Gertrude Atherton Quotes

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

It never rains in Manchester, but it pours

They had so much rain in New York that a lot of the cabbies had their first shower in years.

If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.

When you're from Cali and it's always sunny, you kind of want some rain.

It rarely rains in Hollywood - and I love the rain. There are ups and downs to anywhere in the world, but I get frustrated without any rain.

A drop of water can't stop a fire alone. But a drop of water, plus another one, plus another one, then you have the rain, and the rain can stop the fire.

Outdoors, I have a pool, so I usually swim and stuff. It's usually superhot in California, so we swim.

The rain, it raineth every day.

In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.

Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours," declared the Major.

Long as I remember, rain been comin' down; Clouds of mystery fallin', confusion on the ground; Good men through the ages, trying to find the sun; And I wonder, still I wonder: Who will stop the rain?

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.

It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines.

The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is full of it and lies low over the earth, heavy and dense. Even the sea is wetter than usual!

The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance. One's life completely changes based on the rain. After the monsoon, because the dust settles, one can see further and so it feels like one's eyesight has improved or that one is living in a different country where there is more light.

The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the winds, are intermixed, when saturated with vapour, a precipitation ensues. If the masses are under saturation, then less precipitation takes place, or none at all, according to the degree. Also, the warmer the air, the greater is the quantity of vapour precipitated in like circumstances. ... Hence the reason why rains are heavier in summer than in winter, and in warm countries than in cold.

California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.