Sunshine Quotes - Page 19

• life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Life, Spring, Dark

  Madeleine L'Engle (1981). “Camilla”, Doubleday

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• Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy, things are sweet-tempered. Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Sweet, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.456

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• There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

  Willa Cather

  Spring, Clouds, Light

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a genre that seeks to break free of parochialism and think about where and why and what we are without the language of religion... I loved Sunshine for its radical proposal that humans can and will do something about a catastrophe, and that our weapons could be used up in the service of preservation.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Intelligent, Thinking, Fiction

  "Sunshine" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2007.

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• Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple human life that we all more or less lead, with its crude elementals of nurture and appetite, love and competition, the sunshine of well-being and the inevitable night of death. We each live this tale. Fiction has no reason to be embarrassed about telling the same story again and again, since we all, with infinite variations, experience the same story.

  John Updike

  Home, Simple, Night

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• God does not give His grace as He gives His sunshine - pouring it out on all alike. He discriminates in spiritual blessings. He gives strength according to our need. His eye is ever on us in tender, watchful love, and what we need He supplies.

  J.R. Miller

  Spiritual, Eye, Blessing

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• When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine."

  Diogenes

  Littles, Greetings, Wanted

  "Life of Alexander (Parallel Lives series)". Book by Plutarch, 1579.

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• How different South Africa’s cricketing achievements, and indeed the future of the country itself, might have been if racism had not denied Frank Roro the opportunity of batting with Bruce Mitchell in the Lord’s sunshine.

  Richard Lloyd

  Country, Opportunity, Racism

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• I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Walks, Streets

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Being unhappy means... Even if you want to love, because of a scar, you can't. Even though you don't want to be alone, because of that scar, you can't help but be alone. Even in bright sunshine, alone, you feel like you are lost in dark darkness.

  Min Sook Lee

  Drama, Mean, Dark

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• Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

  Albert Theodore Powers

  Baseball, Father, Son

  Albert Theodore Powers (2003). “The Business of Baseball”, p.8, McFarland

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• I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dream, Believe, Men

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2010). “Darkwater: The Givens Collection”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I was born to catch dragons in their dens
  And pick flowers
  To tell tales and laugh away the morning
  To drift and dream like a lazy stream
  And walk barefoot across sunshine days.

  James Kavanaugh

  Dream, Morning, Flower

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• The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Community, Soul, Brotherhood

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• How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

  Mian Mian

  Beautiful, Wind, Rivers

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• There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Global Warming, Problem, Enjoy

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• In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the frost and shadow of the grave. He feels no prophecy in the thrill of the human heart-in the incompleteness of nature. He believes merely in things tangible, and sees only in the daytime. He will not confess the authenticity of that paler light of faith which was meant to shine when the sunshine of reason falls short, and the firmament of mystery is over our heads.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Faith, Fall, Believe

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• It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless competitor for it flatters and nourishes our weaknesses and lulls us into complacency. We bask in the sunshine of accomplishment and lose the spirit of humility which helps us visualize all the factors which have contributed to our success. We are apt to forget that we are only one of a team, that in unity there is strength and that we are strong only as long as each unit in our organization functions with precision.

  Samuel J. Tilden

  Leadership, Strong, Team

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• I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

  Horace

  Father, Clouds, Sky

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book III, ode xxix, line 41, c. 23 BC, 13 BC.

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• Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

  Pindar

  Dream, Men, Light

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• Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

  Ernie Banks

  Baseball, Spring, Flower

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• After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!

  Obafemi Awolowo

  Beautiful, Lying, Rain

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• What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe.

  W. C. Fields

  Mother, Brother, Gorgeous

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

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• I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It's not a wine, it's a life, right there in the glass.

  Nick Harkaway

  Wine, Dark, Scotch

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• Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine.

  Christopher Flavin

  Wind, Energy, United States

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