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Quotes About Rain

I was barely seventeen. I was ignorant, missus. We grew up ignorant in Limerick...we're mothers before we're women. And there's nothing here but rain and oul' biddies saying the rosary. I'd give me teeth to get out, go to America or even England itself.
~ Frank McCourt
I embraced a cloud, but when I soared it rained.
~ Frank O'Hara
Dreamt by a Man in a Field I am thinking of the dead Who are still with us. They are not like us, they are Young and beautiful, On their way in the rain To meet their lovers. On their way with their dark umbrellas, Always laughing, so quick, Like limbs flying back In a boat before night, So constant, Like the glass floats The fisherman use in Japan. But for them there is no moon, For us the same news We do not receive.
~ Frank Stanford
Light rain was falling, and a heavy prefrontal fog was beginning to move in as the Hardys arrived at the field. They walked to the tower and climbed the winding steps to the top. As they entered the control room, Lou Diamond, the tower chief, waved a greeting. A short, stocky, good-natured man, with crew-cut red hair, he nevertheless had an air of authority.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
I can't sleep and the rain is determined not to quit soliloquizing about you all night. I can't help but overhear, my dear.
~ Franz Kafka
The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.
~ Helen Wills Moody
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
I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
~ Eden Ahbez
I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
~ Florence Welch
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A lot of my background is in theatre, so when you're on location, and the wind is really blowing, it's raining, and you've got mud all over you, it really keeps you on your toes.
~ Kimberley Nixon
The 2012 superstorm known as Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc beyond the Eastern Seaboard and reached Northeast Ohio as well, with heavy rain, wind gusts of nearly 70 miles per hour and waves on Lake Erie reaching 15 to 18 feet.
~ Marcia Fudge
I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.
~ Deborah Moggach
'Philistines' was so beautiful, and it bored me to death. I never want to see another production where the rain splashes against a window and actors wander around in drab cardigans saying, 'I'm so bored.'
~ John Tiffany
The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing.
~ Deborah Moggach
One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.
~ Kate Winslet
My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
~ Al Jarreau
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
~ Dave Barry
Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.
~ Michael Servetus
Thank God I had football. I remember when it used to rain, all the kids would run outside and play football in the puddles, just splashing around, having the best time.
~ Raheem Sterling
I feel sorry for short people. When it rains, they're the last ones to know about it.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
There's a goose asleep in the rain!
~ Roger Hargreaves
When the heat of summer becomes unbearable, it is then that the clouds rain water.
~ Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Come, young rain of tears; come gentle hands of sorrow. It's not as terrible as you think.
~ Rolf Jacobsen