Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Source: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 1
Randall Jarrell book Pictures from an Institution
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 1, p. 9
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Variant: The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) American scientist and inventor
"A Talk with Polaroid's Dr. Edwin Land" in Forbes Vol. 115, No. 7 (1 April 1975), p. 49
“The expression "as right as rain" must have been invented by an Englishman.”
William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) American author, critic and scholar
"The Country or the City?," http://books.google.com/books?id=czgZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+expression+as+right+as+rain+must+have+been+invented+by+an+Englishman%22&pg=PA121#v=onepage North American Review ( February 1931 http://www.archive.org/stream/northamreview231miscrich#page/120/mode/2up)
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
“Red rain is coming down.
Red rain.
Red rain is pouring down,
Pouring down all over me.”
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
Red Rain
Song lyrics, So (1986)
