#thunder

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder. ↗

— Thomas Starr King

#california #came #cotton #down #flag

The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#artillery #crashing #deep #effect #extraordinary

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#clock #during #fortune #frightened #go

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#asunder #him #i #man #marry

Loud roared the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge showers. ↗

— Andrew Cherry

#dreadful #loud #rain #showers #thunder

Deliver thunder, God If you choose not to talk. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #deliver #god #literature #literature-quotes

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. ↗

— Mark Twain

#good #impressive #lightning #thunder #work

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#heaven #lightning #made #marriages #say

He was a great thundering paradox of a man. ↗

— William Manchester

#man #paradox #thundering

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#earthquake #god #hearing #imperfect #language