Sunlight Quotes - Page 16

• when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light of a room, the minute of the day. Mouths reveal insecurity or smugness or any other point on the spectrum of character. For him they are the most intricate aspect of faces. He's never sure what an eye reveals. but he can read how mouths darken into callousness, suggest tenderness. One can often misjudge an eye from its reaction to a simple beam of sunlight.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Character, Eye, Simple

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• All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Book, Dust

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• Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Missing, Kitchen, Infidelity

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• I had looked forward
  to old age as a time
  of quietness, a time to draw
  my horizons about me,
  to watch memories ripening
  in the sunlight of a walled garden.
  But there is the void
  over my head and the distance
  within that the tireless signals
  come from. And astronaut
  on impossible journeys
  to the far side of the self
  I return with messages
  I cannot decipher.

  R. S. Thomas

  Memories, Distance, Journey

  "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("The New Mariner", p. 99), 1981.

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• Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

  Robert Frost

  Boys, Men, Imagination

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• The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right by those who know them and love them. This is a little-known truth, but I think it is a truth nonetheless. Empirically, from all the years of my work, I would attest to that. I know it is a miraculous conclusion, but there it is. We like to make strangers of everyone. We are not wolves, but lambs astonished in the margins of the fields by sunlight and summer.

  Sebastian Barry

  Summer, Thinking, Years

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• Place unopened pouch in warm water for 5-10 minutes. Unopened pouch may be laid on a warm surface. Lay unopened pouch in direct sunlight. Not much chance of that down here. Place unopened pouch inside you shirt, allow you body temperature to warm your MRE. I was surprised they left out: Place unopened pouch on ground and pee on it.

  S.A. Bodeen

  Water, Body, May

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• When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to the great white throne. For them Gethsemane is as paradise. God fills it with sacred presences; its solemn silence is broken by the music of tender promises, its awful darkness softened and brightened by the sunlight of Heavenly faces and the music of angel wings.

  Frederic Farrar

  Friday, Children, Lying

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• Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Weather, Fields

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.84, Heron Dance Press

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• This / is the use of trampolines / I will remember, the broken sunlight / Coming through the trees in a strange / Land, and lighting up my rising / And falling children, and their friends, / And the apples falling, / The new trees rising.

  Gerard Woodward

  Children, Fall, Land

  Gerard Woodward (2012). “The Seacunny”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.

  Rumi

  Dancing, Soul, Shadow

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• There’s nothing left of me.
  I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
  Is it still a stone, or a world
  made of redness? It has no resistance
  to sunlight.

  Rumi

  Sunrise, Rubies, World

  "Head and Heart: A Personal Exploration of Science and the Sacred". Book by Victor Mansfield, 2002.

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• The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

  Pat Conroy

  Tree, Fruit, Changed

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.261, Open Road Media

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• I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.

  Francine Prose

  Morning, Loss, Feel Better

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• Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the end of the rainbow. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shinning through death.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Home, Love Is

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.3, Harmony

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• Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.

  Joë Bousquet

  Echoes, Wind, Body

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• So it's true. You can walk in sunlight. I thought perhaps it might have worn off." "If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I'll let you know.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flames, Might, True You

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• When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of mistaking it for a commodity, or a fuel, or a collection of chemical nutrients. No, in the eye of the cook or the gardener ... this food reveals itself for what it is: no mere thing but a web of relationships among a great many living beings, some of them human, some not, but each of them dependent on each other, and all of them ultimately rooted in soil and nourished by sunlight.

  Michael Pollan

  Eye, Cooking, Alive

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• The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.

  Larry McMurtry

  Earth

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.573, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine.

  Frederick Douglass

  Father, Distance, Healing

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. ... Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen.(Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367)

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Butterfly, Night, Sight

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• this is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer) charity to Balthazar You remind me of too much. you remind me of what it felt like to be alive, to think of sunlight as something you could enjoy instead of something you could bare, to breath and have it change you, refresh you, awaken you, instead of just churning on and on some old useless habit that taunts you with what you use to be, to sigh and feel relief, to cry and let your sadness pass, instead of having it all bottled up inside of you forever and ever until you don't know who you are any more.

  Claudia Gray

  Sadness, Thinking, Forever

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• She turned to the sunlight     And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor:     "Winter is dead.

  A. A. Milne

  Spring, Winter, Yellow

  A.A. Milne (1950). “When We Were Very Young”, GoodBook Classics

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• We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Stuff

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