LIGHTNING QUOTES II
quotations about lightning
It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
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
We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.
NORMAN MAILER
Ancient Evenings
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
So Lightning says to Mud,
"What would happen if I struck your blood?"
And Mud says, "Brother,
It would hurt,
And make me the mother
Of every living thing.
But, Fire Boy, you ain't lifting my grass skirt
Until you burn me a ring."
SHERMAN ALEXIE
"Creation Story", Mudlark Flash, 2011
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
The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
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
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
MARK TWAIN
Twain: Wit and Wisecracks
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder,
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick, cross lightning.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
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
The flash at midnight!--'twas a light
That gave the blind a moment's sight,
Then sunk in tenfold gloom;
Loud, deep, and long the thunder broke,
The deaf ear instantly awoke,
Then closed as in the tomb:
An angel might have pass'd my bed,
Sounded the trump of GOD, and fled.
JAMES MONTGOMERY
"Winter Lightning", Poetical Works of James Montgomery
Lightning does the work; thunder takes the credit.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
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
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
The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
AVICENNA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.
SENECA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.
DANIEL BOONE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Like the lightning, which doth cease to be,
Ere one can say--It lightens!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Juliet