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Quotes About Sun

JENNET What can you see Out there? THOMAS Out here? Out here is a sky so gentle Five stars are ventured on it. I can see The sky's pale belly glowing and growing big, Soon to deliver the moon. And I can see A glittering smear, the snail-trail of the sun Where it crawled with its golden shell into the hills. A darkening land sunken into prayer Lucidly in dewdrops of one syllable, Nunc dimittis. I see twilight, madam. JENNET But what can you hear? THOMAS The howl of human jackals-.
~ Christopher Fry
With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.
~ Heinrich Heine
A brilliant white light beat pitilessly down, like the fierce desert sun at midday on the French Foreign Legion; the glittering floor dazzled the eye with the cruel desert glare. We walked slowly through the cereals.
~ Helen DeWitt
the sun rose like an emperor, beaming over a shocked blue sky.
~ Helen Fremont
We call them murmurations, but the Danish term, sort sol , is better: black sun.
~ Helen Macdonald
a torn-paper whiteness behind the sun that speaks of frost to come.
~ Helen Macdonald
They had 'decided … to make themselves as ugly as they could' by soaking up the sun, hatless, on the journey from Livadia, 'so that Carol should not fall in love with any of them'.
~ Helen Rappaport
A woman who's clearly had too much sun in her time and now resembles a mahogany-hued marmoset
~ Helen Russell
Once the thermal radiation reaches the surface temperature of the Sun-some 6000 degrees Celsius-we perceive it as white light. At still higher temperatures, 8500 degrees Celsius, the light will be blue. Beyond this, thermal radiation passes into the X-ray range. And so it goes, ad infinitum: the higher the temperature, the higher the frequency of thermal radiation.
~ Henning Genz
You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey
~ Henri Barbusse
When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!
~ Henri Rousseau
Mother, give me the sun.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Thor spake: "In a single breast I never have seen More wealth of wisdom old; But with treacherous wiles must I now betray thee: The day has cought thee dwarf! (Now the sun shines here in the hall.)
~ Henry Adams Bellows (trans.)
In a single breast I never have seen More wealth of wisdom old; But with treacherous wiles must I now betray thee: The day has cought thee dwarf! (Now the sun shines here in the hall.)
~ Henry Adams Bellows (trans.)
I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.
~ Henry Bellamann
We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been said, the adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on natures's sustaining and poetic spirit.
~ Henry Beston
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A photograph prints from the negative only while exposed to the sun. While the artist is looking to see how it is getting on he simply stops the getting on. Whatever of wise supervision the soul may need, it is certain it can never be over-exposed, or that, being exposed, anything else in the world can improve the result or quicken it.
~ Henry Drummond
And the sun sank again on the grand Australian bush - the nurse and tutor of eccentric minds, the home of the weird, and of much that is different from things in other lands.
~ Henry Lawson
Being in love with someone is like daytime. You know there are other stars our there someplace, but you can only see the sun.
~ Henry Melville
Dad," he said, "how far away is the sun?" "Five thousand miles," his father said.
~ Henry Slesar
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun.
~ Henry Van Dyke
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
~ Henry Ward Beecher