Top 100 Rainbow Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Rainbow Quotes from famous people such as Ed Koch, Gilbert Baker, Pooja Bedi, Saul Bass, Luke Treadaway, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot’s at the other end.
Ed Koch
A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that’s why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people.
Gilbert Baker
I was six months pregnant when my brother died and my daughter was four-months-old when my mother expired. Gradually, I developed an inner resilience as today I believe there is a rainbow at the end of each storm.
Pooja Bedi
I think that the sun*like rainbow growing out of the hand is open to many alternate positive interpretations. One may say it’s the hand of the United Way bringing hope to people. But it helps signal that United Way is vibrant, exciting, colorful, positive and changing.
Saul Bass
It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.
Luke Treadaway
When we talk about LGBT characters on TV we’re talking about the entire rainbow, and that includes trans people, and that includes non-binary people, people of color, women, differently-abled people. There is so much opportunity for storytelling there, and I hope that we continue to see more of that.
Wilson Cruz
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
Maya Angelou
I like to live in a world of unicorns and rainbows where I don’t pay attention to anything unless it’s positive.
Janet Varney
My mother’s idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive – the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.
Robin Williams
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg
A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits.
Gilbert Baker
Because of its gradient, it is the site of many spectacular waterfalls, like the Unchalli Falls, near which, on a full moon night in winter, you might even glimpse a moonbow – a rainbow generated from the moonlight. This is the river Aghanashini – ‘the cleanser of sins.’
Rohini Nilekani
For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa’s cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.
Michelle Malkin
The prominence given to our nation as a rainbow country has its genesis and credence in our ‘Calaloo culture’ of which our East Indian brothers and sisters have played a principal part.
Anthony Carmona
My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents’ house and sing ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to ‘Grease.’
Zoe Kravitz
I’m really into color. I love polka dots, rainbows, any pattern.
Ravyn Lenae
Marriage is not all rainbows and butterflies; you have to give in to your partner’s whims every now and then, and that’s a two-way street.
Asha Parekh
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James M. Barrie
I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing ‘Grease’ songs and ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn’t a plan.
Zoe Kravitz
I’m continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature’s greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people’s faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain.
Matthew Williamson
What the rainbow has given our people is a thing that connects us.
Gilbert Baker
To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
Marianne Williamson
You might have to go through some smaller rainbows to get at the big fish, but they’re in there.
Jack Hemingway
I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
Zora Neale Hurston
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Karen Black
It’s said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. In that case, the WWE ‘creative’ team must be as crazy as a rainbow trout in a car wash.
Jim Cornette
I don’t always have to sing a song. There is something besides ‘The Man That Got Away’ or ‘Over the Rainbow’ or ‘The Trolley Song.’ There’s a woman. There are three children. There’s me! There’s a lot of life going here.
Judy Garland
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
Robert Bridges
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron
I love going to cities around the world and seeing the rainbow flag, knowing that it’s a safe place where I can be myself.
Gilbert Baker
Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems – from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.
Bono
I've always believed in a rainbow diet. As many colors

I’ve always believed in a rainbow diet. As many colors and foods as you can eat, the better, because if you focus on one food, there’s bound to be a report that comes out that says, ‘Broccoli actually… ‘ So I mix it up a lot. And I take vitamins, like Biosil, which I take for my hair, skin, and nails.
Christie Brinkley
I’d love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.
Kandyse McClure
I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I’m not doing any generic ‘Southern acting.’
Carrie Preston
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
Robert Bridges
If the world’s a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
Lucy Larcom
I watched a little ‘Beyond the Black Rainbow.’
Matt Duffer
I kind of view everybody like a rainbow. Everybody on the planet has all the colors of the rainbow inside.
Alexia Fast
Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.
Binyavanga Wainaina
I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing ‘Grease’ songs and ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn’t a plan.
Zoe Kravitz
Life is not always going to be roses and rainbows. You are going to have uncomfortable moments. It’s what we do with those moments that is going to count and determine our destiny.
Lana
We talk of a rainbow nation – in a country that remains dichotomized between black and white. We must acknowledge that the rainbow, in fact, is still a dream.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
I’ve always believed in a rainbow diet. As many colors and foods as you can eat, the better, because if you focus on one food, there’s bound to be a report that comes out that says, ‘Broccoli actually… ‘ So I mix it up a lot. And I take vitamins, like Biosil, which I take for my hair, skin, and nails.
Christie Brinkley
My father had a great sense of humor. He wasn’t only the Man in Black. He said it himself in the song ‘Man in Black:’ ‘Ah, I’d love to wear a rainbow every day.’ He was a man of hope.
John Carter Cash
I’ve always taken ‘The Wizard of Oz’ very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I’ve spent my entire life trying to get over it.
Judy Garland
It’s a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn’t consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
Sam Levenson
I’ve always said, ‘Before you see the rainbow, it has to storm.’
Marcus Smart
The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It’s beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can’t see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.
Gilbert Baker
Winning the Miss Universe title was not only a personal victory but a victory for the whole rainbow nation. I couldn’t be more proud to represent South Africa. I hope this will inspire every single girl with a dream, that with hard work and dedication any dream is reachable.
Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am in the bad news business. Seldom do I get to report on puppies, rainbows, or the sounds of children giggling. Well, never.
Gwen Ifill
My emoji vocabulary is pretty limited to, like, the smiling poop and the rainbow and a unicorn or something.
Bob Morley
We are a part of this unique, complex, and complicated fabric of what it means to be an American. Americans come in all colors, creeds, and colors of the rainbow, and we can celebrate this together.
Tamlyn Tomita
I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in ‘Sparkle,’ but I’d like to pursue it a bit more. I sang at a friend’s 60th at Claridge’s the other month; I did ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ with the actor Hilton McRae, and ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow.’
Lesley Manville
Me writing ‘Black Rainbow’ was me alone in a windowless room going insane.
Panos Cosmatos
It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. Davies
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
Black Elk
It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.
Luke Treadaway
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James M. Barrie
In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.
Hoagy Carmichael
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
Barbara Walters
I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.
Terry Riley
What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.
Morris Dees
My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There’d always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere ‘Over the Rainbow’.
Rufus Wainwright
I wrote my own anthem: it’s called ‘Mariah’s Theme.’ It’s on the ‘Rainbow’ album from ’99. Back in the day.
Mariah Carey
Yeah, I was only in New York from the age of six months until five years old. But my very first memories are all of New York. I remember my first rainbow on a beach in New York. I remember jumping on a bed in New York.
Gaspar Noe
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
Robert Motherwell
Reunion has been nicknamed the Rainbow Isle because it is considered one of the most integrated societies on the planet, and you feel that vibe wherever you go. There is joyousness, warmth and a sense of equality.
Carol Drinkwater
We buy a copy of ‘Gravity’s Rainbow,’ say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word ‘copy’ fails. Because what I experience when I read ‘Gravity’s Rainbow,’ or ‘Beloved,’ or ‘The Moviegoer,’ is not at all a ‘copy’ of what you experience when you read the same novel.
Anthony Doerr
I’ve always taken ‘The Wizard of Oz’ very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I’ve spent my entire life trying to get over it.
Judy Garland
I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it’s in a rainbow or on a coffee mug or on a happy face.
Chris Kattan
For the most part, Australian diners are familiar with kimchi, Korean fried chicken and even bimbimbap – those deliciously nourishing bowls of rice topped with a rainbow of veggies and grilled meat – but that’s where some folks’ awareness stops.
Melissa Leong
Children don’t mind when something was made – they don’t discriminate in that way. I tape very early episodes of ‘Rainbow’ and ‘Trumpton’ for my son and watch them with him. He loves them. ‘Trumpton’ was made in 1967, but he still watches it like it’s brand new.
Peter Kay
It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. Davies
So I’m working on another historical novel. This one’s a Franco-New Zealand novel, and it takes place at the time of the Rainbow Warrior bombing in New Zealand.
Christine Leunens
When I was a kid I wasn’t allowed to watch horror movies at all. And actually, one of the genesis points for ‘Mandy’ and ‘Black Rainbow’ was this memory I have of being in video stores, reading the backs of videos and looking at the art, imagining some kind of non-existent imaginary film based on that.
Panos Cosmatos
I wrote my own anthem: it’s called ‘Mariah’s Theme.’ It’s on the ‘Rainbow’ album from ’99. Back in the day.
Mariah Carey
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
Black Elk
Bubbles have more colors than a rainbow.
Tom Noddy
We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
Gilbert Baker
We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
Gilbert Baker
We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what I call the human rainbow, which is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow.
Eduardo Galeano
I was astounded nobody had thought of making a rainbow flag before because it seemed like such an obvious symbol for us.
Gilbert Baker
My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents’ house and sing ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to ‘Grease.’
Zoe Kravitz
I just think white light generation is just one of these remarkable things to see, and actually, you know, one colour of light goes in to just water or any clear anything and out comes all the colours of the rainbow when the pulses are short and intense enough.
Donna Strickland
A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that’s why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people.
Gilbert Baker
The reason the rainbow flag endures is because people own it. It means something to them.
Gilbert Baker
Always have a black bow, a white bow, a rainbow bow – those bows will match literally just about everything!
JoJo Siwa
One day, I’ll be a crazy old lady with long rainbow hair living in the woods. I will have a rad tree house with tons of rooms for people to come over, recharge, and make art.
Kerli
When I was seven, I sang ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ in assembly and the teachers were crying because it was so emotional!
Arlo Parks
From a young age in England I felt technical skills were coached out of me. I remember when I was 15 doing a rainbow flick over a player’s head in training and the coach telling me off and shouting: ‘This is not the Eni show.’ That discouraged me from expressing myself individually with the ball in that team again.
Eniola Aluko
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Karen Black
One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one’s capacity for happiness, but also one’s efficiency.
Orison Swett Marden
My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth

My mother’s idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive – the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.
Robin Williams
There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
Beth Ditto
Safe Schools has been labelled a lot of things: Marxism, cultural relativism, ‘grooming,’ and part of something called the ‘rainbow ideology.’ But Safe Schools is not about imposing an ideology or an ‘ism.’ It’s about teaching our kids to treat everyone equally, to understand rather than judge.
Bill Shorten
Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories.
Jane Yolen
I remember opening my dad’s closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just… he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.
Jon Hamm
It’s said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. In that case, the WWE ‘creative’ team must be as crazy as a rainbow trout in a car wash.
Jim Cornette
Leroy bet me I couldn’t find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
Rita Mae Brown