Quotes About Rain

Water begins to boil in the kettle; it starts as a private, secluded sound, pure as rain, and grows to a steady, solipsistic bubbling.

Wishin'   you were here don't place you in the old wing chair. Face you   in the photos, china, art on parlor walls. It's raining in my heart.

Because people from Sacramento also were afraid of pretty much every type of weather—rain, snow, drought—it was all frightening

He stepped into Tommy's hug like a traveler in the rain steps into a bus station. It wasn't home, but that didn't mean he wasn't grateful to be out of the cold.

His heart felt like an aging cardboard box in the rain. Only the memory of what he was supposed to be held him up.

Everyone wants a world without sadness, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

Paved with gold, no - but, yes, diamonds appear on the ground in the rain

Nonsense!" his father explained in bad grace. "It's a pointless luxury. To own a yacht is like standing in the rain and ripping apart thousand dollar bills, someone once said.

You know, we queens loathed rain at the beach, small cocks, and reality, I think. In that order.

I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn't see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis.

My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.

Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time.

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. That all says Pacific Northwest to me. Salmon. It really only exists on the Western side of the Cascades.

I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.

And as he took me into his arms, the rain didn't matter at all.

Around the cabin, you can smell woodsmoke on the breeze. The people burn their brush piles a day or two after the first chilly rain, build their first fires in the fireplace. As much as the red and gold leaves on the mountainside, it is how you know the holidays are coming near.

Trees help reduce storm water runoff by intercepting falling rain and holding a portion of it on the leaves and bark. A mature tree can hold 100 gallons of water on its many surfaces during a rainstorm. Part of this water soon evaporates and the rest is gradually released into the soil below.

Thankfully the rain had softened to a light drizzle, but the murky gray of the sky painted a dreary mausoleum atmosphere.

There are a lot of truths in this world. When it rains it pours. It's always darkest before the dawn. He who smelt it dealt it.

to catch runoff water from the roof for laundry purposes; when it did not rain, a big tank wagon

choosing sites for the Wild West to play-began to show up in greatly diminished receipts. Losses mounted as the decrepit old tub chugged south. By the time they neared New Orleans, Cody decided that he'd better go on ahead and look into Pony Bob's arrangements himself. At the site of the exposition, he hired a hack and headed through a pouring rain for the show grounds. The first man he saw there was traveling across the arena in a rowboat. Fortunately, Cody was

Streets full of water; please advise.

Streets flooded. Please advise.

All at once she could hear the sullen patter of the rain and sense the sigh of the wind behind it. She remembered the sound, because it had rained like that the day Mom was buried, the day they lowered her into that little rectangle of darkness.