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Quotes About Clouds

How is it that the clouds still hang on you? HAMLET Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.
~ William Shakespeare
Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds (20) In ranks and squadrons and right form of war, Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol. The
~ William Shakespeare
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
~ William Wordsworth
In alto nel cielo c'era uno sbuffo di nuvole rosa e zafferano.
~ Winston Graham
quando il cielo si riempiva di nubi basse e il mare era grigio e triste come un amante abbandonato [...]
~ Winston Graham
But if it was merely happiness, then it had gone beyond the ordinary bounds and become something else, become a a kind of excessive pressure, so that the weight of a coffee cup in her hand, the speed of a cat crossing the garden below, the silent crash of two clouds seemed alsmost more than she could bear.
~ Claire Morgan
Meanwhile, the clouds are white and the sky is blue. Why is there so much God? At the expense of men.
~ Clarice Lispector
Why don't clouds fall, since everything else does? Because gravity is less than the strength of the air that keeps them up there. Clever, right? Yes, but one day they fall as rain. That is my revenge.
~ Clarice Lispector
Speaking for myself, I am only true when I'm alone. As a child, I always feared that I was about to fall off the face of the earth at any minute. Why do the clouds keep afloat when everything else drops to the ground? The explanation is simple: the gravity is less than the force of air that sustains the clouds. Clever, don't you think? Yes, but sooner or later they fall in the form of rain. That is my revenge.
~ Clarice Lispector
In the sky, through the window, white clouds were coming undone, running loose from the calm blue.
~ Clarice Lispector
Meanwhile the clouds are white and the sky is all blue. Why so much God. Why not a little for men.
~ Clarice Lispector
Niech na twym niebie nie bÄ™dzie chmur, a jeÅ›li bÄ™dÄ… to niech majÄ… kolor i zapach ró?y.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and floods with a golden luster the rocks, the river, the trees, and the entire jungle.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost as if a gigantic teapot had gone mad.
~ Heywood Broun
The moon, as if disgraced, trails rags of black cloud.
~ Hilary Mantel
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook, The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
~ Unknown
The next time you want to make a point,' Jude says, 'I beg you not to make it so dramatically.' His shoulder hurts, and she may be right about the iron poisoning. He certainly feels as though his head is swimming. But he smiles up at the trees, the looping electrical lines, the streaks of clouds. 'So long as you're begging,' he says.
~ Holly Black
Among the plausible niches for extraterrestrial life in our solar system, the clouds of Venus are among the most accessible and the least well explained.
~ David Grinspoon
It occurred to us that she and the girls read secret signs of misery in cloud formations, that despite the discrepancies in their ages something timeless communicated itself between them, as though she were advising the girls in her mumbling Greek, Don't waste your time on life.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
she and the girls read secret signs of misery in cloud formations, that despite the discrepancy in their ages something timeless communicated itself between them
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Slowly the golden memory of the dead sun fades from the hearts of the cold, sad clouds. Silent, like sorrowing children, the birds have ceased their song, and only the moorhen's plaintive cry and the harsh croak of the corncrake stirs the awed hush around the couch of waters, where the dying day breathes out her last.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
I studied what the Germans call the Naturwissenschaften, the natural sciences. Everything from biology to geology. How the clouds are formed, how the animals live, and what makes the rocks. So I know about nature. Period.
~ Vaclav Smil
It is a very beautiful day. The woman looks around and thinks: 'there cannot ever have been a spring more beautiful than this. I did not know until now that clouds could be like this. I did not know that the sky is the sea and that clouds are the souls of happy ships, sunk long ago. I did not know that the wind could be tender, like hands as they caress - what did I know - until now?
~ Unknown
High in the hazy sky, the snowfkakes looked tiny and all alike, but as they drifted past the narrow window of the sewing room, all were unique - long or round or triangular - as if they'd borrowed their shapes from the clouds they'd come from.
~ Ursula Hegi