You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

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

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.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

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.

I'm continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature's greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people's faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

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

Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.

The rain begins with a single drop.

I've always found the rain very calming.

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

I love the rain. It's my favorite weather.

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

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

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.

Playing golf in the rain is just hard, it's just hard.

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.

Rain symbolizes darkness but also represents an essential part of rebirth.

Without rain, there is no life.

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

I am like the rain: I go where I'm needed.

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.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.

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.

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over.

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood.

Potential is like a summer crop. If it don't rain, it don't grow.

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.