Quotes about the sun page 5
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes book Demon in My View
Source: Demon in My View
“The sun will shine in my back door one day..”
Jerry Garcia (1942–1995) American musician and member of the Grateful Dead
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: God-Shaped Hole
“It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.”
Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Michael Crichton book The Lost World
Seventh Configuration "Departure"
Source: The Lost World (1995)
Context: A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer and better fantasies. And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. You see all of us together? That's real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Variant: I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air.
Source: Poems, 1923-1954
Elizabeth Coatsworth (1893–1986) American writer
Source: Personal Geography: Almost an Autobiography
“unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
William Broyles Jr. (1944) American screenwriter
Source: Cast Away: The Shooting Script
“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun."”
Zora Neale Hurston book Dust Tracks on a Road
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch.2 : My Folks, p. 13.
Context: Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
“But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
“You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Variant: Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
“It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
Attributed in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937) by Dale Carnegie
“… and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.”
Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author
Source: I Am the Messenger
“He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.”
Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
From the Preface to the 1855 edition of <i>Leaves of Grass</i>
Context: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. . . .
Context: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.... The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured.... others may not know it but he shall. He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches.... and shall master all attachment.
Melody Beattie (1948) American writer
Source: The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take
“Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
Variant: Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.
Source: Fight Club
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Source: 1890s, The Mountains of California (1894), chapter 4: A Near View of the High Sierra
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
“Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun”
Saul Williams (1972) American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Variant: Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“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
“Why not see which is brighter: your aura or the sun?”
Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily
Source: The Golden Lily
“People here worship the sun." "Yes, but my people worship the God who made the sun.”
Gilbert Morris (1929–2016) American writer
Source: Till Shiloh Comes
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
" Notebook N http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_notebooks.html" (1838) page 36 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=25&itemID=CUL-DAR126.-&viewtype=text <br class="br">quoted in [Darwin's Religious Odyssey, 2002, William E., Phipps, Trinity Press International, 9781563383847, 32, http://books.google.com/books?id=0TA81BTW3dIC&pg=PA32] <br class="br">also quoted in On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection (1996) edited by Thomas F. Glick and David Kohn, page 81 <br class="br">Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements <br class="br">Source: Notebooks
“Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), It Ain't Me Babe
Context: Go away from my window,
Leave at your own chosen speed,
I'm not the one you want, babe,
I'm not the one you need.
You say you're looking for someone,
Who's never weak but always strong,
To protect you and defend you,
Whether you are right or wrong,
Someone to open each and every door,
But it ain't me, babe,
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
It ain't me you're looking for, babe.
“Because I live in the real world where vampires burn in the sun.”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
“Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!”
Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba
Drum-Taps. Give me the splendid Silent Sun
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Leaves of Grass
“there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
I, 4
Moralia, Of Eating of Flesh
Context: For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy. And then we fancy that the voices it utters and screams forth to us are nothing else but certain inarticulate sounds and noises, and not the several deprecations, entreaties, and pleadings of each of them.