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Rain Quotes

– “A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” – Robert Frost

– “A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.” – Frederick The Great

– “A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.” – James Dickey

– “A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true.” – Ray Evans

– “And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.” – Ferdowsi

– “And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

– “Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.” – Dwight Morrow

– “Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.” – Joshua Slocum

– “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore

– “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” – Frank Howard Clark

– “Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.” – Billie Holiday

– “Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there’s the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.” – John McGahern

– “For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.” – John Cheever

– “For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.” – Thomas More

– “He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.” – Douglas William Jerrold

– “Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.” – Michael W. Smith

– “Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn’t have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.” – Herbert Simon

– “I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.” – Eden Ahbez

– “I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy.” – Glenn Beck