Sunshine Quotes - Page 18

• Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Water, Plant

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• I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Believe, Thinking, Clouds

  "Roundtable: Maintaining Diversity Amid Job Cuts". Interview with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. December 10, 2008.

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• Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind of wants to, or doesn't, but needs to deal with. If you raise a kid to think everything is sunshine and flowers, they're going to get into the real world and die. That's the reason fairy tales are so creepy, because we need to encapsulate these things, to inoculate ourselves against them, so that when we're confronted by the genuine horror that is day-to-day life we don't go insane.

  Joss Whedon

  Sex, Real, Flower

  "Joss Whedon: Conversations". Book by Cynthia Burkhead, March 29, 2011.

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• Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix & a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Growing Up, Heart, Phoenix

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

  William Cowper

  Fate, Blow, Storm

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.118

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• See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

  Philip James Bailey

  Gold, Beard, Moss

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.146

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• If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.

  Loren Eiseley

  Simple, Night, Yawning

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.17, Library of America

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• How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.

  Jim Rohn

  Rain, Night, Giving

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• I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Work, Cicadas, Middle

  Vincent van Gogh, Ronald Pickvance (1984). “Van Gogh in Arles”, p.27, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Dark, Night, Reality

  Edwin Way Teale (1976). “The American seasons”, Dodd Mead

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• Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

  Robert Southey

  Wise, Men, Wind

  Robert Southey (1853). “Madoc”, p.249

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• Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.

  Bliss Carman

  Heart, Army, June

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up my easel in full sunshine.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Thinking, Paint, Indolence

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• How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass
  Everyone does this occasionally, and you shouldn't feel too upset about it unless it happens quite often, such as three times a day, in which case you must simply get used to it. Remember, other people like you as well or better for it, because it makes them feel so superior; so you've spread a little sunshine. And at the very least, you've served as a bad example.

  Peg Bracken

  People, Upset, Comfort

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• Oh, sunshine, I whisper and smile gently. Haven't you figured out that I'm completely in love with you?

  Kristen Proby

  Love, Love You, Havens

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• The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Hope, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. So does the veteran hen. The common egg of commerce begins to come forth into the market at a price where it can be secured with a step-ladder, and all nature seems tickled.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Song, Spring, Sacrifice

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• If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dark, Fire, Play

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• It is supposed by some that religion makes people solemn, takes the sunshine out of their life, the joy out of their heart, the song out of their mouth. But the reverse of this is the truth. No other one in the world has such secrets of joy as has the Christian. Christ teaches his followers to rejoice. He bids them rejoice even in sorrow and trial.

  J.R. Miller

  Christian, Song, Heart

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• Reach for the sky
  Keep your eye on the prize
  Forever in my mind
  Be my golden sunshine
  It's raining in your mind
  So push them clouds aside
  Forever by my side
  You're my golden sunshine

  Matisyahu

  Rain, Eye, Clouds

  Song: Sunshine, Album: Spark Seeker, 2012

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• I'm greedy; I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends . . . to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day . . . so that I'd radiate sunshine.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Each Day, Greedy, Superlatives

  "Edie : American Girl". Book by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, 1982.

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• There will be plenty of blame to go around but if you take credit for the sunshine, you also get blamed for the rain.

  Tom Rath

  Rain, Credit, Blame

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• It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-spangled gossamer threads hung on the bushes and the shrill little cries of unrest of the swallows skimming the green open park spaces of the park told of autumn and change.

  Flora Thompson

  Morning, Autumn, Space

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• How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!

  William Wordsworth

  Brother, Land

  'Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg' (1835)

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• Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine.

  Anita Bryant

  Orange Juice, Breakfast, Orange

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