Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Tebbit

The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.

O. Henry

He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

Nostradamus

Tomorrow at sunrise I shall no longer be here.

Emilie Autumn

Life is not like Gloomy Sunday, with a second ending when the people are disturbed.

Emily Dickinson

Sunrise: day's great progenitor.

Emily Dickinson

Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

Emily Dickinson

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

Henry Ward Beecher

There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week

Henry James

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

John Knowles

We are all born equally far from the sun.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine , guard it well.

Jimmie Davis

Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.

John Hartford

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

Anna Jameson

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.

Edgar Allan Poe

Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

At the end of Sunday afternoon, we just want to be 2-1.

Gerard Way

I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it.

Gerard Way

I got sunburnt which is obviously a drag for me because in theory the sun is supposed to kill me.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The trick, my brethren and sisters is to enjoy the journey, traveling hand in hand, in sunshine and storm, as companions who love one another.

Gerry Adams

I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.

Herman Melville

An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.

Henry David Thoreau

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

Jean Paul Gaultier

I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.

Eugene H. Peterson

The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.

Etta James

I want a Sunday kind of love A love to last past Saturday night And I’d like to know it’s more than love at first sight

Erma Bombeck

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted.