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Quotes About Light

I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud of that and touching and inspiring people.
~ David Cassidy
The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.
~ Brian Greene
For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.
~ Edward Carpenter
All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.
~ Jeff Buckley
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.
~ Vitruvius
Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can claim no such devoted fan base.
~ Brendan I. Koerner
Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.
~ Eugene Kennedy
Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.
~ Wallace Stevens
Birth our night into dayAnd bathe it clean, So that beloved things can glowTogether in a litter of light.
~ Scott Hastie
Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.
~ John Stott
The classic Soul Travel experience is leaving the human body in full awareness and having the Light and Sound of God flow directly into the Soul body.
~ Harold Klemp
What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'
~ Robert Creeley
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.
~ George Will
Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith
~ Terry Eagleton
In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does not travel fast enough to catch the Italian drivers.
~ Dave Barry
In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.
~ Thomas Paine
How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
~ Brad Warner
As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.
~ Emily Carr
This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.
~ Sylvia Plath
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
~ Simone Weil
Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.
~ Dorothy Wordsworth
The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.
~ Bob Dylan