Rained Quotes

#1. It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

Jim Butcher

#2. And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.

Tom Robbins

#3. The local farmers, of course, were bitching because the bean and corn harvests were going to be huge and the prices depressed. Of course, if it hadn't rained, they'd be bitching because their crops were small, even if the prices were high. You couldn't win with farmers.

John Sandford

#4. It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.

John Sexton

#5. Marie-Laure says, I heard that the diamond is like a piece of light from the original world. Before it fell. A piece of light rained to earth from God.

Anthony Doerr

#6. Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

Jerzy Kosinski

#7. I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.

Amity Gaige

#8. The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had rained organs.

Rupert Thomson

#9. It rained for a short time while I was running, but it was a cooling rain that felt good.

Haruki Murakami

#10. And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.

Tom Robbins

#11. Sometimes it rained, but mostly it was just dull, a land without shadows. It was like living inside Tupperware.

Bill Bryson

#12. It rained as if the gods were disconsolate, as if spring were a sorrow,

Claire Messud

#13. And The Darkness Rained Upon Them. The

Derek Landy

#14. Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not
keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote
places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.

Tryon Edwards

#15. The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.

Elmer Kelton

#16. It rained the day they brought us to Thurmond.
And it rained the day I walked out.

Alexandra Bracken

#17. Maybe one day I will meet her in real life. Her tears were my rain, her angry was thunder and lighting. I knew when it rained. I was doing something wrong, when It thundered I knew I had to write about her to make her happy. The Diary

Jeremy Limn

#18. It rained last night heavily, and now the skies are beginning to clear; it is a new fresh day. Let us meet that fresh day as if it were the only day. Let us start on our journey together with all the remembrance of yesterday left behind - and begin to understand ourselves for the first time.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#19. Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson

Aberjhani

#21. You might be a redneck if ... your high school basketball game got rained out.

Jeff Foxworthy

#22. The airliner-sized dragon blew apart in a monumental spray of blood and pulp. Great chunks of flesh the size of boulders rained down from the sky.
"The empire is striking back," Ambassador Syme observed, peering out the window beside CJ.

Matthew Reilly

#23. Thank God it has rained all day. I say thank God, though rain is no rarity, because it is the duty of every man to be thankful for whatever happens by the will of the Omnipotent Creator; yet it was not so agreeable to any of my party as a fine day would have been.

John James Audubon

#24. The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, 'Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your twinkling stars and infinite wonders and darkness. There's already enough beauty where you are.

Rachael Wade

#25. It rained a couple of hours ago - it rains every single day, world without end -

Katie Cotugno

#26. It made it feel impossible, quite honestly, because filming - you film come rain, come shine, come whatever. And it did rain a lot. And of course, that's what she must have gone through. Of course it rained; of course it was cold,you know, it really was quite hard to be out there in the rain.

Maggie Smith

#27. I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges.

Clive Anderson

#28. Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Sherman Alexie

#29. The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

James Longstreet

#30. You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.

Satchel Paige

#31. It rained cats and dogs non-stop at this wedding. Later during the reception, the rain stopped as the sun was setting, and the sky turned pink. The bride later said that this picture made the rainy day totally worth it!

Julie Roberts

#32. When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.

Tommy Lasorda

#33. I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

Margaret Atwood

#34. She had been with her share of schemers and men who were forever building castles in the sky. All of those dreams made out of clouds; when it rained - and it always did - they were left with nothing but the soggy shirts on their backs.

Ayana Mathis

#35. When a breeze blew, petals rained down on my upturned face, and I stopped and gasped, stunned by the beauty and sadness.

Ruth Ozeki

#36. One day it had rained before sunrise, and a soft spring wind had been blowing ever since, a soothing and persuading wind, that seemed to draw out the buds from the secret places of the dry twigs, and whisper to the roots of the rose-trees that their flowers would be wanted by and by.

George MacDonald

#37. When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.

Tommy Lasorda

#38. the one of insane geometries, of orange lightning, of fire that rained from trees like leaves falling, of the birds rising from the water their impossibly pure white wings spreading across the burning sky. As

Douglas Clegg

#39. He recited, "My mother was a bird of fire. She bore me swaddled over the ruined cities of my sisters. We rained a sea of flame upon our brother, and brought them aloft again. Transformed. Our mothers burned the cities. We keep the ruins.

Kameron Hurley

#40. On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Mark Haddon

#41. We were in the middle of a drought, and it hadn't rained for months and months and months. And that's when I knew that your father was like the rain. He was a miracle.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#42. When they were tired
Night rained her
thick dark sleep
upon their eyes.

Sappho

#43. That's right, Dragonbane. And brothers always stood together, the buffalo came when they were called, the grass grew taller and greener, and it never fucking rained. Get a grip, old man.

Richard K. Morgan

#44. Slavery is not the same as rain," she insisted. "I have been rained on and I have been sold. It is not the same. No man wants to be owned.

George R R Martin

#45. rained for three days. Thunder rumbled like cannon fire, lightning cracked and spit in the darkness. Then, when the storm's fury had weakened, the horizon lay

Lisa Bingham

#46. The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#47. Do you realize, Tyler,' says Anna-Louise, 'the entire time we were in the forest it rained steadily and not once did we approach a state of moistness? There was a storm and we didn't even know.

Douglas Coupland

#48. Alice was an odd girl, even for Ferenwood, where the sun occasionally rained and the colors were brighter than usual and magic was as common as a frowning parent.

Tahereh Mafi

#49. Maatsuyker, the wild island south of Tasmania where it rained most days of the year and the chickens blew into the sea during storms.

M.L. Stedman

#50. You can't put a title card at the head of the movie and say, "Well, we really had a bad problem. You know, the actor got sick and it rained this day and we had a hurricane."

George Lucas

#51. Alarm clocks, I felt, were nothing more than a plague rained down by an evil force, possibly even Lucifer himself.

Bart Hopkins

#52. Its roof sagged and let in water when it rained, its walls groaned and let in wind when it blew, and its doors creaked and let in hypocrites when it suited. There

Derek Landy

#53. Encouragement from any source is like a drop of rain upon a parched desert. Thanks to all the many others who rained on me when I needed it, and even when I foolishly thought I didn't.
(acknowledgements in The P.U.R.E.)

Claire Gillian

#54. Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

John Mayer

#55. Whoa, whoa! Hold up, there, kid. She lives in Forks, remember? So she gets rained on.

Stephenie Meyer

#56. I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.

Roald Dahl

#57. To the best of your knowledge, Charles, do villains ever permit themselves to be rained on?"

"Not to my knowledge, no, sir.

Sandra Marton

#58. 23 Yet he commanded the skies above and p opened the doors of heaven, 24 and he q rained down on them manna to eat and gave them r the grain of heaven. 25 Man ate of the bread of s the angels; he sent them food t in

Anonymous

#59. It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn't rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds flew and the clouds were white and sunshine glistened across the drenched land.

Michael Farris Smith

#60. All afternoon it rained, then
such power came down from the clouds
on a yellow thread,
as authoritative as God is supposed to be.
When it hit the tree, her body
opened forever.

Mary Oliver

#61. In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.

Colin Hay

#62. Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!

Hafez

#63. You're crying."
"I'm not."
"Right," he said mildly. "I suppose you got rained on.

Kristin Cashore

#64. If it rained knowledge, I'd hold out my hand; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it.

Boswell

#65. Today I saw a red and yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that yesterday too, and it rained.

Woody Allen

#66. There have been seasons of my life when rejection rained down. And then there have been typhoons. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

Richard Paul Evans

#67. It rained a lot in New Hampshire, and when I skied, the snow was icy and hard, and the mountains were small.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#68. What if you didn't have time to draw them on one day? Or what if it rained and your eyebrows started dripping off? Hopefully her eye pencil is waterproof.

Lauren Barnholdt

#69. It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.

Will Rogers

#70. Seattle was a rabid film town in the '70s and '80s because it rained so much.

John Requa

#71. If he didn't fully understand where I came from, he understood who I was now
he knew how well done I liked my steak, knew the color of my toothbrush, the expression I made when I realized I'd forgotten to roll up my car window before it rained.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#72. What a day! She had gotten fired, sat in God-knows-what, got rained on, got caught in a traffic jam, been rejected three times, and, as if that weren't enough sponged on by a mooch of an alien knight who claimed he was protecting her from household appliances.
Knight of a Trillion stars

Dara Joy

#73. It was July. Crazy hot and dry. It hadn't rained in, like, sixty days. Drought hot. Scorpion hot. Vultures flying circles in the sky hot.

Sherman Alexie

#74. But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. A Confession was a book like that.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#75. If it never rained, nothing would grow.

Oprah Winfrey

#76. It had rained, she said, and I imagined the beads of small water on the windshield like a thousand eyes, or each drop a small imperfect reflection of a perfect moment.

Simon Van Booy

#77. It seemed impossible that he'd chosen to live here, at a latitude where spring was a semantic variation on winter, in a grid whose rigid geometry only a Greek or a builder of prisons could love, in a city that made its own gravy when it rained.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#78. This is fucking Washington! Who the hell has a below ground swimming pool? It rained 256 days of the year, for Pete's sake! On the off chance I found the blasted owners of it, I was going to put a bullet in their heads right then.

Eloise J. Knapp

#79. I embraced a cloud,
but when I soared
it rained.

Frank O'Hara

#80. It almost rained Saturday.The clouds hung low over the farm.The air felt thick.It smelled like rain.
In town,the sidewalks got damp, that was all.

Karen Hesse

#81. I used to get bummed out when it rained; then I realized that it's God's way of washing off hippies.

Demetri Martin

#82. Before the day there was only endless night. When the stars rained down from the skies, and giants and other unfathomable creatures roamed the land, there was a goddess who ruled over them all because she had been clever enough to figure out the secret of time and how to walk between worlds.

Scarlett Amaris

#83. I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.'

Barry Goldwater

#84. There is no way that you can know the taste of water unless you drink it or unless it has rained on you or unless you jump in the river.

Charles Manson

#85. We hadn't brought a tent. Even if it rained, we couldn't afford to blind ourselves like that when we slept.

Patricia Briggs

#86. For some reason, it often rained on the nights they met, and this night was no exception - a thin drizzle was falling outside.

Haruki Murikami

#87. Which drew from Bloch nothing more instructive than "Sir, I am absolutely incapable of telling you whether it has rained. I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them." "My

Marcel Proust

#88. Growing up in Florida, it rained a lot, so we spent a lot of time indoors. I used to love Frogger. I got a lot of use out of that and Ms. Pac-man on my little Atari.

Jennifer Sky

#89. You used to have the jokes about never fixing the roof until it rained. People were undoubtedly the same now, or worse. They might well wait until something happened that forced them to act; that something would almost certainly be unpleasant - most likely, serious. Yet

George R. Stewart

#90. I enjoyed that day, though we travelled slowly, though it was cold, though it rained.

Charlotte Bronte

#91. There will always be a storm. You may be rained on or cause the rain yourself. I much prefer the latter.

David Liss

#92. The person you love is 72.8% water, and it hasn't rained for weeks.

Johan Harstad

#93. Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.

John C. Hawkes

#94. It rained today. You sat with me. We listened to the pit-patter, felt the cold breeze and got drenched in countless emotions. We didn't say a word to each other.
Today, 'words' were mute spectators of our growing love.

Saru Singhal

#95. Change rained fast and furious on me for the next fortnight.

Robin Hobb

#96. Englishmen were rained on too often to come up with anything that imaginative.

Natasha Pulley

#97. I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.

Conor Oberst

#98. I don't remember yesterday. Today it rained.

Big Joe Turner

#99. Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

E.L. Doctorow

#100. There were several meals at which it snowed food and rained drink, as hobbits say.

J.R.R. Tolkien