Sunshine Quotes - Page 22

• It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

  George William Curtis

  Christmas, June, Rose

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

  Anita Bryant

  Orange Juice, Breakfast, Orange

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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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• A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one thinks of admiring it. But if you bring it into the sunshine, this pearl will shine and attract all eyes. Thus the pure soul, which is hidden from the eyes of the world, will one day shine before the Angels in the sunshine of eternity.

  John Vianney

  Eye, Angel, Thinking

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• To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them but that they carry with them love, peace and joy. That they become the sunshine of God's love to our people, the hope of eternal happiness and the burning flame of love wherever they go. That they become carriers of God's love. That they be able to give what they have received. For they have received not to keep, but to share.

  Mother Teresa

  Flames, People, Giving

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• And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

  Thomas Moore

  Nature, Flower, Heart

  Thomas Moore (1845). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Etc”, p.174

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• Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

  Theodore Roethke

  Nature, Attitude, Flower

  Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.40, Copper Canyon Press

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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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• 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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• God is with us to be utilised. His Power, His Love, His Thought, His Presence, must be at our disposal, like other great forces, such as sunshine and wind and rain. We can use them or not, as we please. That we could use them to their full potentiality is, of course, not to be thought of; but we can use them in proportion to our ability.

  Basil King

  Love, Rain, Power

  "The Conquest of Fear".

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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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• I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine, it will soon evaporate. If we put it in the ocean, however, it will never be lost. Thus the wish is made that we not keep the teachings to ourselves but to use them to benefit others.

  Pema Chodron

  Spring, Ocean, Teaching

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• There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Simple, Long, Southern

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.206

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• Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!

  John Galsworthy

  Weed, Flower, Night

  John Galsworthy (2011). “The Forsyte Saga 1: The Man of Property: The Forsyte Saga: Book One”, p.107, Hachette UK

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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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• Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.

  Cyril Connolly

  Memories, Wine, Water

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• A mother's love is like a tower, Rising far above the crowd, And her smile is like the sunshine, Breaking through a threatening cloud.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Love Is

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Air, Doors, America

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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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• I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a lot. In New York, it can be gray and rainy and cold, and you still don't have any money, and you feel like a bad Dickens character.

  Rich Sommer

  Jobs, New York, Character

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• L.A., its nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Nice, Sleep

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• Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That's about it.

  Krist Novoselic

  Fun, Cake, Hobbies

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• And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

  John Milton

  Holiday, Play, Dancing

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 94

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• The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Brilliant, Youth, Tempest

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.

  John Muir

  Country, Men, Rocks

  "From Fort Independence to Yosemite". San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 6 of the 11 part series "Summering in the Sierra"), September 15, 1875.

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