Quotes About Thunderstorms

#1. Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

Helen McCloy

#2. He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armor shouting All the Gods are bastards!

Terry Pratchett

#3. Well, I was born in Louisiana, but I grew up in South Carolina, which both are definitely very different than LA, but I miss the thunderstorms.

Ashley Scott

#4. Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

Criss Jami

#5. Somehow, Matheus expected the night he died to be fraught with weather straight out of the Old Testament: thunderstorms and hurricane winds and floods with arks.

Amy Fecteau

#6. I'm from Cleveland. I like thunderstorms; I like a little rain in my life.

The Miz

#7. For once the sky was clear, the high Ramtops standing out crisp and white like the brides of the sky (with their trousseaux stuffed with thunderstorms)

Terry Pratchett

#8. With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,
flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one
end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist
attacks, Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of
the Pledge of Allegiance?

Jay Leno

#9. We just wanted a perfect life, with perfect smiles and perfect blue skies, but instead, we ended up with the gloomy grey clouds and thunderstorms.

Shanora Williams

#10. Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.

Soren Kierkegaard

#11. Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms ... the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon and hydrated stars ...

Brandi L. Bates

#12. I can't believe you said that about fire ants and thunderstorms! You are such a Houstonist!

Wil Wheaton

#13. All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.

W. H. Auden

#14. Tate always loved the rain. She came alive in it, and I hadn't been able to enjoy seeing her like this in years. Part of me always wondered what magic she saw in thunderstorms, and part of me didn't need to know. Just watching her was like hearing music in my head.

Penelope Douglas

#15. Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.

Lisa Kleypas

#16. Now, instead of treating bad writing days as random, unavoidable disasters to be weathered, like thunderstorms, I started treating them as red flags.

Rachel Aaron

#17. When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour, or smile and look for rainbows.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. The ultimate goal of a meteorologist is to set up differential equations of the movements of the air and to obtain, as their integral, the general atmospheric circulation, and as particular integrals the cyclones, anticyclones, tornados, and thunderstorms.

Andrija Maurovic

#19. books, teapots, thunderstorms, bridges, street musicians, coming attractions

Marty Asher

#20. But too much reading had taken its toll. William found that he now thought of prayer as a sophisticated way of pleading with thunderstorms.

Terry Pratchett

#21. Every second a hundred bolts of lightning streak to Earth across the globe as the electric charges that build up within storm clouds are attracted by the positively charged ground. Earth experiences about 40,000 thunderstorms a day.

Bill Bryson

#22. My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
Holds up each summer day and shakes
It out suspiciously, lest swarms
Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there ...

Philip Larkin

#23. We were thunderstorms and sunlight all at once.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#24. The interesting pyrotechnics of the day had played a part - how could you write while pocket thunderstorms kept coming and going over the water?

Stephen King

#25. this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures.

Sanober Khan

#26. The truth," said Amar, taking a step closer to me, "is that you look neither lovely nor demure. You look like edges and thunderstorms. And I would not have you any other way.

Roshani Chokshi

#27. When she shines we all bask in her happiness, but when the thunderstorms come in, let me warn you, find a faraway hiding hole. Dorothy Broadbelt, lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth 1.

Suzanne Crowley

#28. If you had planned to come to Crawford in the middle of the hot summer in August, no one would have come with you, if you had planned it. But spontaneously, we have now been here 11 days in the most intense heat that you can imagine of west Texas. Some of the most intense heat thunderstorms.

Ann Wright

#29. In referance to flying through thunderstorms; "A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At the time of incident he would gladly return the entire amount for the privilege of being elsewhere.

Ernest K. Gann

#30. A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Randall Jarrell

#31. A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or six times.

Randall Jarrell

#32. Women? Women are like ... thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.

Brandon Sanderson

#33. Just as Manda Lewis's impressions of the world had been informed by her reading
leading her to expect balls, duels, and conveniently timed thunderstorms out of life
so, too, had mine; but what I expected was intellectual commerce between equals.

Marie Brennan

#34. The warmth returned, but it was the mellow, genial warmth of autumn that rejoiced at the thought of evening thunderstorms and the cool of morning, which had been sorely lacking during the searing summer months, leaving the land thirsty. The

Nina George

#35. BLAM! BLOOEY!
Twin thunderstorms struck Chesapeake Bay at about the same hour two weeks apart in the last spring and summer of the eighth decade of the twentieth century of the Christian era and bracketed our story like artillery zeroing in.

John Barth

#36. The world was often ugly and painful, filled with hate, sadness, and despair. But Aria? She made sense in a senseless world. She was the rainbow to my everlasting thunderstorms.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#37. When I was little, I used to run out into the rain and let the water run all over me. Then one day I saw lightning split a tree nearly in half. That pretty much took the joy out of prancing around in thunderstorms.

Wendy Mass

#38. She made an appearance to offer me courage, and I worried about her appearance. Shame. Such a worrywart I am. I miss miracles blooming before my eyes: I concentrate on a fading star and miss the constellation. I overlook dazzling thunderstorms worrying whether I have laundry hanging.

Rabih Alameddine

#39. I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.

Tana French

#40. The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.

Jean-Francois Beauchemin

#41. You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark nights.

Amit Ray

#42. Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Friedrich Schiller

#43. In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.

Henryk Sienkiewicz