It helps to understand that fire burns, and when it rains, the earth gets wet. . . .' 'Whatever, there are consequences. Nobody is exempt,' said the master.”

Knows Firsts Said Helping Earth Fire Masters Consequence Rain Wet

Book:It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

“Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.”

Writing Firsts Said Today Remember Nations Rain Hot Heavy Rejection Slips Wet Tempted August Rainfall

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her.”

Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie

“The lasting legacy of the Cooter Smash is that I'm the first to know when it's going to rain. That's right. I both sing and predict the weather with my hoo hoo.”

Knows Firsts Rain Weather Legacy Lasting Lasting Legacy

Book:A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages

Source: A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages

“You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them again.”

Ifs Years Firsts Said Earth Lying Fall Waiting Water Chance Half Grew Rain Roots Plant Spread Surface Soil Sand Drought Dormant Drop Of Water

Book:Stolen

Source: Stolen

“The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.”

Firsts Has Beens Two Sometimes Lasts Economy Wonderful Duty Rain Garden Rivers Foundation Firsts And Lasts

Author:Wendell Berry

“There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared to be a large angel topping a nearby monument rose to full height. Neither stone nor marble, the boy had arms and legs. His torso was naked, his feet were bare, and peasant trousers hung low on his waist. He hopped down from the monument, the ends of his hair dripping rain. It slid down his face, which was dark as a Spaniard's.”

Source: Hush, Hush

“She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.”

Firsts Light Earth Stars Summer Rain Evening Breeze

Book:The Distant Hours: A Novel

Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel

“To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.”

Life Inspirational Firsts Wisdom Enjoy Life Philosophy Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Rain Rainbow Key To Success Recipe For Success Chasing Rainbows

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.”

“She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.”

Knows Firsts Kind Earth Mother Strong White Sun Wonderful Mom Rain Warm Gentle Generous Great Love Being A Mom Steadfast Whiplash

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of nature; for they made the Oceanus and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the Gods as being by water, to which they give the name of Styx; for what is oldest is most honourable, and the most honourable thing is that by which one swears”

Thinking Giving Firsts Long Made Names Parent Water Views Generations Creation Rain Rivers Accounts Swear Oath Framed Styx

Author:Mary Hunter Austin

“Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved....this they say is the element and this is the principle of things.... yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principle is water.”

Firsts Matter Lasts Water Numbers Principles Elements Rain All Things Rivers Agree Philosopher

Author:Mary Hunter Austin

“There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.”

Firsts Fear Nature Sweet Periods Rain Smell Curious Breeze Wind And Rain Rainy Weather Inspirational Rain Happy Rain Rains Beauty Smell Of Rain

Book:The Names

Source: The Names

“I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier; Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce; Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten By the dwellers in cities-ever, however, implacable. Keeping his seasons, and rages, destroyer, reminder Of what men choose to forget. Unhonored, unpropitiated By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.”

“Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.”

Source: De rerum natura

“I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.”

“In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense, they were the first American irrigators of any significance. And their knowledge about the art of applying water to land has spread throughout the world.”

World Years Firsts Art Two Water Land Rain Rivers Gold Spread California Lakes Two Years Significance Valleys Salt Greedy Utah

Author:Stuart Campbell

“If the first of July it be rainy weather, 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together.”

Ifs Firsts Together Four Week Summer Rain Weather July Rainy Rainy Weather

Author:John Ray

“Every day after lunch when I was writing my first book, I'd nibble a square of fine chocolate and meditate on all that had gone into its creation: the sun and rain that spilled on the cocoa plant, the soil that nourished it, the hands that picked the beans, and so on. My taste of chocolate became a lesson on the interconnectedness of things, and the infinite blessings for which I am grateful.”

Writing Firsts Book Hands Sun Gone Creation Fine Lessons Taste Blessing Rain Infinite Grateful Plant Soil Chocolate Lunch Squares Beans Interconnectedness I Am Grateful Cocoa Sun And Rain

Author:Laura Hillenbrand

“At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity”

Firsts Humanity Fighting Realizing Environment Tree Rain Environmental Forests Conservation Jungle Amazon Rubber Environmentalist Deforestation Rainforest Amazon Rainforest

Author:Chico Mendes

“I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.”

“They had so much rain in New York that a lot of the cabbies had their first shower in years.”

Years Firsts New York Rain Showers

Author:Jay Leno

“It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going to end up doing something that he's probably already done before. It always seem like we're falling behind whatever he came up with. "Singin' in the Rain" (1952) in "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) - that was the first time I became so aware of music in movies. So no matter how hard you try to do something new, you're always following behind.”

Trying Firsts Kind Ends Matter Hard Done Seems Fall Behinds First Time Rain Following Debt Something New Orange Stanley Clockwork New You Singin In The Rain Falling Behind

Author:Paul Thomas Anderson

“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

“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

“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

“I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.”

Firsts Kind Mean Play Waiting Difficult Late Rain Busy Evening Delay Mean Girls

Author:Daniela Hantuchova