Thunderhead Quotes

#1. There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.

Ann Brashares

#2. We collide like two forceful storm clouds creating a thunderhead, with violence and darkness, and bright flashes of angry electricity that will raze the land to the ground. But when the fire dies out, the land will be reborn.

Erica Chilson

#3. Kevin said, "All your clothes are black." Karla's brows drew together. "Not exactly." She pointed out different items. "Onyx, charcoal, thunderhead. Shall I go on?

Regina Duke

#4. The elms and the poplars were turning their ruffled backs to a sudden onslaught of wind, and a black thunderhead loomed above Ramsdale's white church tower when I looked around me for the last time.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. In that darkness, an enormous face appeared just in front of his. A face of blackness, yet faintly traced in the dark. It was wide, the breadth of a massive thunderhead, and extended far to either side, yet it was somehow still visible to Kaladin. Inhuman. Smiling.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. Time to make herself scarce because, hell, she didn't want to pass that thunderhead on her way out.

Katherine McIntyre

#7. The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.

Dag Hammarskjold

#8. I liked being in the spotlight.

Scott Caan

#9. It's not that I haven't had a good life. It's that I hadn't allowed myself to live a great one.
- from the essay Dear Someone, Amazed.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#10. I was always sad as a child, for as long as I can think back. I hated crowds of people, and used to sit in a corner by myself, just thinking.

Greta Garbo

#11. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#12. On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

John Hoeven

#13. HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND:
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings,
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

William Shakespeare