Sun

The sun is up, the sky is blue. It’s beautiful, and so are you. Enjoy this collection of quotes and proverbs about the sun.

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"Just living is not enough" said the butterfly fairy, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
Hans Christian Andersen

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne Brontë

A ring around the sun or moon, means that rain will come real soon.

A small cloud may hide both sun and moon.

As long as the sun shines one does not ask for the moon.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
John Muir

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
Charlotte Brontë
Source: Jane Eyre

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir

I think the future for solar energy is bright.
Ken Salazar

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Rabindranath Tagore

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
Gautama Buddha

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.
Do not stay angry too long.

Make hay while the sun shines.

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
Quoted: Gandalf
Talking to the Eagles

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday, especially if it was one's own, brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
Thomas Moore

No matter how tall the mountain, it cannot block out the sun.

Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.
Edgar Cayce

Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the keyhole.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 3 - A Short Rest
Moonletters on the map.

The ant crept forth to her daily toil, the butterfly fluttered and basked in the warm rays of the sun; myriads of insects spread their transparent wings, and revelled in their brief but happy existence. Man walked forth, elated with the scene; and all was brightness and splendour.
Charles Dickens
Source: The Pickwick Papers

The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.

The lord of the eagles of the Misty Mountains had eyes that could look at the sun unblinking, and could see a rabbit moving on the ground a mile below even in the moonlight.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 6 - Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire
About the eagles.

The moon grows darker as it gets nearer to the sun.

The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
Ram Charan

The sun always shines above the clouds.
Paul F. Davis

The sun has left the sky, old man
The birds have flown away
And no one came to cry, old man
Goodbye, old man, goodbye
Randy Newman
Source: Song lyrics: Old Man

The sun is up, the sky is blue.
It's beautiful, and so are you
John Lennon

The sun never saw any shadow.
Leonardo da Vinci

The sun was shining brilliantly, and it was a long while before he could bear it. When he could, he saw all round him a sea of dark green, ruffled here and there by the breeze; and there were everywhere hundreds of butterflies.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
Bilbo on top of a tree.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei

Then Thorin stepped up and drew the key on its chain from round his neck. He put it to the hole. It fitted and it turned! Snap! The gleam went out, the sun sank, the moon was gone, and evening sprang into the sky.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 11 - On the Doorstep
On Durin's Day.

Three things cannot long stay hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.
Gautama Buddha

Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Be optimistic. Think positively.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
John Lennon

You can't see the sun when you're crying.

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
Keith Richards




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