Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.

George Bernard Shaw

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

Frederick William Faber

If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.

Frank Turner

I don't wanna spend the whole of my life indoors, laying low and waiting on the next storm. I don't wanna spend the whole of my life inside, I wanna step out and face the sunshine.

Randy Jones

Sometimes in life, you have to weather the storm. And when you do, there is always sunshine at the end.

Erin Hunter

His words are nothing more than mist and sunshine, impossible to hold down.

Helen Keller

If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows.

Ernest Rutherford

When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We shall have found the basis of everything — of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small — except life.

Kate Christensen

My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping.

Ken Kesey

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.

Jack London

To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.

Jerry Bridges

Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.

Honore de Balzac

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

Kenneth Grahame

There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.

Emily Dickinson

Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.

Ella Maillart

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

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 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.

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.

Napoleon Hill

When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

O. Henry

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

Michael Franti

Don't fear the nighttime, cause the monsters know that you're divine. Don't fear the sunshine, cause everything's better in the summertime

James Lovelock

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.

Jimmie Davis

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

John Oliver

I think it might honestly be time for the Sunshine State to officially change its motto to the Worst State.

John Denver

Sunshine on the water looks so lovely

John Denver

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.

John Cornyn

I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use 'a little Texas sunshine.'

Lois Lowry

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

Lucy Larcom

If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of the winds that whispered to it, of the birds that sang around it, of the storms that visited it, and of the motherly tree that held it and fed it until its petals were unfolded and its form developed.

Louisa May Alcott

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

Louisa May Alcott

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.