Sunshine Quotes - Page 23

• In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance by the great central fact of the sunshine; one might pass a lifetime, it seems, between two yawns, lying bronzed and naked in the sand.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, Lying, Years

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• Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.

  Henry Vaughan

  Eye, Light, Hands

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• My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? "Tempest o'er tempest roll'd" - still the "darkness" is majestic.

  John Constable

  Art, Darkness, Storm

  Letter to C.R. Leslie (1834), "John Constable's Correspondence," ed. R.B. Beckett, vol. 3, p. 122, 1962-1970.

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• Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

  Mao Zedong

  Nature, Flower, School

  Zedong Mao (1992). “The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976: January 1956-December 1957”, p.330, M.E. Sharpe

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• There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.

  Sarah Vowell

  Dream, Retirement, Sunset

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 06, 2010

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• If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.

  Robert Browning

  Relationship, Heart, Day Well Spent

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• If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated.

  Herbert Hoover

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Herbert Hoover (1951). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950”

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• Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.

  Dale Carnegie

  Flower, Wind, Giving

  Dale Carnegie (1982). “How To Win Friends And Influence People”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.

  J. C. Ryle

  Rain, Wind, Storm

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of the impressive and the gorgeous, and rests there. Accuracy is not necessary except in the case of aggressive, acquisitive natures, when it manifests itself in a desire to seize. True controlling sensuousness cannot be manifested in the most active dispositions, nor again in the most accurate.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Color, Desire, Information

  Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Financier”, p.95, Booklassic

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• By all means never fail to get all the sunshine and fresh air you can.

  Joseph Pilates

  Mean, Air, Failing

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morrow

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.6, Xist Publishing

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• A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, People, Mind

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• The shadow proves the sunshine.

  Jon Foreman

  Shadow, Prove

  "Song: "The Shadow Proves the Sunshine"". 2005.

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• Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that's wonderful, Is sure to come your way

  Lesley Gore

  Rainbow, Lollipop, Way

  Song: Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows, Album: Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts

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• Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Bad Day, Evening Light

  "By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

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• Don't fear the night time, Because the monsters know that you're divine. And don't fear the sunshine, Because everything is better in the summer time...

  Michael Franti

  Summertime, Monsters, Causes

  "Song: Never Too Late (Everyone Deserves Music)". June 17, 2003.

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• Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up.

  Noel Gallagher

  Rising Up, Gold, Silver

  "Song: "Bag it Up" ("Dig Out Your Soul")". 2008.

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• To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.

  Claude Monet

  Depression, Stupid, Gone

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, New York, Islands

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.683, NYU Press

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• I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.

  Mike Patton

  Song, Land, Fortune Cookie

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

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• It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Scotland, Rays, Scottish

  'Blandings Castle and Elsewhere' (1935) 'The Custody of the Pumpkin'

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• It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.

  Ben Robertson

  Powerful, Attitude, Journey

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• Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Rain, Inspire, Growth

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1875). “We and Our Neighbors: Or, The Records of an Unfashionable Street: (Sequel to "My Wife and I.") A Novel”, p.325

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• We shape ourselves the joy or fear
  Of which the coming life is made,
  And fill our Future's atmosphere
  With sunshine or with shade.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Joy, Atmosphere, Shapes

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.131

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