Best rain & waiting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy”

Ifs Knows Years Stills Left Easy Waiting Tears Rain Clouds Orange Choke Casualties

Author:Tori Amos

“In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport. Tanks from the Taman Division stood beneath the dripping trees around Moscow University with their field kitchens and command trucks. This was not a new sight to me: the Soviet tanks had rested like that beneath the trees of the parks in Prague, late in another August twenty-three years before. Now they had invaded and crushed one more country -- their own.”

“You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.”

“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.”

“Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.”

Men Long Doe Would Be Eye Law Waiting Hours Sun Tree Tears Wind Eternal Rain Fruit Uncertain Flowering Flawless Sun And Rain

Book:Report to Greco

Source: Report to Greco

“Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.”

Men Age Waiting Boys Months Rain Dry Old Man Here I Am

Author:T. S. Eliot

“All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.”

“The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!”

Earth Waiting Water Rain Roots Environmental Grass Strain

Book:Collected Poems, 1917-1982

Source: Collected Poems, 1917-1982

“If I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told "There is nothing', till at last there arises a little cloud out of the sea, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

Ifs Knows Littles Long I Can Lasts Faces Spirit Fall Waiting Sound Sea Six Rain Clouds Arise Knees Have Faith Sixty Calvary Sound Of Rain

Author:Amy Carmichael

“I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.”

Thinking Feels Should Long Waiting Opinion Rain Snow Journalist

Author:Marc Jacobs

“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? Being grateful in times of distress does not mean that we are pleased with our circumstances. It does mean that through the eyes of faith we look beyond our present-day challenges. This is not a gratitude of the lips but of the soul. It is a gratitude that heals the heart and expands the mind.”

“We cannot wait for the storm to blow over; we must learn to work in the rain.”

Waiting Rain Blow Storm

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“People vote against their own interests that all the time. But when you do the polling in the U.S., it has gone from less than 50 percent who thought climate change was real to 70-odd percent. And if you listen to the Republicans in Congress, they used to say, "Oh, climate change doesn't exist." Then they switched to "Well, it exists, but it's not man-made," to "Well, I'm going to address the issue." Why? Because when they go home, the local constituent says, "Wait a second. What are you talking about? We just had a flood. We haven't had rain in a long time." They can't get away from it.”

People Long Real Home Waiting Interest Republican Rain Vote Climate Change Get Away Flood

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“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.”

Feels Games Waiting Achieve Rain Clarity

Author:Venus Williams

“Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes and smile and name. She knew how he looked--the angel in her dream--but she didn't know how to find him. Should she roller-skate through the streets in the evenings when the streetlights flicker on? Should she stow away to Jamaica on a cruise ship and search for him in the rain forests and along the beaches? Would he come to her? Was he waiting, dreaming of her in the same way she waited and dreamed?”

Knows Way Should Dream Eye Wanted Asks Names Waiting Know How Streets Baby Angel Rain Forests Ships Evening Beach Witch Cruise Skates Flicker Jamaica Raphael Ping Cruise Ships

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand shore. It is moonlight. The garden is silent. I stand in my room alone. Across my wall, from the far-off moon, A rain of fire is thrown. There are houses hanging above the stars, And stars hung under the sea, And a wind from the long blue vault of time Waves my curtains for me. I wait in the dark once more, swung between space and space: Before the mirror I lift my hands And face my remembered face.”

Source: The Charnel Rose. Senlin: Biography and Other Poems

“I could wait patiently, but I really wish you would: Drop everything now, meet me in the pourin' rain, Kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile Hit me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down, Give me somethin' that'll haunt me when you're not around; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you . . . smile.”

Giving Light Eye Pain Wish Causes Waiting Baby Kissing Rain Give Me Green Sparks Wish You Kiss Me Sidewalk Green Eyes

Author:Taylor Swift

“There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.”

Knows Mind Moments Seems Waiting Rain Certainty Fallen Showers Frequency Of My Mind Dismay

Author:John Banville

“Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasp'd no more - Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.”

Heart Long Hands Used House Waiting Dark Sleep Break Morning Doors Streets My Heart Beats Rain Noise Guilty Far Away Blank Creeps Begin Again Ghastly

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.”

Giving Girl Heaven Waiting Giving Up Rain Never Giving Up Looking For Love Never Give Up On Love Giving Up On Love

Book:Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

Source: Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

“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

“She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.”

Knows World Home Light Waiting Voice Dark Walks Secret Saws Arms Promise Rain Meetings Tiny Necks Sunshine Umbrella Fingertips Balconies

Author:Laini Taylor

“Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.”

Ifs Waiting Sun Sitting Rain Garden Standing

Author:John Lennon

“They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.”

“And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain’s million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark of night?”

Doe Night Waiting Dark Walks Levels Millions Listening Rain Towns Graves Branches Melancholy Steady September Small Town Roaring Brooding Dripping Rain At Night

Book:The Town and the City

Source: The Town and the City

“Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story”

Stories Waiting Rain Useless Disappointing Drought Waiting For You Cinderella Story

Author:Hilary Duff

“Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.”

Earth Waiting Water Rain Rivers Shelter Weeping Stains Petals Clearing Plums

Author:Ming-Dao Deng

“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.”

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”

Ifs Way Want I Can Purpose Next Waiting Rain Who You Are Inspired Come Up Excited Rainbow Because I Can

Author:Dolly Parton

“Worrying is stupid. it's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.”

Waiting Worry Stupid Walking Rain Meaningful Rapper Rainy Umbrella Rainy Day Stop Worrying Raining Day Monsoons Rainy Season Walking In The Rain

Author:Wiz Khalifa

“I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”

Thinking Feels Reality Waiting Rain Skins Optimistic Pessimism Being Real Pessimist Singer Songwriters Pessimistic Realist Inspirational Rain

Author:Leonard Cohen

“I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.”

People Waiting Rain Asking Disappear Inspirational Rain

Author:David Copperfield

“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

“How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God there is rain?”

Waiting Missing Gratitude Rain Appreciation Thank God Rainbow

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand in front of a leaf with a dew drop, or a rain drop, and stay there for ages just waiting for the right moment. Sure, people think I'm crazy, but who cares? I see more than they do!”

“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

“Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December; Resting, as a tree rests After its leaves are gone, Waiting no more for a rain at night Nor for the red at dawn.”

Heart Remember Night Left Waiting Gone Tree My Heart Red Rain Dawn December Rain At Night

Book:Flame and Shadow

Source: Flame and Shadow

“But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain”

Men I Can Waiting Hours Rain Patient

Book:Dora Bruder

Source: Dora Bruder

“Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.”

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