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We'll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens - John Steinbeck quote

“We’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we’ll just say the hell with goin’ to work, and we’ll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an’ listen to the rain comin’ down on the roof – nuts!

– John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men, Chapter 1. George talks to Lennie about his version of the American Dream, a place they can call their own where they have the freedom to work or not and come and go as they please. It is a dream that will never come to pass.

Lucy van Pelt: You think this is a lot of rain? Rachel Carson says when the oceans were being formed, it rained day and night for centuries.
Linus van Pelt: It must have been very difficult to plan picnics!

– Charles M. Schulz

Sunshine always comes after the rain.

– Xi Jinping

Chinese President saying China to help Spain fight Covid-19 epidemic.

Human knowledge has been changing from the word ‘go,’ and people, in certain respects, behave more rationally than they did when they didn’t have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

– Herbert A. Simon

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

– Helen Garner

The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.

– Helen Wills Moody

I think the one that’s going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that’s probably going to be made into a film, which is ‘The Art of Racing in the Rain.’ I mean, it’s narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we’ll get to see.

– Garth Stein

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

– Haile Selassie

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It doesn’t rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.

– Hugh Laurie

I’d like to be able to use Storm’s powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.

– Halle Berry

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn’t have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

– Herbert Simon

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. ‘Black Rain’ was very much about choices. The message – we are what we chose to be.

– Graham Brown

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

– Honor Blackman

Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you’re not James Bond.

– Joel Edgerton

I’m watching the Weather Channel more than I’ve ever watched it. I’m scared to death it’s going to rain.

– John Elway

Into each life some rain must fall.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sometimes we should express our gratitude for the small and simple things like the scent of the rain, the taste of your favorite food, or the sound of a loved one’s voice.

– Joseph B. Wirthlin

Certain emotions just take you to the notes – being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

– Jeff Buckley

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

– John Steinbeck

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

– James Dickey

Though ‘Fire and Rain’ is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience… And that’s what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it… can be a shared experience.

– James Taylor

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

– John Ruskin

The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won’t name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play ‘Purple Rain.’

– Jason Aldean

Shooting all day in the rain is not where you want to be.

– Jeffrey Dean Morgan

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

– James Lovelock

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

– Hosea Ballou

The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.

– James Howard Kunstler

I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I’m waiting for it to stop, and the team’s manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he’s already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, ‘If you screw this up, they will boo you.’ And I said ‘Thanks.’

– Julia Stiles

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