Rain Washes Away Quotes

#1. The stars are reliable, unlike any other thing in this crazy world. Leaves fall off the trees. Snow melts. Rain washes away all the things we wrote on the pavement. But the stars are relentless in shining.

Hannah Brencher

#2. Impersonal things that dominate our time and imagination offer extravagant promises of control and knowledge. But they also squeeze all sense of mystery and wonder and reverence out of our lives.

Eugene H. Peterson

#3. Character is revealed through action.

Aristotle.

#4. My soul hath wrestled in it. . . . My belly was troubled in seeking it; therefore shall I possess a good possession.4

San Juan De La Cruz

#5. As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is the fierce light of the life force itself

Eamon Grennan

#6. When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

Mark Steyn

#7. Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.

Lee Scott

#8. The most fun thing about doing the show is that, as a nerd, the fun has been in learning and having it be like a grad school for me, every day. Every moment is a new experience. Every conversation is a new gain.

Steven Yeun

#9. I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat.

Eliot Paulina Sumner

#10. The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.

Dave Matthews

#11. Well, too bad, boys - life wasn't an epi of Doctor Who. And you know what?

J.R. Ward

#12. To be a rainbow in someone's cloud is commendable, but I prefer to be the rain because it dampens cheeks and washes away tears.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this, said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around.

J.K. Rowling

#14. There can be no compromise with war.

Jeannette Rankin

#15. Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different ... in the end, it has made me the happiest.

Lindsey Stirling

#16. Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.

Scott Sanders

#17. The rain washes too many secrets away. It isn't good where they collect.

Tessa Gratton

#18. A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.

George M. Church

#19. Just hanging around the house is deadly--get out and experience the world together; do things you've never done before!

Laura C. Schlessinger