Quote by John Updike
Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike

Other quotes by John Updike

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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Education
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Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike

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Dreams
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Other Quotes from
Water
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Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. – H.M. Tomlinson

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Water

The tides are in our veins. – Robinson Jeffers

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Water

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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Water

The sea is as near as we come to another world. – Anne Stevenson, “North Sea Off Carnoustie”

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Water

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I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress. – Mark Zuckerberg

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Business

A toast once heard: To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I’d found my first. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Sisters

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. – Jacob Bronowski

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God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. – Paul Dirac

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God