Sun Quotes - Page 39

• May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings?

  William Huggins

  Stars, Science, May

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• But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth;
  The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth:
  Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam,
  Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Flower, Health

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

  Matthew Fox

  Stars, Children, Whales

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• Bless my eyes this morning, Jah sun is on the rise once again

  Bob Marley

  Morning, Eye, Bless

  Song: So Much Trouble In The World, Album: Survival, 1979

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• Having a debate right now over whether or not to legalize marijuana is kind of like having a debate over whether the sun will come up tomorrow.

  Gary Johnson

  Marijuana, Tomorrow, Kind

  "The Legalization of Marijuana Is Debated at CPAC — Here’s How It Went Down" by Zach Noble, www.theblaze.com. February 26, 2015.

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• Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.

  Brian Cox

  Rocks, Balls, Looks

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• Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Rain, Men

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Song, Night, Bird

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• All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you.

  Henry Miller

  Flower, Men, Guy

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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• Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.

  William Ellery Channing

  Art, Light, Sky

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.4

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• The thing to remember about Phuket is it's very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.

  Tony Parsons

  Beach, Watches, Cocktails

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• Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

  Edward Young

  Air, Psychology, Want

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1803). “Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life”, p.52

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• Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

  Voltaire

  Years, Religion, Thank God

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• On Linden, when the sun was low,
  All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
  And dark as winter was the flow
  Of Iser, rolling rapidly.

  Thomas Campbell

  Dark, Winter, Snow

  Thomas Campbell (1854). “The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand”, p.92

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• Love is Natures second sun.

  George Chapman

  Love, Love Is

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.48

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• Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.

  John Morton

  Attitude, Self, Challenges

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• I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.

  Paul Kane

  Dark, Night, Fire

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• The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic.

  Jack London

  Dream, Autumn, Air

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.152, Xist Publishing

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• Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.

  Francis Thompson

  Summer, Wine, Fire

  James M. Byrne, Francis Thompson (2001). “God: thoughts in an age of uncertainty”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos.

  Edward Young

  Dark, Genius, Dull

  Edward Young, John Doran (1854). “The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran”, p.564

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• And hold up to the sun my little taper.

  Lord Byron

  Littles, Authorship

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2208, Delphi Classics

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• Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.

  Lord Byron

  Labor, Stills, Labour

  'The Corsair' (1814) canto 1, st. 8

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• My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

  John Barrymore

  Today, Hot, Tails

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

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• Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.

  William Congreve

  Wise, Cheer, Grateful

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• Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.

  John Denham

  Ignorance, Light, Sight

  Sir John Denham (1751). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.108

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