Rainbow quotes
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"But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow."
"When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know I'm a rainbow too."
"Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other."
"How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?"
"For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!"
"For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly."
"Not long ago I learned from a certain person in considerable detail about the worthlessness of your character. All the same, it is you who have given me strength, you who have put the rainbow of revolution in my breast. It is you who have given an object to my life."
"In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood."
"All these seven colors are part of one rainbow, yet they are all different. They have their own quality, their own identity, their own flavor to it. So it is a rainbow. The Divine loves diversity, that is why he made us all different."
"I've had rainbows in my clouds."
"Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."
"The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that I could not choose a more appropriate subject for demonstrating how, with the method I am using, we can arrive at knowledge not possessed at all by those whose writings are available to us."
"even damnation is poisoned with rainbows."
"You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow."
"What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?"
"Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world."
"Donde termina el arco iris, en tu alma o en el horizonte? Where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon?"
"To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends."
"Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it."
"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."
