Bob Merrill quotes

Bob Merrill quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade?”
-- Bob Merrill

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“But first be a person who needs people. People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.”
-- Bob Merrill

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“If you're in California and it's raining, stay home, because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.”
“I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.”
“The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field as the tares, but shall the two cross-pollinate? The sheep graze near the goats, but shall they seek to interbreed? The unjust and the just enjoy the same rain and sunshine, but shall they forget their deep moral differences and intermarry? ... The Spirit-illuminated church will have none of this”
“Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.”

Source : Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1931). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: 1833-1838”
“Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey”
“He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.”
“If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.”
“There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.”

Source : Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.9, Macmillan
“Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.”

Source : Song: Rainy Day People, Album: Cold on the Shoulder, 1975
“Until you've been kissed on a rainy Parisian afternoon - you've never been kissed.”

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