Clouds Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

26 Clouds Quotes
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“On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.”
Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
“Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?”
Aristophanes Quotes
Source: Clouds, (Gerard's translation)
“Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size And glitt'ring cliff on cliffs, and fiery ramparts rise.”
James Beattie Quotes
Source: Ministrel (bk. I)
“Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that al our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.”
Bible Quotes
Source: I Corinthians (ch. X, v. 1)
“And it can to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.”
Bible Quotes
Source: I Kings (ch. XVIII, v. 44)
“Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire: Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. CIV, v. 2-5)
“I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.”
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Quotes
Source: I Saw Two Clouds at Morning
“Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.”
Robert Seymour Bridges Quotes
Source: Elegy--The Cliff Top--A Cloud
“O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please, Or let the easily persuaded eyes Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould Of a friend's fancy.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Source: Fancy in Nubibus
“Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud Is bright and shining: I therefore turn my clouds about And always wear them inside out To show the lining.”
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (Mrs. A.L. Felkin) Quotes
Source: Wisdom of Folly
“The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.”
Victor Hugo Quotes
Source: The Vanished City
“See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. V, l. 145)
“By unseen hand uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: Michael Angelo (pt. II, 2)
“But here by the mill the castled clouds Mocked themselves in the dizzy water.”
Edgar Lee Masters Quotes
Source: Spoon River Anthology--Isaiah Beethoven
“Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Comus (l. 22)
“There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Comus (l. 223)
“So when the sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity
“The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 490)
“If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.”
Old Rhyme Quotes
Source: Old Weather Rhyme
“When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers.”
Old Rhyme Quotes
Source: Old Weather Rhyme
“Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven.”
Thomas Love Peacock Quotes
Source: Rhododaphne (canto V, l. 257)
“Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Moral Essays (ep. 2, l. 19)
“Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel indeed. Methinks it is like a weasel. It is backed like a weasel. Or like a whale. Very like a whale.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet & Polonius at III, ii)
“My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, Must kiss their own feet.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at IV, v)
“I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Source: The Cloud