Hail Rain Quotes

#1. As the palm-tree standeth so straight and so tall, The more the hail beats, and the more the rains fall.

Simon Dach

#2. Decoding (a child's difficult) behavior is like looking at a rain wrapped tornado crossing the road in front of you. You see the fury of rain, hail, wind and debris, but you have to look real hard to see the driving force behind it.

Deborah A. Beasley

#3. The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though an impatient hand inside were striving to burst it open. But no hand was there, and it opened no more.

Charles Dickens

#4. Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms - liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail. But no matter the form, it's still water.

Robert Fulghum

#5. The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.

Iannis Xenakis

#6. Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog.

Ismail Kadare

#7. I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.

Maya Angelou

#8. The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#9. As frustrating as the battle for purity must be, I suppose it's easier if you've got company.

Kevin Roose

#10. None of us offered to shake hands. There was no advantage to letting somebody get hold of you.

Robert B. Parker

#11. Eskimos have five words for different kinds of snow, because they live with it and it is important to them. But the Aztec language has but one word for snow, rain, and hail.

Alan W. Watts

#12. Here, you can't avoid the changes. And you not only see them, you feel them. You are fully immersed, for better and for worse. You can't escape the truth when you're part of it, day in, day out, through all elements and seasons, no matter what it throws at you. Snow, rain, hail.

Gin Getz

#13. The best part of being on the platform that we are is being able to influence and affect so many people.

Jake Ellenberger

#14. Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#15. When I started having a couple of beers and loosening up, I realized how many years I had wasted going back to my hotel room alone when I could have gone and just had a beer or two.

Bradford Cox

#16. You have the colours of
Those jewels you so inordinately love,
And yet you seem -- like your excuses -- lame.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#17. How many meetings have you been in where the first dozen or so slides are full of words, and the person stands up there and repeats the words?

Eric Schmidt

#18. I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.

Anthony Liccione

#19. Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail shall close the door of the mighty Starbucks.

Lauren Myracle

#20. How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!

Thomas Jefferson

#21. The man who drinks Zambezi waters must always return to drink again.

Wilbur Smith

#22. When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.

Diane Ackerman

#23. When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

Helder Camara

#24. Global warming alarmists invariably try to make their case by resorting to rhetoric, dogma, opinion, and emotion. The closest thing to scientific data in their articles is the occasional chart claiming a poorly understood correlation between atmospheric CO2 and the Earth's temperature.

Walter Cunningham

#25. But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

David Korten

#26. And for some reason he had an unfolded white handkerchief draped over his head, possibly to ward off rain, or hail, or brimstone.

J.D. Salinger

#27. I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under;
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#28. I always think the toughest commentary is on a bad goalless draw. If I were assessing a young commentator, I would rate him on a game where nothing is happening.

Ian Darke

#29. I just read an article on the dangers of heavy drinking...scared the hell out of me. So that's it, after today...no more reading

Peter Griffin

#30. I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

Piper Perabo

#31. Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

David Macaulay

#32. Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

Emmanuel Jal

#33. Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.

Haruki Murakami