Quotations About Weather I

Snowflakes are kisses from heaven.

Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. ~Saint Basil


A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. ~Rachel Carson


There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. ~Don Delillo


Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main...
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes


The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~Mark Twain


There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ~Annie Dillard


For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ~George Gissing


The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency. ~Susan Allen Toth


The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. ~e.e. cummings


What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. ~Jane Austen


Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply....
~Edna St Vincent Millay


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo


The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder. ~Margorie Kinnan Rawlings


Bad weather always looks worse through a window. ~Author Unknown


There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. ~Clyde Moore


There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~Arnot Sheppard


I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness. ~Adeline Knapp