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Quotes About Sun

The Heavenly City will vie with the moon and even the sun for beauty and splendour!
~ David Berg
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.
~ John D. Rockefeller
You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.
~ Rumi
Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.
~ Julio Cortazar
Stenditi al sole. Abdica, e sii il re di te stesso.
~ Unknown
Who can give more heat to the fire, or joy to heaven, or pain to hell? A ring upon a nun is like a ring in a sow's nose. Your best friend is still alive. Who is that? You. The sun is none the worse for shining on a dunghill. He must needs swim that is borne up to the chin. An hour's cold will suck out seven years of heat.
~ Peter Ackroyd
This, my children, Alistair said proudly, was barbecue pork. Dan rapped his fingers against the latch. Been out in the sun for a long time.
~ Peter Lerangis
The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.
~ Peter Matthiessen
If we do not require a calendar to be geared to a tropical year (earth's orbit), but only that it be geared to some part of the celestial clock, then the Maya calendar was more accurate than the Julian calendar, more accurate than the Babylonian (solar-lunar) calendar; it intermeshed the gear wheels of Sun, Moon and Venus, and was based on a more accurate gear ratio than the other calendars, repeating itself only once in 52 years.
~ Unknown
A gray-pink salmon leaping up the falls of night Into the spawning pool of another day. Dawn-the red roar of the heliac bull Charging over the horizon. The photonic blood of bleeding night, Stabbed by the assassin sun.
~ Philip José Farmer
The moon was climbing the sky, and the vast sweep of the milky way stretched above, every one of those minute specks a sun in its own system, lighting and warming planets, maybe, and life, maybe, and some kind of wondering being, maybe, looking out at the little star that was her sun, and at this world, and at Lyra.
~ Philip Pullman
Le soleil noir de la Mélancolie.
~ Philip Pullman
Look at that light up there: that's the sun of another world! Feel the warmth of it on your skin, now!
~ Philip Pullman
The sun, if your fluttering eye catches it even slightly, gives you the blue and red floaters a flashbulb gives you.
~ David Foster Wallace
You can buy gold that is bright as the sun and diamonds as pale as the moon. But you cannot buy the sun. You cannot own the moon." II
~ David Gemmell
Drawing his sword, he gazed down at the gleaming blade. 'I pledge you to the destruction of Sparta,' he whispered. Raising the weapon high he pointed it to the south-east and, though the city was far beyond his range of vision, he pictured the sword poised above it with the sun's harsh light turning it to fire.
~ David Gemmell
Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?
~ David James Duncan
60:19: "The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; but the LORD will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.
~ David Jeremiah
It's over when you decide it's over, she says. When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.
~ David Levithan
You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon.
~ David Levithan
Another thing I love about the beach is sitting in the sun, mainly for the lazy kind of talk it generates. A person can say anything with lotion on, and I'm more than willing to listen.
~ David Sedaris
As kids, we spent our beach time swimming. Then we became teenagers and devoted ourselves to tanning.
~ David Sedaris
Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.
~ Dean Koontz
To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing—I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.
~ Yann Martel