“The soul would have no rainbow
Had the eyes no tears.”

“As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.”

Judy Garland (1922–1969) actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States

“Having drown'd her sparkling Eyes in tears.”

John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic

“Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves.
They flickered out saying:
"It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

“What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

“You're a hostage of the heart
Twisted 'round the smallest finger
Two burning eyes are tearing you apart
Turn your soul into a cinder!”

Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist

“Her clothes are made of rainbows
And twenty thousand tears
Shine through the spaces
Of her golden ochre hair”

Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter

“If you were a tear in my eyes l would not cry for I risk losing you.”

John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States

“Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
Help us to see
That without the dust the rainbow
Would not be.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

“To him… who had examined the laws of light merely in a drop of water, the brilliant phenomenon of the rainbow would be totally unintelligible.”

Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874) Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist