Rainy Sunday Quotes:

Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

- Susan Ertz

source: Anger in the Sky ch. 5 (1943)

topic: Inspirational, Sunday, Long, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

- Beverly Cleary

topic: Book, Reading, Sunday, Third Grade, Rainy Season

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.

- Mark Haddon

source: FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Apr 08, 2013

topic: Children, Book, Sunday, Sunday Afternoons, Rainy Sunday

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

- Roger Miller

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Positive, Inspirational Rain, Wet

God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

- Jack Kerouac

source: Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

topic: New York, Night, Thinking, Rainy Night, Rainy Sunday

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

- Thomas de Quincey

topic: Sunday, Afternoon, Earth, Sunday Afternoons, Rainy Sunday

Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice Ann Simpson to a chair and placed her in the furnace room. We forgot her, trooped upstairs to church, and were listening quietly to the sermon when a dreadful banging issued from the radiator pipes, persisting until someone investigated and brought forth Eunice Ann saying she didn't want to play Shadrach any more - Jem Finch said she wouldn't get burnt if she had enough faith, but it was hot down there.

- Harper Lee

topic: Sunday, Play, Class, Furnaces, Fatherless

Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.

- Jean-Dominique Bauby

topic: Couple, Children, Moving, Rainy Sunday, Floats

I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.

- S. J. Perelman

topic: Inspirational, Sunday, Pearls, Sunday Evening, Rochester