Sunny Quotes - Page 12

• From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Hair, White, Drawing

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

  Faith Baldwin

  Gratitude, Children, Grateful

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• But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. And if you cook—that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table.

  Gladys Taber

  Jobs, Fun, Lying

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• I was stuck in traffic one day and just kinda thought it would be funny to masturbate. It was sunny and clear out, so I was worried one of the other drivers would see me, but my jeep is pretty high off the ground, so I think no one noticed. I busted a nut and aimed it down, ruining my tweety bird floor mat. I felt kinda stupid after and my mom kept silent the rest of the drive home. It was awkward and I regret it.

  Zach Braff

  Mom, Regret, Stupid

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• By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Selfish, Nice, Women

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.10, University of Toronto Press

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• A new year is upon us, with new duties, new conflicts, new trials, and new opportunities. Start on the journey with Jesus--to walk with Him, to work for Him, and to win souls to Him. The last year of the century, it may be the last of our lives! A happy year will it be to those who, through every path of trial, or up every hill of difficulty, or over every sunny height,, march on in closest fellowship with Jesus, and who will determine that, come what may, they have Christ every day.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  New Year, Jesus, Winning

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• I'd like the memory of me
  to be a happy one.
  I'd like to leave an afterglow
  of smiles when life is done.
  I'd like to leave an echo
  whispering softly down the ways,
  Of happy times and laughing times
  and bright and sunny days.
  I'd like the tears of those who grieve,
  to dry before the sun
  of happy memories
  that I leave when life is done.

  Helen Lowrie Marshall

  Memories, Grieving, Echoes

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• Every sunny morning is a great fountain; we quaff 'sweet hope' from it.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sweet, Morning, Fountain

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• Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself

  Edith Södergran

  Cat, Garden, Wish

  Edith Södergran (1984). “Complete Poems”, Dufour Editions

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• Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Yield, Irritation

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.376, Penguin

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• Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Nature, Battle, World

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• Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.

  Nneka

  Kings, Who I Am, Listening

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• It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent sunny day song. You have a lot of different types of things on one record. It can be really pretty, or it can be really awful inside, depending on where your head's at at the moment. I got it in ninth grade and I think I've listened to it every month since then.

  Craig Finn

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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• We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds, but they are edged with light. We do not fear as we dip into the valley; we do not fear the clouds. Thank God for the splendid fearlessness of youth. And as for older travelers whom the Lord has led over the hill and the dale, they have not been given the spirit of fear. They think of the way they have come since they stood on that bright hillside, and their word is always this: There are reasons and reasons for hope and for happiness, and never one for fear.

  Amy Carmichael

  Country, Fear, Thinking

  Amy Carmichael (2013). “Gold by Moonlight: Sensitive Lessons from a Walk with Pain”, p.1, CLC Publications

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• A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

  William Kent

  Garden, Feelings, World

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• Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

  Dennis Brown

  People, Albums, Looks

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• I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Beach, Ocean, Blessing

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.561, Library of America

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• I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.

  Anne Bernays

  Hurt, Writing, Sleep

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• Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Philosophy, Medicine

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• My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance- and charges us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Distance, Eye, Light

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “A Walk”

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• I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Sorry, Blessed, Optimistic

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• The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It's more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny.

  Hope Davis

  Character, Interesting, Humanity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

  Ken Auletta

  Stanford University, Tree, Forever

  " Get Rich U: There are no walls between Stanford and Silicon Valley. Should there be?" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Rain, Mean, Sunshine

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• In L.A., it's so sunny out all the time that even though I'm working all day I have this illusion that I'm on some kind of vacation. New York is so condensed and exciting but you stay there too long and all that turns into anxiety a little bit. It's nice to escape here and there.

  Julian Casablancas

  Nice, Vacation, Long

  Source: pitchfork.com

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