Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

Rene Descartes

Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates.

Thomas Moore

Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.

Thomas Paine

The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient religions of the Eastern world. Every thing told of Christ has reference to the sun. His reported resurrection is at sunrise, and that on the first day of the week; that is, on the day anciently dedicated to the sun, and from thence called Sunday.

Thomas Cole

The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth a crystal-like ether, in the other a liquid gold.

Thomas de Quincey

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Thomas de Quincey

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Timothy Egan

The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related—yet.

Tim LaHaye

After I'd preached a message on Sunday night, I'd print it up.

S. E. Hinton

I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.

S. E. Hinton

It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

S. E. Hinton

It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.

S. E. Hinton

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

Ronald Reagan

I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. . .. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

Romain Rolland

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

Saadi

All is going well so far. There are some remarks here and there and there are some complaints here and there but we expect to resolve those questions or complaints Sunday and the next day.

Rumi

There’s nothing left of me. I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise. Is it still a stone, or a world made of redness? It has no resistance to sunlight.

Rumi

When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon?

Susan Orlean

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

Stewart Udall

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!

Steve Jobs

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.

Samuel Johnson

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

Samuel Johnson

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Robert Hunter

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?

Rodney Dangerfield

I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push.

Roberto Bolano

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Robert Palmer

Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.

A compliment is verbal sunshine.

Steve Sabol

I don't go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL's Sunday Ticket. So I'll watch the games, take notes.

Viktor E. Frankl

Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.

Vachel Lindsay

The crooning turns to a sunrise singing.

Susan Wiggs

On Sunday, something washed up on shore.