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Quotes About Sunlight

Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize.
~ Gene Wolfe
The gem, which he had supposed colorless, caught a ray of sunlight from the god-gate in the roof and flashed a watery green. For some reason, it reminded him of her eyes. He put it to his lips, his thoughts full of things that could never be.
~ Gene Wolfe
She sighed, and all the gladness went out of her face, as the sunlight leaves the stone where a beggar seeks to warm himself.
~ Gene Wolfe
In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight.
~ George Eliot
With his taper stuck before him he forgot the absence of windows, and in bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about the solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight.
~ George Eliot
These things have not changed. The sunlight and shadows bring their old beauty and waken the old heart-strains at morning, noon, and eventide; the little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty; and men still yearn for the reign of peace and righteousness
~ George Eliot
A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
~ C. V. Raman
We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.
~ Roy Rogers
If you don't expose something to sunlight, microbes and germs will thrive.
~ Grace Poe
Cats thrive when they can walk around and sleep in a patch of sunlight.
~ Beth Ostrosky Stern
All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.
~ Derek Walcott
Sunlight comes into your house not because you want it. It happens because you open the windows." Sadhguru:
~ Sadhguru
Laurie pressa le bouton de sonnette et attendit. Un chat, allongé au soleil, se leva en s'étirant et s'approcha à pas délicats pour inspecter la visiteuse. Sa fourrure ambrée resplendissait dans la lumière vive. – Bonjour, chat ! Parles-tu anglais ? murmura Laurie en le caressant. Le chat ronronna et se frotta contre sa jambe. C'était sans aucun doute un chat polyglotte.
~ Sally Wentworth
Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
not one girl I think who looks on the light of the sun will ever have wisdom like this
~ Sappho
My delight is the exquisite. Yes, for me, Glitter and sunlight and love Are one society. So I shall not go creeping away To die in the dark: I shall go on living with you, Loving and loved.
~ Sappho
I cannot imagine in the future any girl who looks on the light of the sun who will have your skill and wisdom.
~ Sappho
A vision of the little house in Soho flickered across his mind's eye, his mother at a desk, writing in her journal, with hazy sunlight streaming through the morning windows. The woman inhabited a world he had once thought his own – a world of publishers and reliable suppliers. A London that was confident and competent amid its grey, puddle-strewn streets.
~ Sara Sheridan
We are two eagles Flying together Under the heavens, Over the mountains, Stretched on the wind. Sunlight heartens us, Blind snow baffles us, Clouds wheel after us Ravelled and thinned. We are like eagles But when Death harries us, Human and humbled When one of us goes, Let the other follow, Let the flight be ended, Let the fire blacken, Let the book close.
~ Sara Teasdale
The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold
~ Louis MacNeice
I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o'clock in the morning.
~ Kate Moss
We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.
~ Helen Fisher
Je me souviens mal des jours. L'éclairement solaire ternissait les couleurs, écrasait. Des nuits, je me souviens.Le bleu était plus loin que le ciel, il était derrière toutes les épaisseurs, il recouvrait le fond du monde. Le ciel, pour moi, c'était cette traînée de pure brillance qui traverse le bleu, cette fusion froide au-delà de toute couleur.
~ Marguerite Duras
There was something that charmed her in the fact that her brother, the one true worldling in the whole tribe of Boughtons, seemed to be asking her for advice, or for wisdom, standing there in the sunlight with the wind hushing in the dusty lilacs of their childhood and laundry swaying on the lines where their school clothes used to hang.
~ Marilynne Robinson