Sun Quotes

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.

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.

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

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

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.

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

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.

I didn't come out until 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening. Sleep all day, sleep and cook and eat, stay in the house. That sun is hot, anyway. It ain't right out there.

I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.

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

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

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

The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.

The sun never sets on my gallery.

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.

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

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.

Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

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

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.

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.

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.

The sun is new each day.

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

Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

There is no need for nuclear. The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone.

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

My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.

When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

I can find every jacket under the sun that I like. But I cannot find trousers cut the way I want them. They're all really tight at the bottom. Nobody does a boot cut on a trouser leg. It drives me crazy.

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.

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.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

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

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

I was a big shiny, glittery-type person. Now I'm a jeans and T-shirt girl, or I'll wear sun dresses and cowboy boots in the summer. But at first I had to have stylists tell me, 'That's ugly.'

I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that's a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands, mountains. Other countries that have that are known for it, but Haiti has been so focused inwards, on its problems.

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.

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

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.

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

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

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!

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

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

Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

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?

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

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

I'd love to do yoga every day. I don't usually have time, but a few sun salutations go a long way.

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.

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

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

'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

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.

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

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.

My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach.

The thing to remember about Phuket is it's very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.

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.

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

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

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

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

If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.

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

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

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

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.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

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.

As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.

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

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?