Summer Rain Quotes:

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

- Langston Hughes

topic: Summer, Rain, Humor, Humor And Laughter, Humor Laughter

The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.203, Penguin

topic: Summer, Rain, Reality, Summer Rain

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

- Hosea Ballou

topic: Inspirational, Summer, Rain, Sound Of Rain, Sunbeams

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

- John Ruskin

topic: Change, Weather, Different, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Summer, Fall, Rain, Summer Rain, Summer To Fall

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

- John Ruskin

source: "Inner Journey". Book by Ratna Joshi (p. 99), January 14, 2010.

topic: Nature, Rain, Sunshine, Inspirational Nature, Inspirational Rain

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

- Dolly Parton

source: Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Rain, Obstacles And Challenges

A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another.

- Anne Rice

source: Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.50, Ballantine Books

topic: Summer, Rain, Night, Summer Rain, Wisteria

There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

- Ranulph Fiennes

topic: Adventure, Weather, Inappropriate, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

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

Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was so long in the outer brightness, I am not used to this upheaval: Being at home in my own soul, Never to be led elsewhere. I want nothing, I long for nothing, I hum gently the sounds of childhood, And I reach home astounded In the warm beauty of dreams. Heart, how torn you are, How blessed to plow down blindly, To think nothing, to know nothing, Only to breathe, only to feel.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Summer, Dream, Blessed, Summer Rain, Astounded

Oh my love, it's you that I dream of Oh my love, since that day Somewhere in my heart I'm always Dancing with you in the summer rain

- Belinda Carlisle

source: Song: Summer Rain, Album: Runaway Horses, 1989

topic: Summer, Dream, Song, Summer Rain

Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.

- Marguerite Duras

topic: Summer, Rain, Sky, Summer Rain

Just as teardrops, when they are large and round and compassionate, can leave a long strand washed clean of discord, the summer rain as it washes away the motionless dust can bring to a person's soul something like endless breathing.

- Muriel Barbery

topic: Summer, Rain, Dust, Summer Rain, Teardrop

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

- Benjamin Alire Saenz

topic: Summer, Rain, Boys, Summer Rain, Summer Sun

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

- Karen Russell

topic: Weather, Kingdoms, Kind, Older Sister, Summer Rain

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

source: "The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Solstice, Invincibility

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

- Langston Hughes

source: Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.525, University of Missouri Press

topic: Happiness, Laughter, Humor, Humor And Laughter, Humor Laughter

Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.

- Teresa Medeiros

source: Teresa Medeiros (2013). “The Vampire Who Loved Me”, p.216, Amber House Books

topic: Summer, Lost Love, Rain, Summer Rain

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

- Bill Bowerman

topic: Motivational, Running, Not Giving Up, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Summer, Rain, Car, Summer Rain

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

- Langston Hughes

source: "Harlem" l. 1 (1951)

topic: Love, Dream, Sun, Dry Up, Raisins

All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

topic: Summer, Rain, Flower, Summer Rain

Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Summer, Tombstone, Rain, Summer Rain

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

- Jonathan Swift

source: Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Laputa, etc." ch. 5 (1726)

topic: Summer, War, Science, Sunbeams, Cucumbers

The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.

- Jack Gilbert

source: Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Dance Most of All: Poems”, p.23, Knopf

topic: Summer, Rain, Night, Summer Rain, Empty Streets

It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing.

- Paul Torday

topic: Summer, Running, Rain, Miracles Of God, Summer Rain

I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

- Charley Pride

source: Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

topic: Summer, Rain, Horizon, Summer Rain

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

- Billy Connolly

topic: Being Happy, Weather, Clothes, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport. Tanks from the Taman Division stood beneath the dripping trees around Moscow University with their field kitchens and command trucks. This was not a new sight to me: the Soviet tanks had rested like that beneath the trees of the parks in Prague, late in another August twenty-three years before. Now they had invaded and crushed one more country -- their own.

- Neal Ascherson

topic: Summer, Country, Rain, Summer Rain, Prague

We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever striving to create and maintain an ethical balance. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of summer rain under the street lamps or the great flashing glare of artillery against a night sky – such brutal beauty is beyond dispute.

- Anne Rice

topic: Summer, Rain, Struggle, Summer Rain, Shimmer