Sun Quotes - Page 17

• New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Writing, Circles, Fire

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Spring, World, Breaths

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• the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.

  Beryl Markham

  Men, Hands, Mind

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.157, Open Road Media

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• Laugh out, O stream, from your bed of green, / Where you lie in the sun's embrace; / And talk to the reeds that o'er you lean / To touch your dimpled face.

  Phoebe Cary

  Lying, Rivers, Laughing

  Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.

  Gladys Taber

  Running, Dog, Cat

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• When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart.

  Gladys Taber

  Summer, Father, Spring

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• The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.

  Pope Paul V

  Axes, Religion, Atheism

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• When a sudden ray of sun or a moonbeam falls on a dreary street, it makes no difference what it illumines-a broken bottle on the ground, a fading flower in a field, or the flaxen blonde hair of a child's head. The object is transformed and the viewer is transfixed. Celebrate that moment of beauty and take it with you in your memory. It is God's gift to you.

  Luci Swindoll

  Beauty, Children, Memories

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• ...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

  William Allen White

  Food, Cooking, Dawn

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• He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that lay like glass in his mind. He stood there breathing everything in, the hurry of everyone. First, he thought, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Food, Glasses, Air

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.27, Vintage

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• This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.

  Morley Safer

  Real, Lying, Food

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• I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

  Ben Kingsley

  Healing, Night, Thinking

  "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.

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• As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!

  Hosea Ballou

  Heart, Water, Shining

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• The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Warmth

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Another Part of the Wood”, p.154, Penguin UK

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• The sun has a sense of all-pervasive brilliance, which does not discriminate in the slightest. It is the goodness that exists in a situation, in oneself, and in one's world, which is expressed without doubt, hesitation, or regret. The sun principle also includes the notion of blessings descending upon us and creating sacred world. It also represents clarity, without doubt.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Regret, Blessing, Creating

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• The cloud controls the light ... It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds a handful of spears, strikes the horizon, touches the extreme edge with a delicate revelation of light, or suddenly puts it out and makes the foreground shine.

  Alice Meynell

  Clouds, Light, Shining

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.122, eBookIt.com

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• The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British sun, soldiers in far-flung outposts of the Empire doctored themselves with "a spoonful o' gunpowder in a cuppa 'ot tea." Purveyors and users of harsh laxatives were not afraid of being thought mean and unfriendly just because their laxatives were. But in America, the need to be nice is so consuming that nobody would dare take a laxative that makes you run up the stairs two at a time, pushing others aside and yelling, "Get out of the way!

  Florence King

  Running, Attitude, Nice

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• Since, by your greatness, you
  Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it
  In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor,
  As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of
  The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.

  Cyril Tourneur

  Greatness, Men, Clouds

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• When first thy eyes unveil, give thy soul leave
  To do the like; our bodies but forerun
  The spirit's duty. True hearts spread and heave
  Unto their God, as flow'rs do to the sun.
  Give him thy first thoughts then; so shalt thou keep
  Him company all day, and in him sleep.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Heart, Sleep

  George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Louis Lohr Martz (1986). “George Herbert and Henry Vaughan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Yet never sleep the sun up. Prayer shou'd
  Dawn with the day. There are set, awful hours
  'Twixt heaven and us. The manna was not good
  After sun-rising; far day sullies flowres.
  Rise to prevent the sun; sleep doth sin glut,
  And heaven's gate opens when the world's is shut.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Sleep, Heaven

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1847). “Silex scintillans. Sacred poems and private ejaculations (with a mem. by H.F. Lyte).”, p.56

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• If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn, squash, cucumbers. A brilliant sun is now smiling at this disaster with an insenstive cheerfulness as out of place as a funny story would be if someone you loved had just died.

  Ruth Stout

  Morning, Garden, June

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• The sun was shining like a congratulation.

  Margaret Millar

  Congratulations, Shining

  Margaret Millar (2018). “Experiment in Springtime”, p.95, Soho Press

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• The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Kindness, Children, Rain

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.439

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• June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Nature, Spring, California

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• That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

  Ilka Chase

  Children, Real, Long Ago

  Ilka Chase (1967). “Fresh from the Laundry”

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