Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis D. Brandeis

Sunshine is the best disinfectant

Louis D. Brandeis

Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant

Loren Eiseley

If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.

O. Henry

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

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.

Karen Kingsbury

sunshine is just beyond the clouds" Carl Joesph Gunner

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.

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.

Romain Rolland

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live in the sunshine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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.

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.

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

Madame de Stael

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

Harlan Ellison

Why let them order you about? Why let them tell you to hurry and scurry like ants or maggots? Take your time! Saunter a while! Enjoy the sunshine, enjoy the breeze, let life carry you at your own pace! Don't be slaves of time, it's a helluva way to die, slowly, by degrees...down with the Ticktockman!

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.

Rick Perry

I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.

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!

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.

Ruth Benedict

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

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.

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?