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
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
e. e. cummings
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
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jesus Christ
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
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