Sun Quotes - Page 25

• Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter.

  Yoko Ono

  Winter, Shining, Watches

  Twitter post from Oct 08, 2015

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• The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

  Horace Walpole

  Coal, Fuel, England

  Horace Walpole, George Montagu (1837). “The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others].: 1760-1769”, p.407

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• The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Stars, Moon

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• Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our sun. It's full of Hillary Clinton emails.

  David Letterman

  Black, Size, Email

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• In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, Golf, Law

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another in patterns of complex recursiveness in which Sun, Moon, and Saturn are also modalities of Earth.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Moon, Unity, Earth

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• Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.

  Seth Lloyd

  Running, People, Stories

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• Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.

  Thomas Cogswell Upham

  Rays, Holiness, Consolation

  Thomas Cogswell Upham (1848). “Religious Maxims, Having a Connection with the Doctrines and Practice of Holiness”, p.8

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• Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth or death of princes, the rise or fall of millionaires, are matters that cause the sun to stand still or even produce the appearance of comets in the sky.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Believe, Fall, Order

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• Sometimes I feel like a tree on a hill, at the place where all the wind blows and the hail hits the tree the hardest. All the people I love are down the side aways, sheltered under a great rock, and I am out of the fold, standing alone in the sun and the snow. I feel like I am not part of the rest somehow, although they welcome me and are kind. I see my family as they sit together and it is like they have a certain way between them that is beyond me. I wonder if other folks ever feel included yet alone.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Blow, Rocks, Wind

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• 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

  Moments, That Moment, Plates

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.295, CUP Archive

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• Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else, time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun, but-no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential!

  Oswald J. Smith

  Prayer, Sleep, Important

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• All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow, leaves spread in the sunlight. Man plants, weeds, cultivates and harvests. It sounds simple, and it is simple, with the simplicity of great truths.

  Hal Borland

  Weed, Rain, Simple

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• Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.

  Lee Wulff

  Lying, Lakes, Sea

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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• When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.

  Tess Gallagher

  Girl, Song, Father

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• I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

  A. A. Gill

  Believe, Watches, Cards

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• The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. In a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.

  David Attenborough

  Ocean, Moon, Islands

  "The Trials of Life (TV Series)". www.imdb.com. (1990–).

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• Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

  Lucretius

  Stars, Light, Atheism

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• It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Atheism, There Is No God, Clear

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• Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Running, Mother

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

  Lucretius

  Fall, Atheism, Atoms

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

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• No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Atheism, Tomorrow, Shouting

  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance pt. 2, ch. 13 (1974)

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• Wakin' up to find another day. The moon got lost again last night, but now the sun has finally had its say.

  Gwen Stefani

  Funny, Moon, Night

  Song: 4 In The Morning, Album: The Sweet Escape

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• The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, East, West

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• The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Native American, Men

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