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Quotes About Clouds

When clouds appear like rocks and towers, the earth's refreshed by frequent showers.
~ Old weather saying
Deep black, brown, and gray cloud banks were shifting across the sky like tumbleweed across the plains.
~ Field and Stream, 1967
This starts when, in the far-off Sahara to the south, the harsh desert wind or khamsin begins to churn. It sweeps across the Mediterranean, rolling clouds like tumbleweeds, then dumps them on the Rock whence they trickle down dismally into Gib town.
~ Coronet, 1953
Sunbeams shine through the clouds, Faith shines through all my doubt.
~ Terri Guillemets
How I hate you, he said softly. If hate were stone I could build a tower into the clouds.
~ Jack Vance
Qué son las nubes, si no un pretexto para el cielo? ¿Qué es la vida, si no una huida de la muerte?
~ James Clavell
What are clouds But an excuse for the sky? What is life But an escape from death?
~ James Clavell
What was his death poem?" Omi said: "What are clouds But an excuse for the sky? What is life But an escape from death?' " Toranaga smiled. "Interesting.
~ James Clavell
Cloudy, cloudy is the stuff of stones," wrote the poet Richard Wilbur, and even in the atomic era it was hard to see how the physicist's swarming clouds of particles could give rise to the hard-edged world of everyday sight and touch.
~ James Gleick
The sky has a huge heart open for all clouds even on the gloomiest of days.
~ Munia Khan
Dream's elixir veered between light and clouds to save the blue..
~ Munia Khan
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
~ Frank Gifford
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
~ William Butler Yeats
Clouds are the sky's imagination.
~ Terri Guillemets
...gorgeous bright blue sky with some cloudacious beautiness on the fringe.
~ Terri Guillemets
Clouds open up into rain, You too should release your pain.
~ Terri Guillemets
Sunbeams out of the clouds Faith out of all my doubt.
~ Terri Guillemets
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
~ Terry Prachett
We were always together. And we were happy. Looking at clouds. Rocking on the swings. Lying in the sun. We loved being busy doing nothing.
~ Terry Spencer Hesser
on an autumn day of showery fitful sunshine, fine rain floating in the gleams like dust motes, clouds liquid with light, thick cobwebs in the hedge glittering with raindrops.
~ Tessa Hadley
He who formerly was reckless and afterwards became sober brightens up this world like the moon when freed from clouds.
~ The Dhammapada
If, however, we understand by the firmament that part of the air in which the clouds are collected, then the waters above the firmament must rather be the vapors resolved from the waters which are raised above a part of the atmosphere, and from which the rain falls.
~ Thomas Aquinas
...And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Now winter nights enlarge The number of their hours; And clouds their storms discharge Upon the airy towers...
~ Thomas Campion