Zitat des Tages über Regen / Rain:
Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
I've kissed in the rain so many times. I think one of my first kisses was in the rain. It was in Washington, D.C., with some kid named Dash, in eighth grade. It was in the rain.
That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing.
I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.
I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.
It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?
I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.
I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.
I believe that people, regardless of their station in life, should be able to sit down at a table to a meal - inside away from the heat and cold, the rain and the snow.
Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.
I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
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.
Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.
I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!
The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.
It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
I like rain, actually.
Reading 'The Third Sex' feels a bit like flying in a veering helicopter over a rain forest that is disappearing before one's eyes.
There is winter in L.A., there is rain in L.A. But there is no rain on 'Entourage.'
I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.