“Just like moons and suns,
With certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
"Angel" from Pocketful of Sunshine (2007)
“Just like moons and suns,
With certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
“We all shine on… like the moon and the stars and the sun… we all shine on… come on and on and on…”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Variant: Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
Source: Song Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
“Let us make hay while the sun shines.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.
“We all shine on in the moon and the stars and the sun.”
Ben Sherwood book The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
Source: The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
Toby Keith (1961) American country music singer and actor
Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine on You.
Song lyrics, Blue Moon (1996)
“3314. Make Hay, while the Sun shines.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Taylor Swift (1989) American singer-songwriter
Treacherous, written by Taylor Swift and Dan Wilson.
Song lyrics, Red (2012)
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
“Just step aside for me to enjoy the sunshine.”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Actually said by his namesake Diogenes of Sinope, when asked by Alexander the Great if there was anything he wanted.
Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Alexander", ch. 14, section 4.
Misattributed