Top 32 Pattering Quotes
#1. By blood and faith, Jews are God's chosen, and have no need for 'dialogue' with any gentile.
Bruce Edwards Ivins
#2. Saving a life isn't just pulling a friend from the fire," he explains, the daredevil playing in his wet,
excited eyes. "It's thereafter keeping him from the fire. Saving a life means saving it over and over.
Daryl Banner
#3. There they sit, with everyone thinking no more of them than they might of a pretty odd lot of cabbages, yet half the time they're pattering and clattering away at one another. Why? What is it they patter about? That's what I want to know.' I
John Wyndham
#4. Her voice was the pattering of drizzle on the misty surface, infused with nourishment and despair and acceptance.
Pam Godwin
#5. Outside, the rain was still falling steadily; he could hear it pattering on the glass skylight at the far end of the room and cascading into the water-spouts. Inside, no one stirred; all were dozing like himself over their liqueur glasses, pleasantly conscious that they were in the dry.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#6. As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
Lance Morrow
#7. He could hear rain pattering on the thatch, like a million mice line-dancing.
Tom Holt
#8. I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan of the forest vanquished.
Henry Van Dyke
#9. A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
Voltaire
#10. Know someone you hate? Give their kid a kazoo!
Dana Gould
#11. The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.
Sherwood Smith
#12. Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?
Louis Sachar
#13. I look at him, not because he just told me to, but because of the word he used. Baby. It does the kind of thing to my chest that makes me feel uncomfortable - the squeezing, tightening, pitter-pattering bullshit. Ugh, knock it off, heart. You've got no business reacting to him.
J.M. Darhower
#14. Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist breath whistling through willow reeds; a pattering beat background to the mourner's melody. Rain is a soft song of compassion for the brokenhearted.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#15. It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.
DeForest Soaries
#16. The rain is a noisy thing, splashing and pattering and rattling the rooftops.
Neil Gaiman
#17. I had nothing to do but listen to the pattering of the fountains and take medicine and throw it up again. It was dangerous recreation, but it was pleasanter than traveling in Syria.
Mark Twain
#18. I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.
Martin O'Malley
#19. The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#20. A talented executive would be somebody who knows how to surround themselves with a lot of people that will make him look good. You could say that about a politician or you could say that about a head of a major corporation or what have you. The people you surround yourself with are very important.
Clint Eastwood
#21. My heart is a field of lilies blooming under a pane of glass, pitter-pattering to life like a rush of raindrops.
Tahereh Mafi
#22. The rain was pouring down again. The wind came in fitful gusts. The depressing sound of the pattering rain nearly drove them mad. By
Agatha Christie
#24. Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#25. That flopping or pattering was monstrous--I could not look upon the degenerate creatures responsible for it. I would keep my eyes shut till the sound receded toward the west.
H.P. Lovecraft
#26. I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.
Richard Ernst
#27. Also surprising to scientists have been the recently documented virgin births in captivity of several types of sharks - the hammerhead, the bonnethead (also known as the shovelhead), and the blacktip.
Karen Shanor
#28. Nonetheless, in all cases matter tells spacetime how to curve, and spacetime tells matter how to move.
Lisa Randall
#29. I heard raindrops in the night
Pattering upon my eaves,
Like a pleasing lullaby
Easing me back to sleep,
Which I thought was odd a bit,
For I awoke because of it.
Pepper Blair
#30. When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
Yayoi Kusama
#31. You want to give the biggest klutz who ever walked the earth a sailboat? I might run over someone."
"Just make sure they deserve it," he answered without missing a beat.
Donna Grant
#32. And that night he couldn't sleep, but lay looking out at the light June night which was full of lonely whisperings and rustlings and the pattering of feet. The air was sweet with the smell of flowers.
Tove Jansson
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