(719 quotes found)
“A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.”
William Carlos Williams
“One way to find your place is likethe rain, a million requestsfor lodging, one that wins, findsyour cheek: you find your home.”
William Stafford
“If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?”
Tom Barrett
“The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.”
Zeno
“For the rain it raineth every day.”
William Shakespeare
“Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death.”
Martine Vermeulen
“When shall we three meet again,in thunder, lightning or in rain.”
Madelein L'Engle
“Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.”
William Least Heat Moon
“You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.”
William Langewiesche
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