Famous Quotes & Sayings

Monica Baldwin

I had forgotten what mustard fields looked like... Sheet upon sheet of blazing yellow, half way between sulphur and celandine, with hot golden sunshine pouring down upon them out of a dazzling June sky. It thrilled me like music.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.

Lesley Gore

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

Thomas A. Edison

When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.

Toni Morrison

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.

Tom Coburn

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

Thomas Carlyle

Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is... the Shadow of Ourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live in the sunshine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

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.

Richelle Mead

Don't worry, little dhampir. You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll always be like sunshine to me.

Richard Baxter

Is it not enough that all the world is against us, but we must also be against one another? O happy days of persecution, which drove us together in love, whom the sunshine of liberty and prosperity crumbles into dust by our contentions!

Rick Riordan

You, sir, are a ray of sunshine. -Percy Jackson

Rhonda Byrne

Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.

Mother Teresa

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.

Rene Descartes

Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates.

Sandra Bullock

I love thongs. The day they were invented, sunshine broke through the clouds.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.

Samuel Johnson

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

Samuel Johnson

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Robert Hunter

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?

Robert Palmer

Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.

Virginia Woolf

The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

William Blake

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.

Samuel Beckett

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

Wilfrid Sheed

The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."

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.

James A. Garfield

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Jim Carrey

I think projects find me. It's really interesting. Everything I've done, from "The Truman Show," the "Eternal Sunshine" to "Yes Man" and "Bruce Almighty," always come into my life at the perfect time.

Jerzy Kosinski

Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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