Raining Quotes 

Johnson approached a strongly fortified position by outflanking it, or burrowing under it, or surprising the defenders from the rear, or raining down obstacles upon them from the sky, or starving them into submission? Rarely, and then only reluctantly, would he proceed directly from A to B, to him the shortest distance between two points was a tunnel.
William Raymond Manchester
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It was England in the autumn; the sun was, by definition, something that only happened when it wasn't cloudy or raining.

neil gaiman

— Ch. 9 (Anansi Boys (2005))

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Nothing's for certain, It could always go wrong, Come in when it's raining, Go on out when it's gone, We could have us a high time, Living the good life, Well I know

robert hunter

— "High Time" (Workingman's Dead (1970))

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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

iris murdoch

— Quoted in The Times (6 July 1989).

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I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

josé martí

— I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273

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It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled RAIN pour in from across the nation.

Sylvia Plath

— 1950

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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.


— Attributed to John Maynard Keynes by Hutton, Will (November 2, 2008). "Will the real Keynes stand up, not this sad caricature?". Guardian. Retrieved on 2009-02-05. 

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Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy

tori amos

— "Silent All These Years"

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raining gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.


— Arnold Schwarzenegger, in Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men (17 July 2012), p.22

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That instant shut My woeful self up in a mourning house, raining the tears of lamentation.

william shakespeare

— Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act V, scene 2, line 817.

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It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see wild flowers on distant hills.

Robert Loveman

— April Rain, Appeared in Harper's Magazine (May, 1901). Erroneously attributed to Swama Rama, who copied it in the Thundering Dawn, Lahore.

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