Sun famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
-- A. E. Hotchner -
The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
-- A. R. Ammons -
It was like she'd become the sun, and I started revolving around her. She was my center.
-- Abbi Glines -
The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
-- Adelbert von Chamisso -
I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
-- Al Sharpton -
I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
-- Alan Alda -
To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
-- Alan Hovhaness -
Waban-aki: People from where the sun rises.
-- Alanis Obomsawin -
Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
-- Albert Camus -
How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?
-- Albert Camus -
The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.
-- Aldo Leopold -
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
-- Alexander Pope -
My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
-- Alexander Scriabin -
Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.
-- Alfred Noyes -
For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun
-- Algernon Sidney -
Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.
-- Alison Jolly -
Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that 'primitive' Christians were quite in the spirit of Pagan forms and ideologies.
-- Alvin Boyd Kuhn -
Mystical bliss, joy and rapture arises when you realize the inner Sun.
-- Amit Ray -
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.
-- Ana Castillo -
This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.
-- Anais Nin -
The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
-- Anaxagoras -
The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree
-- Anchee Min -
It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.
-- Andre Breton -
We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter.
-- Andre Derain -
I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.
-- Andrea Gibson -
Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run
-- Andrew Marvell -
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
-- Anita Brookner -
When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
-- Anita Diament -
We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?
-- Anne Rice -
It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
-- Ansel Adams -
To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.
-- Anthony -
If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.
-- Antonin Artaud -
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
-- Antonio Porchia -
Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
-- Antonio Porchia -
On Monday, when the sun is hot, I wonder to myself a lot. Now is it true, or is it not, that what is which and which is what?
-- Archibald Alexander Hodge -
Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.
-- Arian Foster -
Just as a seed grows with the warmth of the sun, so our positive qualities grow when we put our attention on them.
-- Arielle Ford -
Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.
-- Aristotle Onassis -
If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.
-- Arthur Dove -
Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance of such cathode rays is clearly presupposed to be necessary...and this assumption is untenable.
-- Arthur Schuster -
…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy
-- Audrey Niffenegger -
I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.
-- Audrina Patridge -
My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness
-- Austin Osman Spare -
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun.
-- Barnabas -
Dracula and LSU Football are at their best after the sun goes down.
-- Beano Cook -
This was it. Together. Forever. As we left it all behind, the sun warmed my back, lighting the way before us. I knew of no better omen.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
-- Ben Jonson -
If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
-- Bernadette Peters -
The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.
-- Beryl Bainbridge -
There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.
-- Betty Smith -
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
-- Bill Cosby -
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
-- Bill Vaughan -
When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.
-- Blaise Pascal -
I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.
-- Bob Ehrlich -
Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
The sun shines everywhere, not just at the beach.
-- Brande Roderick -
(On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked that out by using some water, a thermometer, a tin, and an umbrella. And that's why I love physics.
-- Brian Cox -
Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.
-- Brian Wilson -
The best thing about waking up early is seeing the sun rise.
-- Bridgit Mendler -
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
-- Brigham Young -
Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.
-- Bruce Lee -
[Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ...combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.
-- Carl Sagan -
If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?
-- Carl Sagan -
I loved her as the sun loves the flower: ever-present, nourishingly, and gently.
-- Carlos Salinas de Gortari -
From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
-- Charles Bukowski -
unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
-- Charles Bukowski -
The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
-- Charles Dickens -
In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.
-- Charles Dickens -
Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne -
From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
-- Chief Joseph -
Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.
-- Chief Seattle
