Clouds Quotes

• The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . . . then a cloud drifted across the moon. . . . They were gone.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Air
  • Moon
  • Clouds

• You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Eye
  • Speed
  • Glances

• Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature.

  

  Willie Soon
  • Water
  • Temperature
  • Rainfall

• There is some CO2-water vapor feedback. But it's not operating on a global scale. The modellers cannot accurately separate water vapour from the effects of clouds and rainfall.

  

  Willie Soon
  • Effects
  • Feedback
  • Rainfall

• the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

  

  Anaximenes of Miletus
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Wind

• In thinking back to when we had our big glitch, I remember seeing it get light outside the window. We were in the clouds; I'm pretty sure we got hit by lightning.

  

  Pete Conrad
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Pretty

• Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.... Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Meadows
  • Pollutions

• You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • Time
  • Money
  • Waiting

• Without clouds we wouldn't have rain. Without rain there is no water, no crops and no food for you and me. Humans would not exist without the sun, heat, water and oxygen from plants.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Food
  • Water
  • Sun

• Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

  

  Mary Todd Lincoln
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Heaven

• In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.

  

  Andy Behrman
  • Clouds

• Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Perfect
  • Sky
  • Clouds

• England, with her climate of more than vernal freshness, and in whose summer skies, and rich autumnal clouds, the observer of Nature may daily watch her endless varieties of effect.. ..to one brief moment caught by the artist from fleeting time..

  

  John Constable
  • Time
  • May
  • Nature

• What if everyone goes on the endless road Sooner or later Over the clouds to the sky Be sure to wait for me. And then, we will talk away About our countless memories.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Road
  • Memories
  • Sky

• There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Air
  • Animal
  • Sun

• I, like everybody else, have a certain fear of heights, and I have to be very careful when I am in the clouds, but it is also what I love; it is my domain, so when you love something, you don't have fear.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Fear
  • Clouds

• The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Wisdom
  • Clouds
  • Estates

• Among the plausible niches for extraterrestrial life in our solar system, the clouds of Venus are among the most accessible and the least well explained.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Life
  • Clouds

• Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Fear
  • Sky
  • Jealousy

• Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Contrails are denser and block sunlight much more than natural cirrus clouds.

  

  David Travis
  • Sunlight
  • Denser
  • Contrails

• You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Painting
  • Paint
  • Myth

• The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Road
  • Fly
  • Rain

• Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Clouds
  • Deep Waters
  • Sea Of Thought

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