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My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me.
— Christina G. Rossetti, A Birthday.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
lord byron— Bride of Abydos (1814) Canto II, St. 20
If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.
vanna bonta— "Love Beyond Time"
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
mark twain— A Tramp Abroad (1880)
For coloured girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.
Ntozake Shange— Title of "Choreopoem" (1975)
One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy.
jean-louis gassée— Apple Confidential: The Real Story of Apple Computer, 1999
— As President of Apple Products, speaking on the Apple logo
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it — whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
harper lee— Pt. 2, ch. 23
— Atticus Finch
Beauty in this Iron Age must turn From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn Who hopes to wake the Future to arise In Phoenix -fashion, and to shine with rays To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes Of selfishness and lust have stained our days...
philip josé farmer— "Beauty in This Iron Age" in Starlanes #11 (Fall 1953); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
Somewhere over the rainbow , Way up high There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the rainbow Skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true .
yip harburg— "Over the Rainbow" in The Wizard of Oz (1939) - YouTube video
One of those passing rainbow dreams, Half light, half shade, which fancy's beams Paint on the fleeting mists that roll, In trance or slumber, round the soul!
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Fire Worshippers, Stanza 54.
Look, look, look to the rainbow Follow it over the hill and stream Look, look, look to the rainbow Follow the fellow who follows the dream.
— "Look to the Rainbow" by E. Y. Harburg (Yip Harburg) and Burton Lane from the musical play (and motion picture) Finian's Rainbow
I saw rain falling and the rainbow drawn On Lammermuir. Hearkening I heard again In my precipitous city beaten bells Winnow the keen sea wind. And here afar, Intent on my own race and place, I wrote.
Robert Louis Stevenson— Weir of Hermiston (published 1896), Dedication 'To My Wife' (1894)
Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky! Ayoung man will be wiser byand by; An old man's wit may wander ere he die.
Tennyson— Idylls of the King, 'The Coming of Arthur', l. 402-4 (1869)
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
william wordsworth— 1802 'My heart leaps up when I behold', complete poem (published1807).
Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: "There is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land" (Hosea 4:1). Yet in the midst of this tide of evil, the Virgin Most Merciful rises before our eyes like a rainbow, as the arbiter of peace between God and man.
pope pius x— Statement prior to World War I, quoted in Biographical profile at Living Water Community, and partially in A Treasury of Saints : 100 Saints : Their Lives and Times (2002) by Malcolm Day, and St. Mary's Catholic Church, Dubai
ye and I might meet with joy up in the rainbow
samuel rutherford— Letter 180 to John Gordon , Laird of Cardoness Castle
Finally she faltered; Saw at last, forsooth, Every gaudy color Is a bit of truth. Then the gates were opened; Miracles were seen; That instructed damsel Donned a gown of green; Wore it in a churchyard, All arrayed with care; And a painted rainbow Shone above her there.
nathalia crane— "The Vestal"
Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.
yuri gagarin— Statement of April 1961, as quoted in Warrior of Light : The Life of Nicholas Roerich : Artist, Himalayan explorer and visionary (2002) by Colleen Messina, p. 46
Military glory, that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.
Abraham Lincoln— Speech in the United States House of Representatives opposing the Mexican war (12 January 1848).
The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
kim stanley robinson— Ch. 15, p. 354
I pictured a rainbow you held it in your hands I had flashes but you saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon.
mike scott— "The Whole Of The Moon" · YouTube video
We are born for a higher destiny than earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, p. 299 (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song , and all about you will be beauty . There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
— Anonymous, a traditional Navajo song, as quoted in All Men Seek God: The Quest for Faith in the Words of Great Leaders and Thinkers (1968) by Dean Walley
A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning; But a rainbow at night Is the Shepherd's delight.
— Anonymous, old weather rhyme, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 655
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
— Gloria Gaither, as quoted in Pathway to Purpose : Women Answer God's Call to Leadership : A Workbook (1999) by Kathrine Giske
Somewhere over the rainbow, Way up high There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the rainbow Skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true.
— "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
— Lyrics by Yip Harburg, music by Harold Arlen, from The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
— Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, Ch. XI : Higher Laws
Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
Alfred Tennyson— Idylls of the King (published 1859-1885), The Coming of Arthur, line 401
