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Quotes About Sunshine

The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost he cannot restore, And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
w]e are optimists when the sun shines
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
How not to miss those days when the sun was a happy companion that stayed to play all year round and kissed me a careless nut brown? When Mother caught the sweet rain in her well behind the house, and the air was so clear that the grass smelled green?
~ Rani Manicka
Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.
~ Ray Bradbury
I've seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire; but, by all the stars! these were strong, lusty, red-eyed devils, that swayed and drove men—men, I tell you. But as I stood on this hillside, I foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly. How insidious he could be, too, I was only to find out several months later and a thousand miles farther.
~ Joseph Conrad
But as I stood on this hillside, I foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.
~ Joseph Conrad
I seemed at one bound to have been transported into some lightless region of subtle horrors, where pure, uncomplicated savagery was a posi-tive relief, being something that had a right to exist—obviously—in the sunshine.
~ Joseph Conrad
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
~ Walt Whitman
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
~ Walt Whitman
The viewless air seemed to be flocking with hidden listeners. The very clearness and the crystal silence were their ambush. He alone seemed to be the target of cold and hostile scrutiny. There was not a breath to breathe in this crisp, pale sunshine. It was all too rare, too thin. The shadows lay like wings everlastingly folded.
~ Walter de La Mare
somehow or other, there is a genial sunshine about you that warms every creeping thing into heart and confidence. Your
~ Washington Irving
Always keep your eyes open. Don't block your own sunshine. Be filled with wonder.
~ Wendy Mass
Bad weather is associated with improved memory; judicial sentences tend to be more severe when it is hot outside; and stock market performance is affected by sunshine.
~ Daniel Kahneman
the golden hour--that hour of sunshine where the world looks the way it looks in your dreams.
~ Danny Wallace
À Tokyo, où je n'ai jamais mis les pieds, on conserve paraît-il le temps dans de jolies petites boîtes laquées. Si tu veux trois jours, on peut te les vendre. Contre de l'argent ? Non, on n'achète du temps qu'avec du temps. On peut te vendre trois jours gris contre deux jours ensoleillés et une nuit triste. Ou simplement une heure contre un baiser frais. Je voudrais acheter du temps japonais avec des mimosas ruisselants de pluie.
~ Dany Laferrière
Her father did look tired, almost as if he were sitting in shadow when everyone around him was in sunshine.
~ Dave Duncan
Minho snickered and leaned back in his chair. "Man, you are one butt-load of sunshine, let me tell you.
~ James Dashner
At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the high tops.
~ James Herriot
And so the amber hair of Francis Crawford's father, which all his life had marked him out: for hurt, for passion; for treachery; performed its last destined office in the sunshine and fresh winds of England that morning. A single rider, a sober doublet and cloak might have escaped notice. But not the bare, golden head.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The sun is shining, and I am in the mood to make mistakes through over-confidence.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
There, eastward, within a stone's throw, stood the twin towers of All Souls', fantastic, unreal as a house of cards, clear-cut in the sunshine, the drenched oval in the quad beneath brilliant as an emerald in the bezel of a ring. Behind them, black and grey, New College frowning like a fortress, with dark wings wheeling about her
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I'm all for scattering sunshine as we pass. As Stevenson says, we shall pass this way but once--and I devoutly hope he's right.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I had a lovely childhood in Ireland, riding, hunting, and a great big, bare, draughty house with lots and lots of sun in it. If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you, can they? It was afterwards—when I grew up—that things seemed always to go wrong.
~ Agatha Christie
What an awful place to live in England is,... If it isn't snowing or raining or blowing it's misty. And if the sun does shine it's so cold that you can't feel your fingers or toes.
~ Agatha Christie