The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots.… Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is given, as earth or air, sun or moon or stars, or the dreams of man.
—Cid Corman
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
—George Orwell
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
—John Muir
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
—Rita Rudner
The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.
—Dennis Banks
The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.
—Sitting Bull
Sunlight is painting.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.
—Walt Whitman
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
—Pablo Picasso
Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy. It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more energy than we could ever use in just about eight minutes. And it's wireless.
—William McDonough
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
—Anne Bronte
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
—Henry Ward Beecher
The day, water, sun, moon, night—I do not have to purchase these things with money.
—Plautus
Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
—Evita Peron
When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above.
—Lisa See in Shanghai Girls