quotations about the sun
The rising sun teaches us that time is; that we should regulate it, and perform our duties punctually; and that we should prepare for that glorious existence when time shall be no more.
C. J. WHITE
attributed, Day's Collacon
I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Storm of Swords
I'm not the only one
Staring at the sun
Afraid of what you'd find
If you take a look inside.
Not just deaf and dumb
I am staring at the sun
Not the only one
Who's happy to go blind.
U2
"Staring at the Sun"
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
SEAN O'CASEY
Red Roses for Me
I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
RAY BRADBURY
Fahrenheit 451
The sun, though it light a palace, does not disdain to fall with its golden woof on the straw-thatched cottage roof.
CALDERON
attributed, Day's Collacon
The rich sunset makes the most sterile landscape enchanting.
ELIZA COOK
Eliza Cook's Journal
The sun sets that night may come, and men may again rejoice over a new dawn.
JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER
Philosophy of History, Part II
Being in the sun is like going to parties. Too much ages your skin. Too little can age inside you, like your bones.
BRUCE Y. LEE
"Health Tips That Helped 63-Year-Old Christie Brinkley Make SI's Swimsuit Issue", Forbes, February 12, 2017
He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day;
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun.
JOHN MILTON
Comus
The same sun that warmeth vegetable matter into life, and robeth the face of nature with beauty, shineth as brightly as it did before the footprints of man could be seen in the garden of Eden.
JAMES LINEN
"Desultorious Chronicles", The Poetical and Prose Writings of James Linen
The sun, which is as the great soul of the universe, and produces all the necessaries of life, has a particular influence in cheering the mind of man, and making the heart glad.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, May 24, 1712
The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
FRANCIS BACON
Advancement of Learning
It may be objected that a man cannot subsist in the sun; but does it follow from thence, that God cannot or has not constituted a nature peculiar to that fiery region, and caused it to be as natural and necessary for it to suck in and breathe out flames of fire, as it is for us to do the like in air.
ETHAN ALLEN
Reason: The Only Oracle of Man
The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.
EMILY DICKINSON
"The Sun's Wooing", Poems: Second Series
The sun at the center of our Solar System is one of the big reasons why we're here today, but it can also be a bit of a nuisance from time to time. Coronal mass ejections -- when the sun spews a whole bunch of plasma and energy into space -- can seriously mess up human communication infrastructure if they happen to graze Earth. For years, researchers have attempted to forecast and predict CMEs in the hopes that warnings could help prevent damage to electronics and the power grid, and when doing so, they've modeled the huge solar blasts as bubbles moving through space. As it turns out, a CME is more like a sneeze.
MIKE WEHNER
"Scientist says the sun is sneezing on Earth", BGR, June 23, 2017
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom friend of the maturing sun
JOHN KEATS
"Ode to Autumn"
Standing in the Alpha Beta parking lot
Watching the sun set
I'll never forget
Watching all the reds and oranges slip away
Letting go of yet another dirty day
CAKE
"Alpha Beta Parking Lot"
The rising sun reminds us of the mind emerging from the dark night of ignorance, and with its clear rays of truth dispelling the clouds of prejudice and superstition.
RAY PALMER
attributed, Day's Collacon