Lightning Quotes

So Lightning says to Mud,“What would happen if I struck your blood?”And Mud says, “Brother, It would hurt, And make me the motherOf every living thing.But, Fire Boy, you ain’t lifting my grass skirtUntil you burn me a ring.

~ Sherman Alexie

Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm.

~ R.k. Cowles

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

When we recognize that our personal good coincides with the Good of everyone, our inner light is turned on: at this point, when a human being becomes a Human Angel, their light, like a beacon, shines all around.The more lights are lit, the more humanity will be enlightened in these dark times, when the world of the ego, driven to its extreme, has begun its dramatic collapse.

~ Human Angels

So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist.

~ Jennifer Bosworth

One of the problems with climate change, global warming and global air pollution is that it may change the frequency and intensity of electrical storm activity. Too much lightning activity may cause excessive mating, aggression, fatigue, illness and disease to occur. Too little may turn off the animal and plant breeding cycles.

~ Steven Magee

If it’s danger you seek you can go to war, blow the whistle on someone powerful, piss off someone unhinged, walk in a field during a lightning storm, tease a rattlesnake, or lose yourself in the right embrace. Some people live for it, others suffer in spite of it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on.

~ Victoria Aveyard

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

~ Emily Brontë

Lightning has no mercy.

~ Victoria Aveyard

The both of us, we're individual parts on our own. She's the thunder and lightning and I'm the rain. It's only when we come together that it's right.We become the perfect storm. (Eric Carmen)

~ Melyssa Winchester

Sopping, and with no sign of stopping, either- then a breather. Warm again, storm again- what is the norm, again? It's fine, it's not, it's suddenly hot: Boom, crash, lightning flash!

~ Old Farmer's Almanac

At that instant a dazzling claw of lightning streaked down the length of the sky. The hedge and the distant trees seemed to leap forward in the brilliance of the flash. Immediately upon it came the thunder: a high, tearing noise, as though some huge thing were being ripped to pieces close above, which deepened and turned to enormous blows of dissolution. Then the rain fell like a waterfall. In a few seconds the ground was covered with water and over it, to a height of inches, rose a haze formed of a myriad minute splashes. Stupefied with the shock, unable even to move, the sodden rabbits crouched inert, almost pinned to the earth by the rain.

~ Richard Adams

I dare us to give up – maybe we’ll reach nirvana by the time we’re sixty.

~ J.e. Haldeman

The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.

~ Jean-François Beauchemin

I sort of fell.Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet?

~ Rick Riordan

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

~ Cory Doctorow

I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending . . .

~ Carew Papritz

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

~ Mark Twain

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

~ Clint Eastwood

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

~ George Carlin

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

~ Franz Grillparzer

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley