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Quotes About Umbrellas

Too often, bridal shows are boring - I love including a small, unexpected element to make it interesting, like the removable skirts and umbrellas in seasons past.
~ Reem Acra
All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.
~ E. M. Forster
I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.
~ Cassandra Clare
Oh, pestiferous parasols!" grumbled Sorrel.
~ Cornelia Funke
Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.
~ M. J. Rose
Between the trees, on gentle and too cleverly irregular slopes of sweet green grass, the bright umbrellas shaded the hotel's guests from the unfaltering radiance of the Lado-Acheson sun.
~ William Gibson
My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.
~ China Mieville
Life is an adventure," Karen's mother used to tell her, "so be sure you experience it when it happens." It was one of Grace Tyler's favorites, one of several rules in her "Mom" arsenal, along with the ones about always having umbrellas and clean underwear and quarters for the pay phone.
~ Unknown
The people on the platform stood watching from under large black umbrellas that shone with wetness
~ Paul Theroux
Now a theist, he thought he should behave like one, even if it meant him during the fussy, time-wasting, botheration of it all! the bells, the crowds, the umbrellas, the notices, the bustle, the perpetual arranging and organizing, and, worst of all, the hymns and organ music.
~ Philip Zaleski
These heads sheltered by umbrellas be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine of Cleopatra or Fenichka live with their own stories
~ Suman Pokhrel
Rain never understands why people hide under their umbrellas! Let us make a surprise to the rain by closing our umbrellas!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The killer lived in the first room. My eyes immediately searched for collateral evidence. There were two women's watches lying on the ground next to his mattress. There was a heap of female clothing and umbrellas in the room and some ligatures were also lying around. It seemed like Aladdin's cave to me.
~ Unknown