quotations about the sun
The fabled wonders of Aladdin's lamp are as nothing when compared with the real wonders of the great lamp of nature, the all-beholding sun.
ALBERT TAYLOR BLEDSOE
"The Sun of Righteousness: A Sermon", The Southern Review, January 1876
The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT
The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories
With summer in session, the sun is like Mother Nature's double-edged sword -- at the same time we are blessed with sunshine, we are also plagued with sun damage.
KELSEY NGUYEN
"Does Sun Damage You Hair? It's Important To Protect Yourself From Head To Toe", Bustle, June 8, 2016
For me my sun is, like all images, a functional object for seeing, for feeling, for dreaming, for understanding.
MICHAEL BUTHE
"Haus der Kunst", e-flux, July 6, 2016
The sun which dazzles us with its splendor, is itself often obscured by a cloud.
AUGUST FRIEDRICH FERDINAND KOTZEBUE
attributed, Day's Collacon
The sun, centre and sire of light,
The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
One sun warms and enlightens the world, two suns would destroy it.
AS-SUHRAWARDI
attributed, Day's Collacon
The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us.
ALEXANDRA ELLE
"Journey Wisely", Love in My Language
The great luminary
Aloof the vulgar constellations thick,
That from his lordly eye keep distance due,
Dispenses light from far.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Through the darkness and the light
Some sun has got to rise
YEAH YEAH YEAHS
"Despair"
Up in the mornin', out on the job
Work like the devil for my pay
But that lucky old sun has nothin' to do
But roll around Heaven all day
RAY CHARLES
"Lucky Old Sun"
The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
The Great Gatsby
See the sun!
God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
My love for you would blot out the sun like a cloud made out of yogurt. I hope you brought a spoon.
JAROD KINTZ
The Titanic Would Never Have Sunk If It Were Made Out Of a Sink
Make hay while the sun shines.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
See the gold sunshine patching,
And streaming and streaking across
The gray-green oaks; and catching,
By its soft brown beard, the moss.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
The sun is very much like a musical instrument except that its typical notes are at a very low frequency--some 100,000 times lower than middle C.
YVONNE ELSWORTH
"Solar Minimum: The Sun Is Getting Quieter And Is Displaying Some Very Weird Behavior", Newsweek, July 3, 2017
Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
Speak
High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.
WILLIAM FALCONER
The Shipwreck
The earth at early dawn seems a dreary waste, an undistinguishable chaos, till the glowing sunrise unbars the gates of light, and lets forth the morn.
J. C. ADAMS
attributed, Day's Collacon