Sunlight Quotes - Page 10

• Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Blood, People

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.231, NYU Press

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• God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sadness, Night, Years

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• A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.

  Herman Cain

  Government, Vampire, Gold

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• The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Halloween, Mirrors, Done

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.66, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force of every cell in our bodies, that is why we need green plants.

  Maximilian Bircher-Benner

  Health, Light, Cells

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• Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort.

  Loren Eiseley

  Running, Journey, Air

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.16, Vintage

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• The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Men, Views

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• The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!

  James Hilton

  Clouds, Two, Lasts

  James Hilton (1988). “Lost Horizon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Black, Shadow, Dull

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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• Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Heart, Oil, Fruits Of The Spirit

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• May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores - by day bathed in sunlight, and by night illuminated from within. May the heron carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea's blue grace. May your twin thoughts spiral upward like leafy vines, like fiddle strings in the wind, and be as noble as the Douglas fir. May you never find yourselves back to back without love pulling you around into each other's arms.

  James Bertolino

  Dream, Night, Love Is

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• It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Food, Science, Water

  John Harvey Kellogg “The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How”, Рипол Классик

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• The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of corn growing in full sunlight in the middle of the day uses up all the carbon dioxide within a meter of the ground in about five minutes. If the air were not constantly stirred by convection currents and winds, the corn would stop growing.

  Freeman Dyson

  Air, Wind, Atmosphere

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• Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.

  Valerie Wilson Wesley

  Fighting, Blessing, Clouds

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• I could kiss you in the rain forever
  Turn all your pain to pleasure
  Fill up all your days with sunlight
  Make the passion last every night
  Give you my every possesion
  Make you my only obsession
  Climb up to the sky and pull down all the stars above
  But I could never love you enough

  Chely Wright

  Country, Song, Stars

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• The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet.

  Preston Cloud

  Nature, Web Of Life, Achievement

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• Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine,
  Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Passion, Wine, Men

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Dark, Men, Grace

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.103, Fig

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• So with the stretch of the white road before me,
  Shining snow crystals rainbowed by the sun,
  Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue shadows,
  Strong with the strength of my horse as we run.
  Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight!
  Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.

  Amy Lowell

  Running, Strong, Horse

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries we've created to separate and define. And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the Earth and all the living things it supports.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Moon, Space, Support

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• I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play upon the banking, wheeling wings, I am completely, vibrantly alive. With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made.

  Stephen Coonts

  Song, Hands, Essence

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• To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To free oneself from the petty disputes of everyday life, to be active, to feel the blood renewed in one's vein - ah! that is life. . . . Life in finer and simpler. My will is freer. I appreciate everything more, sunlight and shade, work and my friends. The sky is vast. I breathe deep gulps of the fine clear air of the heights. I feel myself to have achieved a higher state of physical strength and a clearer brain. I am living in the third dimension!

  Henri Mignet

  Air, Blood, Sky

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• Only see you when I close my eyes. We on borrowed time when I delayed the sunlight.

  Bobby V

  Falling In Love, Eye, Borrowed Time

  Song: Anonymous, Album: Special Occasion, 2007

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• Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.

  Tim Tharp

  Mean, Color, Textbooks

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• I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  School, Office, Four

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