Light Quotes

I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water - fishermen, boatmen - and by a way of life that is dominated by water.

~ Berlie Doherty

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

~ Theodore Roethke

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

~ Frederick Douglass

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

~ Robert Delaunay

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

~ Nikola Tesla

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

~ Anne Brontë

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

~ William Wordsworth

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

~ John Burroughs

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

~ Edward Steichen

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.

~ William C. Bryant

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

~ Annie Leibovitz

In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.

~ I. M. Pei

When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.

~ Madeleine M. Kunin

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

~ Bryan Procter

No matter how much you've done before, you wonder if there will be a light at the end of this particular tunnel. It's the nature of the beast, and it's a part of what compels us. Every movie is a new lesson you learn making your way through it.

~ R. J. Cutler

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

~ George Crumb

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

~ Max Planck

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

~ Isaac Asimov

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.

~ Ernest Lawrence

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

~ Eric Kandel

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

~ Karl Kraus

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

~ Howard Nemerov

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

~ Anne Sullivan

I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

~ Pope Francis

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

~ Toru Takemitsu

Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.

~ Lynda Barry

My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

~ Anthony Browne

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

~ Albert Schweitzer

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

~ Helen Keller

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

~ Robert E. Lee

What is to give light must endure burning.

~ Anton Wildgans

My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war - civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.

~ Lynsey Addario

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

~ Germaine Greer

God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

~ Saint Ambrose

Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

~ Saint Bernard

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

~ John Forsythe