LIGHTNING QUOTES II
quotations about lightning
Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.
DANIEL BOONE
attributed, Day's Collacon
I hate it when storm clouds roll in, heralded by dazzling claps of thunder and lightning that boast an ocean of tears. This majestic performance of bad temper manages to overshadow my pathetic attempts at pouting. No one broods like Mother Nature, hence she steals all the attention I was sulking after.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
Smile Anyway
It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
I done handcuffed lightning
And throw thunder in jail
You know I'm bad
MUHAMMAD ALI
a poem written after his match with George Foreman, 1974
oh now feel it comin' back again
like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it
LIVE
"Lightning Crashes", Throwing Copper
The lightning comes on a mission of mercy, bearing healing in its train.
MISS J. TRUMBULL
attributed, Day's Collacon
The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
AVICENNA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.
HARRY HERSHFIELD
Now I'll Tell One
Thunder and lightning among the clouds are matched by storms of passion within me as terrible as they.
FRANK CRANE
"The Part of Me That Doubts", Four Minute Essays
When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a force greater than himself. Similarly he saw a supernatural force in the rain, and in the various other changes in nature.
EMMA GOLDMAN
"Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty", Anarchism and Other Essays
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN
Napalm & Silly Putty
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
LAO TZU
attributed, The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound
If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.
PHILIP YANCEY
Disappointment with God
Like the lightning, which doth cease to be,
Ere one can say--It lightens!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Juliet
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
WILLIE TYLER
attributed, Seventeenth Century Review
The tidings, to our world ossicious sent,
Through Albion's isles on wing of lightning went.
WILLIAM STEVENSON
"On the Death of the Reverend Mr. James Hervey", Original Poems on Several Subjects
They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.
CLINT EASTWOOD
attributed, The Quote Books: Seeds of Wisdom on Every Subject
Thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
"Interview: Carlos Ruiz Zafon", The Scotsman, Jun. 13, 2010
To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform,
Which, back'd with thunder, do but gild a storm.
JOHN DRYDEN
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Heat lightning prowls, pranks the mountain horizon like
Memory. I follow the soundless flicker,
As ridge after ridge, as outline of peak after peak,
Is momentarily defined in the
Pale wash, the rose-flush, of distance.
ROBERT PENN WARREN
"Heat Lightning", The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren