“There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.”
John Heyl Vincent (1832–1920) American theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 556.
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
— Maya Angelou, book Letter to My Daughter
Variant: Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
Source: Letter to My Daughter
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Book IV, lines 492-492.
The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
When the Lamp is Shattered http://www.readprint.com/work-1382/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1822), st. 1 <br class="br">Context: When the lamp is shattered<br>The light in the dust lies dead —<br>When the cloud is scattered,<br>The rainbow's glory is shed.<br>When the lute is broken,<br>Sweet tones are remembered not;<br>When the lips have spoken,<br>Loved accents are soon forgot.
“The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“And because I love you
I'll give it one more try
To show my rainbow race
It's too soon to die.”
Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer
"My Rainbow Race" (1967)
Context: One blue sky above us
One ocean lapping all our shore
One earth so green and round
Who could ask for more
And because I love you
I'll give it one more try
To show my rainbow race
It's too soon to die.
“It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician