LIGHTNING QUOTES II
quotations about lightning
It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
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
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
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, it's like the end of the world.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
"Interview: Carlos Ruiz Zafon", The Scotsman, Jun. 13, 2010
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
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
The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.
DANIEL BOONE
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
AVICENNA
attributed, Day's Collacon
The lightning comes on a mission of mercy, bearing healing in its train.
MISS J. TRUMBULL
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
MARK TWAIN
Twain: Wit and Wisecracks
The lightning flashing in the heavens is like the fire of musketry from a hostile army.
CORA AGNEW
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
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"
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.
FLAMMARION
attributed, The Alkaloidal Clinic, Volume 12