Sunlight Quotes

• My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Sunlight
  • My Place

• I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Sunlight

• I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Morning
  • Lust
  • Ghost

• The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.

  

  Wes Jackson
  • Running
  • Materials
  • Contemporary

• No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Failure
  • Gratitude
  • Sunlight

• You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Drunk
  • Explain
  • Minerals

• This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.

  

  Rumi
  • Love
  • Die
  • Sunlight

• Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Poverty
  • My Family
  • Lacked

• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Water
  • Wine
  • Sunlight

• A good day wasn’t a day without clouds but rather a day when one focused on finding the sunlight behind the clouds.

  

  Ben Mikaelsen
  • Clouds
  • Focused
  • Sunlight

• But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.

  

  Wang Anyi
  • Minutes
  • Particles
  • Daybreak

• But down from the end of the path it looked so charming that she wished she could paint it in watercolours—the great trees, the tempered sunlight, the glimpse of the old church at one end, the glimpse of the embosomed lake at the other, and in the middle, set out so neatly, with such a grace of spotlessness, the table of her first tea-party.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Church
  • Grace
  • Charming

• He had the effect on her of a window being thrown open and fresh air and sunlight being let in.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Sunlight
  • Fresh Air

• Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again

  

  Elyne Mitchell
  • Together
  • Song
  • Spring

• When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

  

  Steve Kazee
  • Darkness
  • Sunlight
  • Hiding

• Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Plant
  • Draws
  • Surround

• In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • People
  • Age
  • Absence

• When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Peace
  • Passion
  • Wisdom

• The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Sunlight
  • Pillow
  • Smells

• We watch a sunlight dust dance, and we try to be that lively, but nobody knows what music those particles hear. Each of us has a secret companion musician to dance to. Unique rhythmic play, a motion in the street we alone know and hear.

  

  Rumi
  • Dance
  • Try
  • To Be

• Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

  

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White
  • Moving
  • Leadership
  • Perspective

• In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • New York
  • Sunlight
  • Everdevelopment

• Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Violence
  • Air
  • Generations

• Some memories are made up of sunlight, they shine until they lose their glow. Yeah, but you were made of first times, the good kind with the goodbye that still won’t let me go. No, it still won’t let me go…

  

  Carly Pearce
  • Memories
  • Do Not
  • Let

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