Umbrella Quotes

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. (Robert Frost)
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. View quote
Mark Twain
Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me. View quote
Bob Marley
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. View quote
Jerzy Kosinski
Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas, gray areas where there is not a proper regulation, where there is not legislation for the economy. View quote
Loretta Napoleoni
If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices. View quote
Michael Schenker
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice. View quote
Zhang Yimou
I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest! View quote
Camille Claudel
Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain. View quote
George Carlin
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt. (Fernando Pessoa)
I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea. View quote
Lewis Carroll
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace. View quote
Knut Hamsun
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. View quote
Al Smith
The mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open. View quote
Walter Gropius
I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South. View quote
Jean Webster
One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach. View quote
Luanne Rice
Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have. View quote
Tim Gunn
My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. View quote
Alice Eve
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. (Comte de Lautreamont)
Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain. View quote
Bobby Darin
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first. View quote
Conrad Veidt
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen. View quote
Dan Stevens
I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella. View quote
Haley Barbour