LIGHTNING QUOTES II
quotations about lightning
Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.
DANIEL BOONE
attributed, Day's Collacon
The lightning comes on a mission of mercy, bearing healing in its train.
MISS J. TRUMBULL
attributed, Day's Collacon
It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
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
The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
AVICENNA
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.
HARRY HERSHFIELD
Now I'll Tell One
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
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
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
Lightning my pilot sits;
In a cavern under is fettered the thunder,
It struggles and howls at fits;
Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion,
This pilot is guiding me,
Lured by the love of the genii that move
In the depths of the purple sea;
Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills,
Over the lakes and the plains,
Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream
The Spirit he loves remains;
And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile,
Whilst he is dissolving in rains.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
"The Cloud"
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
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN
Napalm & Silly Putty
Lightning does the work; thunder takes the credit.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
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
Like the lightning, which doth cease to be,
Ere one can say--It lightens!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Juliet
The lightning flashing in the heavens is like the fire of musketry from a hostile army.
CORA AGNEW
attributed, Day's Collacon
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