Rain Water Quotes:

The rain, it raineth every day.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [74]

topic: Rain, Rain Water, Raining Day, Lear

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

- Langston Hughes

topic: Rain, Kissing, Water, Monsoons, Inspirational Rain

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Rain, Rivers, Water, Water Crisis, Water Is Life

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

- John Updike

topic: Life, Rain, Sky, Water Of Life, Water Fountain

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Nature, Rain, Adventure, Chisels, Rain And Snow

I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

- Roderick Haig-Brown

topic: Rain, Moving, Memorable, Moving Water, Water Fountain

The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean it value multiplied a million fold.

- Chanakya

topic: Rain, Ocean, Animal, Rain Water

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

- Laura Gilpin

topic: Moving, Rivers, Water, Lakes And Rivers, Moving Water

If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.

- Jan Erik Vold

topic: Years, Water, Would Be, Water Fountain, Water Is Life

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Art, Rain, Color, Water Of Life, Water Fountain

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.

- Mike McAlary

topic: Rain, Land, Water, Land And Water, Water Fountain

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Sarcastic, Nature, Ocean, Ocean Sea, Ocean Water

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.

- Adeline Knapp

topic: Mistake, Rain, Water, Summer Rain, Loveliness

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.

- William Ashworth

topic: Children, Rain, Rivers, Water Fountain, Water Resources

I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!

- Robert Bolt

source: Robert Bolt, Tim Bezant (1996). “A Man for All Seasons: A Play of Sir Thomas More”, p.57, Heinemann

topic: Rain, Good Luck, Beer, Rain Water

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

topic: Rain, Years, Water, Living Creatures, Rain Water

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

- William Carlos Williams

source: "The Red Wheelbarrow" l. 1 (1923)

topic: Rain, White, Water, Rain Water, Wheelbarrows

I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.

- Benazir Bhutto

topic: Father, Rain, Thinking, Rain Water, Good Rain

It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.' It's delicious and I can't stop eating it, that's what happens.

- Kyle Kinane

topic: Children, Rain, Water, Child Soldier, Rain Water

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.205, 谷月社

topic: Rain, New Orleans, People, Rain Water

Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled. Bushes were dangerous, and so were sea grass and rain water. There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end. Grandmother tried to discuss this with her, to no avail. Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.

- Tove Jansson

topic: Fear, Rain, Book, Rain Water

The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. So much depends upom a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

- John Green

topic: Rain, White, Water, Rain Water, Wheelbarrows

The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out from within them, except for the great sea, nor would the streams of rivers nor the rain-water in the sky exist but for the sea ; but the great sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

- Xenophanes

topic: Ocean, Rain, Blow, Rain Water

Take rainwater kept for several years, and mix a sextarius of this water with a pound of honey The whole is exposed to the sun for 40 days, and then left on a shelf near the fire. If you have no rain water, then boil spring water.

- Columella

topic: Spring, Rain, Fire, Spring Water, Rain Water