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Quotes About Sun

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.
~ Liya Kebede
Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.
~ Bill Bryson
Comets develop their distinctive tails when their surface material begins to evaporate as they approach the Sun.
~ Bill Bryson
On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun.
~ Bill Bryson
The transit of Venus of 1769 finally allowed us to determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun: 149.59 million kilometres. A
~ Bill Bryson
The upward flow of ancient heat to the Earth's surface is measured in tens of milliwatts per square metre; the flow from the Sun above is measured in hundreds of watts per square metre.
~ Bill Bryson
Most star systems in the cosmos are binary (double-starred), which makes our solitary sun a slight oddity.
~ Bill Bryson
Well, one school of thought says it was actually cool then because the sun was much weaker.' (I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as 'the Chinese restaurant problem' – because we had a dim sun.)
~ Bill Bryson
When you feel the sun warm on your back on a summer's day, it's really excited atoms you feel. The higher you climb, the fewer molecules there are, and so the fewer collisions between them.
~ Bill Bryson
an atmosphere ultraviolet rays from the sun, even from a weak sun, would have tended to break apart any incipient bonds made by molecules. And yet right there"—she tapped the stromatolites—"you have organisms almost at the surface. It's a puzzle.
~ Bill Bryson
New Calendar The poem of next year every week a line, every month a stanza, and a tiny sun rising and setting in every numbered square.
~ Billy Collins
This dog is mine, said those poor children; that is my place in the sun. Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth.
~ Blaise Pascal
Seasons don't fear the Reaper, nor do the Sun, the Wind or the Rain. We can be like they are. Come on, baby, don't fear the Reaper.
~ Blue Öyster Cult
The sun's not yellow, its chicken!
~ Bob Dylan
If you think the summer sun is too hot, just remember, at least you don't have to shovel it.
~ Bob Dylan
The sun isn't yellow, it's chicken
~ Bob Dylan
I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the room, went to the stove and made and poured myself a cup of hot chocolate and then clicked on the radio
~ Bob Dylan
Then you notice the cherry blossoms, and you see that nature is unaffected by all this. Poplar trees, the red butterflies, the fragile beauty of flowers, the sun—you see how nature is indifferent to it all.
~ Bob Dylan
Una fiamma d'ultimo sole lo disegna.
~ BORGES JORGE LUIS
Winter had long since come. It was freezing cold. Torn-up sounds and forms appeared with no evident connection from the frosty mist, stood, moved, vanished. Not the sun we are accustomed to on earth, but the crimson ball of some other substitute sun hung in the forest. From it, strainedly and slowly, as in a dream or a fairy tale, rays of amber yellow light, thick as honey, spread and on their way congealed in the air and froze to the trees.
~ Boris Pasternak
auringon kilo pani silmät vipajamaan
~ Boris Pasternak
The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of the setting sun.
~ Bram Stocker
Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat.
~ Susanna Kaysen
la felicidad siempre tiene un objeto, somo felices por algo,es un sentimiento cuya existencia depende del exterior. La alegría, en cambio, no tiene objeto. Te posee sin ningún motivo aparente, en su esencia se parece al sol: arde gracias a la combustión de su propio corazón.
~ Susanna Tamaro