Rainbow famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
-- Aberjhani -
There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
-- Al Franken -
Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.
-- Albert Goldbarth -
But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
I kind of view everybody like a rainbow. Everybody on the planet has all the colors of the rainbow inside.
-- Alexia Fast -
I'd rather see the world as a rainbow than endless shade of gray.
-- Amani -
Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it
-- Amit Ray -
We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow
-- Amos Lee -
They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.
-- Anita Diament -
I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads.
-- Anne Robinson -
If you want the rainbow, then you must have the rain.
-- Annette Hanshaw -
If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
-- Augustus -
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
-- Barbara Walters -
Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow 'burn their toast a lot,' said Pooh
-- Benjamin Hoff -
There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
-- Beth Ditto -
Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
-- Billy Joel -
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
-- Black Elk -
That's human nature - we want to completely rewrite history so it can be comfortable. Without getting too profound, I'm pretty sure that's where the invention of the afterlife comes from. "We don't really become worm food. We go to a magical place with bunnies and rainbows."
-- Bobcat Goldthwait -
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
-- Carl Sandburg -
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
-- Carl Sandburg -
I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.
-- Carly Rae Jepsen -
There's no way out of this, it's stark: live or die. Every given moment a bubble that bursts. Step on, from one to the next, ever onwards, a rainbow of stepping stones, each bursting softly as your foot touches and passes on. Till one step finds only empty air. Till that step, live.
-- Carol Birch -
Seasons are like life. Some seasons are better than others. Some have more sun and rainbows. Others have storms and tornadoes. Some have both. You have to accept that, and bring colour and light to the season you're in as best you can, and always look forward to the next season.
-- Cathy Lamb -
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.
-- Charles Darwin -
A rainbow every morning who would pause to look at? The wonderful which comes often or is plentifully about us is soon taken for granted. Th at is practical enough. It allows us to get on with life. But it may stultify if it cannot on occasion be thrown off . To recapture now and then childhood’s wonder, is to secure a driving force for occasional grown-up thoughts.
-- Charles Scott Sherrington -
The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest...
-- Charles Tennyson Turner -
All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin
-- Clive Barker -
Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.
-- Denis Johnson -
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
-- Diana Wynne Jones -
... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.
-- Diane Arbus -
We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them
-- Diane Ravitch -
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow
-- Douglas Pagels -
In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!
-- Dr. Seuss -
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
-- Ed Koch -
My friends, welcome to the other side of the rainbow
-- Ed Murray -
The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.
-- Eduardo Galeano -
...what good would it do to shutter your windows, never dream of rainbows or find hope in promises? Why choose to walk away rather than hold your ground and fight for love?
-- Ellen Hopkins -
I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow colours, is a simple way to hopefully spread a little joy.
-- Emma Green Tregaro -
He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.
-- Erin Morgenstern -
Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.
-- Ernst Haas -
She asks why I like her. Might as well ask Why I breathe. Maybe tomorrow I won't Breathe or like her Anymore. Maybe tomorrow the tides Will stop. Maybe tomorrow will bring No more rainbows. Maybe tomorrow She will stop Asking useless questions.
-- Gail Carson Levine -
My God, I have never thanked Thee for my 'thorn!' I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but never once for my 'thorn;' I have been looking forward to a world where I shall get compensation for my cross as itself a present glory. Teach me the glory of my cross; teach me the value of my 'thorn.' Show me that I have climbed to Thee by the path of pain. Show me that my tears have made my rainbow.
-- George Matheson -
Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.
-- George Saunders -
When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow?
-- George Steiner -
I wonder why / no one ever told me / that the rainbow / and the treasure / were both within me.
-- Gerald Jampolsky -
The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.
-- Gerald Massey -
Einstein was wrong! I"M the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!
-- Grant Morrison -
The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.
-- Gregory Maguire -
Life without dreams is like a rainbow without colours.
-- Greyson Chance -
Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
-- Haile Selassie -
Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
-- Henri Matisse -
The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.
-- Hilda Doolittle -
In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.
-- Hoagy Carmichael -
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
-- Hortense Calisher -
Color is like food for the spirit - plus it's not addictive or fattening.
-- Isaac Mizrahi -
Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona-a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality.
-- Jack Donovan -
What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
-- Jack Kerouac -
At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object.
-- James Elkins -
And the sun had on a crown Wrought of gilded thistledown, And a scarf of velvet vapor And a raveled rainbow gown; And his tinsel-tangled hair Tossed and lost upon the air Was glossier and flossier Than any anywhere.
-- James Whitcomb Riley -
The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.
-- Jane Bowles -
One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colours of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn’t dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy.
-- Jean-Louis Gassee -
Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.
-- Jenkin Lloyd Jones -
There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.
-- Jerome K. Jerome -
Nobody ever had a rainbow baby until they had the rain
-- Jim Croce -
Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.
-- Jim Lehrer -
Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. You special, miraculous, unrepeatable, fragile, fearful, tender, lost, sparkling ruby emerald jewel, rainbow splendor person. It's up to you.
-- Joan Baez -
When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?
-- Joan Smalls -
Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
-- Joe Klein -
The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.
-- Johan Huizinga -
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
-- John H. Vincent -
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
-- John Vance Cheney -
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. [So when you are crying remember also to anticipate and look for the rainbow.]
-- John Vance Cheney -
Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.
-- Johnny Vander Meer -
No doubt, love comes in many colors of the rainbow.
-- Jon Jones -
Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
-- Joseph Addison -
I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.
-- Joseph McCarthy -
In Isleta the rainbow was a crack in the universe. We saw the barest of all life that is possible. Bright horses rolled over and over the dusking sky.
-- Joy Harjo -
Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?
-- Judy Garland -
When I die I have visions of ***** singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.
-- Judy Garland -
Id love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.
-- Kandyse McClure -
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
-- Karen Black -
Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?
-- Karen Marie Moning -
You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow.
-- Karen White -
…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.
-- Kate Bornstein -
... we banked around until we found a rainbow in the dark. It was on this occasion that I discovered that Granuaile had never heard of Ronnie James Dio. My shock at this news was such that I almost completely missed the fact that we were traveling on Bifrost, the rainbow bridge to Asgard.
-- Kevin Hearne -
Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
-- Khalil Gibran -
I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed.
-- Kiersten White -
The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
-- Kim Stanley Robinson -
I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.
-- Kreayshawn -
For the young, let me tell you the sky has turned brighter. There's a glorious rainbow that beckons those with the spirit of adventure. And there are rich findings at the end of the rainbow. To the young and to the not-so-old, I say, look at that horizon, follow that rainbow, go ride it.
-- Lee Kuan Yew
