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Quotes About Sun

The Italians are called Children of the Sun. They might better be called Children of the Shadow. Their souls are dark and nocturnal.
~ D.H. Lawrence
On every side the immense dark silence seemed pressing him, so tiny a speck, into extinction, and yet, almost nothing, he could not be extinct. Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spinning round for terror and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core a nothingness, and yet not nothing.
~ D.H. Lawrence
The new wallpaper looks pretty," she called out to me. The back-door screen made a veil for her face. "What are you doing out there by the ash can?" "Nothing," I told her. Bees were in the grass and the afternoon sun warmed my face and arms. I had just found the mint.
~ Wally Lamb
Papa had loved to sit out here among his grapes and chicken coops and tomato and pepper plants—to sit in the sun and sip his homemade wine and remember Sicily. .
~ Wally Lamb
Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
~ Walt Whitman
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. [ Give me the splendid silent sun ]
~ Walt Whitman
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
~ Walt Whitman
Be composed--be at ease with me--I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.
~ Walt Whitman
Sun so generous it shall be you- Leaves of Grass
~ Walt Whitman
Mantén tu rostro siempre hacia la luz del sol, y las sombras caerán detrás de ti.
~ Walt Whitman
The poet] is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
~ Walt Whitman
O to have life henceforth a poem of new joys! To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on! To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports, A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,) A swift and swelling ship full of rich words, full of joys.
~ Walt Whitman
manifest themselves in this struggle as courage, humor, cunning, and fortitude. They have retroactive force and will constantly call in question every victory, past and present, of the rulers. As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which is rising in the sky of history. A historical materialist must be aware of this most inconspicuous of all transformations.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
The Aztecs, it is often alluded and condemned, sacrificed human bodies to keep the Sun ongoing. Western modernity sacrifices (and it is accepted) whatever is needed to keep Civilization ongoing.
~ Walter D. Mignolo
My head had been shaved, I was wearing Indian cotton robes, and my skin had turned a deep, chocolate brown-red from the sun," he recalled. "So I'm sitting there and my parents walked past me about five times and finally my mother came up and said 'Steve?' and I said 'Hi!
~ Walter Isaacson
Apple's chief technology officer, Ellen Hancock, argued for going with Sun's UNIX-based Solaris operating system, even though it did not yet have a friendly user interface. Amelio began to favor using, of all things, Microsoft's Windows NT, which he felt could be rejiggered on the surface to look and feel just like a Mac while being compatible
~ Walter Isaacson
But all that a king can give to a people is a smile, such as the sun bestows on the snowy peaks of the Grampian mountains, as distant and as ineffectual. Alas
~ Walter Scott
The joy of her smiles and laughs seemed, to Mister Sun, to be in her genuine surprise at their arrival, as if strong emotions traveled some miles to get here and showed up without warning.
~ Warren Ellis
If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through that tiny opening called the mouth. O someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly laughing— Now!
~ Wayne W. Dyer
I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day's great sun.
~ Charles Hanson Towne
[E]very winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into the vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay— Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses...
~ Charles Kingsley
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
~ Charles Kingsley
Whenever the sun is shining, I feel obligated to play outside!
~ Charles M. Schulz
Oh, you tears, I'm thankful that you run. Though you trickle in the darkness, You shall glitter in the sun. The rainbow could not shine if the rain refused to fall; And the eyes that cannot weep are the saddest eyes of all.
~ Charles Mackay