Sunshine Quotes - Page 26

• There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Weather, Mind

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• A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.

  Toni Morrison

  Orange Trees, Sky, Seductive

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Tar Baby”, New Amer Library

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• Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Love, Stars, Heart

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2012). “Morning by Morning for Graduates”, p.49, Hendrickson Publishers

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• But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

  William Blake

  Done, Masters, Knows

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

  Thomas Paine

  Love, Summer, Country

  The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776

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• Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

  Laurence Sterne

  Reading, Soul

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 1, ch. 22

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• It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.

  E. M. Forster

  Beautiful, Sports, Eye

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

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• Strive to have sunshine in our hearts each day. It will greatly improve our outlook.

  Tom Baker

  Heart, Each Day, Strive

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• It means I wake up to sunshine every morning, and I can afford to drink better wine at night. But I haven't completely sold out to Hollywood.

  Ashley Jensen

  Morning, Wine, Mean

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• We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench

  Samuel Beckett

  Trying, Together, Rays

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.111, Grove Press

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• Outside the windows the day was bright: golden sunshine, blue sky, pleasant wind . . . I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about.

  Ilona Andrews

  Hair, Blue, Wind

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.125, Penguin

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• My kids are my No. 1 priority. Theyre the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.

  Thalia

  Kids, Eye, Responsibility

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• Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Summer, Strong

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1838). “Oliver Twist: Or, The Parish Boy's Progress”

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• Life has many changes. Tomorrow it may rain, and it's supposed to be sunshine, 'cause it's summertime. But God's got a funny soul, he plays like Charlie Parker.

  Charles Mingus

  Rain, Play, Summertime

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• But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sound, Different, Call Me

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• Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Travel, Land, Giving

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• What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,
  The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy,
  Is virtue's prize.

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Giving, Joy

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.137

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• He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that might pursue him. As a child he had stood by the seashore at Ljósavík and watched the waves soughing in and out, but now he was heading away from the sea. "Think of me when you are in glorious sunshine." Soon the sun of the day of resurrection will shine on the bright paths where she awaits her poet. And beauty shall reign alone.

  Halldór Laxness

  Children, Thinking, Shine On

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• The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

  James F. Cooper

  Past, Roots, Tree

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• Tell me the name of your best friend. (Sunshine) Wulf Tryggvason. (Talon) Oh my God, you just answered a question. I think the world may end over it. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Names, World

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• But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be done.

  Charles Mackay

  Running, Truth, Light

  Charles Mackay (1853). “Voices from the Mountains and from the Crowd”, p.24

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• Would you leave me alone, you walking pair of boots! Let go of my easel, you refugee from a luggage factory. If you need some wood for a toothpick, there’s a bunch of it on the porch. (Sunshine) Beth. What are you doing?...She says she was forcing you inside before it got dark and something decided to eat you. (Talon) Tell Swamp Breath I was headed this way. Why was she…Oh jeez, am I really have a conversation with a gator? (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Letting Go, Dark, Leave Me Alone

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• The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine...Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.

  Hudson Taylor

  Jesus, Rain, Worry

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• Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

  Jim Davis

  Good Morning, Monday, Good Day

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• Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Two, Heaven, Genius

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.270

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