Definition of Rainbow

Rainbow

A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.

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Rainbow Quotations

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
Sam Levenson

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron

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

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James M. Barrie

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
Judy Garland

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
Black Elk

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
Rita Mae Brown

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
Diana Wynne Jones

We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cezanne

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
Barbara Walters

I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.
Jon Hamm

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
Edward Koch

I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it's in a rainbow or on a coffee mug or on a happy face.
Chris Kattan

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.
Morris Dees

I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.
Terry Riley

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
Jesse Brown

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.
Allan Sherman

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
Robert Motherwell

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
Joe Klein

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Karen Black

Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.
Annette O'Toole

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.
Luke Treadaway

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
Robert Bridges

It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. Davies

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.
Hoagy Carmichael

The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.
Robert Lowell

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
Peter S. Beagle

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Rainbow Translations

rainbow in Danish is regnbue
rainbow in Dutch is regenboog
rainbow in French is arc-en-ciel, arc en ciel
rainbow in German is regenbogen
rainbow in Italian is arcobaleno
rainbow in Spanish is arco iris

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