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Quotes About Sunlight

Sunlight flooded through the tree house window. No time had passed in Frog Creek. The school bell was still ringing, announcing that class would start in ten
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Sunlight triggers a cutoff of melatonin, bringing on wakefulness. (Indoor light—particularly the light from tablets and smartphones—can also suppress melatonin, but nowhere near as dramatically as sunlight.) This is why night shift workers who drive home in the morning through sunlight and then struggle to fall asleep may find relief by buying amber-lensed Bono-style glasses that block the sun's blue light wavelengths. NSMRL
~ Mary Roach
Something was moving; there was a kind of breathing brightness in the air, the wind of God brushing by, invisible in sunlight.
~ Mary Stewart
A stream cut across the grass, and tree branches flowed low to the ground, like a curtain of green fluid. The sound of the water stressed the silence. The distant cut of open sky made the place seem more hidden. Far above, on the crest of a hill, one tree caught the first rays of sunlight.
~ Ayn Rand
The day was cold, the wind cutting, the sun a dim watermark on the gray sky.
~ Barack Obama
What you hold in your hands right now, beneath these words, is consecrated air and time and sunlight and, first of all, a place.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The morning sunlight lay in slivers on the bedroom floor, cut to ribbons by the bamboo blind.
~ Barbara Neely
the sunlight closed behind them like an unregainable door.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
What they say about sunlight is true. It is often the best disinfectant.
~ Steve Martini
But in both instances, the dissemination of the information diluted its power. As Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis once wrote, Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Se suele decir que la luz del sol es el mejor de los desinfectantes.»
~ Steven D. Levitt
In hermetic isolation, all kinds of bizarre and toxic ideas can fester. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and exposing a bad idea to the critical glare of other minds provides at least a chance that it will wither and die.
~ Steven Pinker
Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
She asks the dark to hide her That sunlight might not chide her As pride's pretentious daughter, And asks the dew to water Her lonely grave with tears
~ Jose Rizal
Alice was standing in the gloom, with just the toes of her pointy shoes poking out into the sunlight.
~ Joseph Delaney
Sunlight sliced through the half-bare branches and striped the forest floor like a tiger's pelt. Bluepaw smelled prey—not the dead smell of fresh-kill, but something far more enticing. She smelled mouse, sparrow, squirrel, and shrew, all with a tang of life that made her mouth water.
~ Erin Hunter
The clearing fell silent. Blood glistened on the grass as cold sunlight sliced through the trees. Cloudtail struggled to his paws and staggered over to stand beside Firestar, looking down at Scourge's lifeless black body.
~ Erin Hunter
Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream...
~ Ernest Dowson
Precocity is not the price of riding a bicycle, I think, so much as what it has to offer. Wind, a rush of blood, fissures and pits in the asphalt, an errant animal, eyes in a mirror, glint of sunlight on chrome, scent of lake water, catcalls, a soaring feeling. But that is not to say that liberation doesn't have a price.
~ Eula Biss
As the sunlight raced across the brilliant Savannah sky, the day unfolded like a beautiful yet painfully wrapped gift. Momma had left this world and set herself free, and in doing so, she had set me free too. As much as I missed her and wished I could hear her laughter one more time, I believed she was out there in the big bright somewhere, watching me, cheering for me. Loving me.
~ beth hoffman
blocking out the sunlight increases the ability of the lawyers to play with the shadows.
~ Bill James
The Ozmists around him went iridescent emerald, like light striking a thousand whirring beetles in flight, gold and emerald, emerald and gold, the colors of Lurlinemas, the colors of pine polen in champagne sunlight.
~ Gregory Maguire
Emma, who had taken his arm, bent lightly against his shoulder, and she looked at the sun's disc shedding afar through the mist his pale splendour.
~ Gustave Flaubert