#clouds

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me. ↗

— Black Elk

#clouds #come #drought #earth #gave

The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often. ↗

— Du Fu

#asks #clouds #drafting #happens #often

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ↗

— John Lubbock

#across #clouds #day #float #grass

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#animate #clouds #crystal #every #existence

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#art #baseness #beauty #best #best part

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#clouds #hearts #heavy #letting #like

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#aspect #blue #blue sky #breath #clouds

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#combination #felt #i #ideas #making

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#clear #clouds #cocktail #complicated #goes

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#god #shroud #symbolize #veils