296 Quotes on Sun

• Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

  Author: Barry Zito

• If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.

  Author: Loretta Young

• Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

  Author: Brigham Young

• About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

  Author: Frank Yerby

• Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

  Author: Frank Wright

• These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

  Author: Charlotte Whitton

• Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

  Author: Minor White

• This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

  Author: Adam Weishaupt

• Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

  Author: Charles Warner

• A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

  Author: Edmund Waller

• To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.

  Author: Benjamin Wade

• You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer.

  Author: Sol Wachtler

• The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

  Author: Bernard Voto

• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

  Author: David Viscott

• To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

  Author: David Viscott

• The cause of these global changes is fundamentally due to the Sun and its effect on the Earth as it moves about in its orbit. Not from man-made activities.

  Author: William Vaughan

• The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.

  Author: Liv Tyler

• I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

  Author: Harriet Tubman

• I shine in tears like the sun in April.

  Author: Cyril Tourneur

• Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

  Author: Peter Tork

• Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Author: Mother Teresa

• My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.

  Author: Picabo Street

• The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

  Author: Wallace Stevens

• This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!

  Author: Danielle Steel

• Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

  Author: Stephen Spender

• I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach.

  Author: Lisa Snowdon

• Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

  Author: Logan Smith

• I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

  Author: Peter Singer

• Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

  Author: Paul Simon

• Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

  Author: Beverly Sills

• People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

  Author: Clare Short

• I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

  Author: Richard Sheridan

• I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all.

  Author: Peter Shaffer

• I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's.

  Author: Brian Setzer

• I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period.

  Author: Brian Setzer

• People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

  Author: Brian Setzer

• I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light.

  Author: Michael Servetus

• My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.

  Author: Alexander Scriabin

• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

  Author: Albert Schweitzer

• Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

  Author: Simone Schwarz-Bart

• Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.

  Author: Simone Schwarz-Bart

• As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

  Author: Friedrich Schiller

• I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

  Author: Carl Sagan

• When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

  Author: Wilma Rudolph

• Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day.

  Author: Darrell Royal

• It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

  Author: Romain Rolland

• Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

  Author: Frances Rodman

• Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.

  Author: Norman Rockwell

• The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

  Author: John Rockefeller

• On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.

  Author: Robin Roberts

• Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

  Author: Marty Robbins

• To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

  Author: Geraldo Rivera

• Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

  Author: Antoine Rivarol

• But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

  Author: Arthur Rimbaud

• A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

• You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

  Author: Keith Richards

• I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

  Author: Charlie Rich

• The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

  Author: Eric Raymond

• Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

  Author: Ramakrishna

• Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

  Author: Thomas Quincey

• All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.

  Author: Katie Price

• When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.

  Author: Katie Price

• Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

  Author: Elvis Presley

• I'm not a sun person.

  Author: Laura Prepon

• If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

  Author: Susan Powter

• I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

  Author: George Porter

• When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

  Author: Marcus Pollio

• The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

  Author: Plautus

• I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you.

  Author: Ruth Pitter

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  Author: Pablo Picasso

• I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

  Author: Bernadette Peters

• Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

  Author: Evita Peron

• I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.

  Author: Harvey Pekar

• By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

  Author: Cynthia Payne

• Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

  Author: Jean Paul

• I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.

  Author: Tatjana Patitz

• Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

  Author: Walter Pater

• Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Author: Satchel Paige

• The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

  Author: George Orwell

• The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

  Author: Barney Oliver

• In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback.

  Author: Mike Oldfield

• Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.

  Author: Georgia O'Keeffe

• The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.

  Author: Frank Nugent

• Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place.

  Author: Claude Nicollier

• Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

  Author: Simon Newcomb

• In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

  Author: Simon Newcomb

• Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

  Author: Kent Nerburn

• What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

  Author: Anna Neagle

• Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

  Author: Taslima Nasrin

• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

  Author: Ralph Nader

• Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

  Author: Max Muller

• What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?

  Author: Max Muller

• Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

  Author: John Muir

• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

  Author: John Muir

• Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

  Author: John Morley

• The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.

  Author: Marguerite Moreau

• To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

  Author: Jeanne Moreau

• There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

  Author: Thomas More

• A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.

  Author: Sun Moon

• The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

  Author: Kylie Minogue

• He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

  Author: John Milton

• Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

  Author: John Milton

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  Author: Ed Miliband

• Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

  Author: Herman Melville

• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  Author: Vince McMahon

• The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

  Author: David McKay

• When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!

  Author: Thabo Mbeki

• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

  Author: Joyce Maynard

• If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

  Author: Christy Mathewson

• Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

  Author: Marcello Mastroianni

• But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

  Author: Jose Marti

• God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

  Author: Ziggy Marley

• Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

  Author: Nelson Mandela

• You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

  Author: Maxwell Maltz

• If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

  Author: Arthur Machen

• Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

  Author: Robert Lynd

• The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

  Author: John Lyly

• NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.

  Author: James Lovelock

• There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting.

  Author: Augustus Longstreet

• There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide.

  Author: Bjorn Lomborg

• The sun has not yet set for all time.

  Author: Titus Livius

• Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

  Author: Sonny Liston

• The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.

  Author: El Lissitzky

• Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

  Author: Jet Li

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  Author: C. Lewis

• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  Author: C. Lewis

• Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.

  Author: Barry Levinson

• He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.

  Author: Daniel Leon

• Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

  Author: John Lennon

• I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.

  Author: Bill Lee

• Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

  Author: Anna Lee

• Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

  Author: Stephen Leacock

• The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.

  Author: Guy Laliberte

• The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.

  Author: Tim LaHaye

• As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.

  Author: Ted Kulongoski

• People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

  Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

• Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

  Author: Joseph Krutch

• There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

  Author: Karl Kraus

• Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

  Author: Nicole Kidman

• Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.

  Author: Nicole Kidman

• You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

  Author: Ken Kesey

• Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

  Author: Johannes Kepler

• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

  Author: John Kennedy

• I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.

  Author: Paul Kane

• Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

  Author: Chief Joseph

• From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

  Author: Chief Joseph

• O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

  Author: Ben Jonson

• Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.

  Author: John Jewel

• My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.

  Author: Al Jarreau

• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  Author: Washington Irving

• Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

  Author: Zora Hurston

• The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

  Author: Catfish Hunter

• That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

  Author: David Hume

• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?

  Author: Langston Hughes

• Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

  Author: Harold Hughes

• The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.

  Author: Winslow Homer

• The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.

  Author: James Hogg

• I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

  Author: Ben Hogan

• The sun is new each day.

  Author: Heraclitus

• Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!

  Author: Trip Hawkins

• The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow.

  Author: Desmond Harrington

• I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

  Author: Cedric Hardwicke

• The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

  Author: Learned Hand

• I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

  Author: Pete Hamill

• Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

  Author: Edmond Halley

• The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

  Author: Conrad Hall

• The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

  Author: Albert Gyorgyi

• Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

  Author: William Gurnall

• Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

  Author: Franz Grillparzer

• I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

  Author: Thomas Griffith

• In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

  Author: Dick Gregory

• Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.

  Author: Wilson Greatbatch

• George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

  Author: Al Gore

• It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.

  Author: Jeff Goldblum

• You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

  Author: Elizabeth Gilbert

• Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

  Author: Khalil Gibran

• Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune.

  Author: Gordon Getty

• I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

  Author: Geronimo

• I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

  Author: Geronimo

• I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

  Author: Geronimo

• There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

  Author: Hamlin Garland

• The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

  Author: Galileo Galilei

• The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

  Author: Sigmund Freud

• At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening.

  Author: James Frank

• The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.

  Author: John Foxe

• Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers.

  Author: John Fowler

• I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

  Author: Frances Farmer

• A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.

  Author: Ray Evans

• Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

• The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

  Author: Henry Ellis

• The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

  Author: Havelock Ellis

• I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

  Author: Linda Ellerbee

• He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

  Author: George Eliot

• The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.

  Author: Paul Ehrlich

• Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

  Author: Arthur Eddington

• I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

  Author: David Eddings

• The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

  Author: Dale Earnhardt

• I'm not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there's no harm in hot water when it's warmed by the sun.

  Author: Julia Dreyfus

• And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

  Author: John Donne

• Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

  Author: John Donne

• The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

  Author: Diogenes

• The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

  Author: Diogenes

• Stand a little less between me and the sun.

  Author: Diogenes

• It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

  Author: Charles Dickens

• Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

  Author: Richard Dawkins

• The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

  Author: Rebecca Davis

• One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

  Author: Elmer Davis

• Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

  Author: Samuel Daniel

• Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.

  Author: Nicholas Culpeper

• I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

  Author: Abraham Crowley

• Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

  Author: Martin Creveld

• In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

  Author: Martin Creveld

• And if you dont believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

  Author: Chris Cornell

• Near the sun is the center of the universe.

  Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

• Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

  Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

• At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.

  Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

• The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

  Author: Confucius

• Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

  Author: Christopher Columbus

• The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

  Author: Paula Cole

• Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

  Author: Frank Colby

• When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

  Author: Edward Cocker

• Thought the sun is gone, I have a light.

  Author: Kurt Cobain

• She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

  Author: Kate Chopin

• What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.

  Author: Lee Child

• The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

  Author: Malcolm Chazal

• People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

  Author: John Chapman

• The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

  Author: Chanakya

• A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

  Author: Adelbert Chamisso

• I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

  Author: George Catlin

• The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

  Author: Willa Cather

• Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

  Author: Nancy Cartwright

• A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

  Author: Thomas Carlyle

• To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

  Author: Albert Camus

• Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

  Author: Thomas Campion

• I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

  Author: James Cameron

• Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.

  Author: Jeb Bush

• To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

  Author: Robert Burton

• If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.

  Author: Abigail Buren

• Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

  Author: Sitting Bull

• The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.

  Author: Sitting Bull

• When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

  Author: Sitting Bull

• They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

  Author: Emma Bull

• Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

  Author: Buddha

• All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.

  Author: Jeff Buckley

• My sun sets to rise again.

  Author: Robert Browning

• My sun sets to raise again.

  Author: Elizabeth Browning

• The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.

  Author: Vanessa Brown

• Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.

  Author: Ruth Brown

• Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

  Author: David Brower

• For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

  Author: David Brower

• Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

  Author: Rupert Brooke

• True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

  Author: Barton Booth

• When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

  Author: Elayne Boosler

• Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.

  Author: Arna Bontemps

• On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

  Author: Erma Bombeck

• I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.

  Author: Dewitt Bodeen

• Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

  Author: Edmund Blunden

• My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

  Author: Lionel Blue

• Lives in eternity's sun rise.

  Author: William Blake

• If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

  Author: William Blake

• To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

  Author: William Blake

• Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

  Author: Ambrose Bierce

• I'd better make hay while the sun shines.

  Author: Xander Berkeley

• The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

  Author: Cyrano Bergerac

• Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

  Author: Alexander Bell

• On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.

  Author: Max Beckmann

• And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.

  Author: Roy Bean

• The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.

  Author: Dennis Banks

• Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

  Author: Gamaliel Bailey

• You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

  Author: Sai Baba

• The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

  Author: Alfred Austin

• Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

  Author: Francis Assisi

• Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.

  Author: Thomas Arnold

• It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

  Author: Matthew Arnold

• Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

  Author: Anaxagoras

• After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

  Author: William Alger

• I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

  Author: Alan Alda

• This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

  Author: Mitch Albom

• The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

  Author: Joseph Addison

• I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

  Author: Victoria Abril

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