Sunlight Quotes

In hermetic isolation, all kinds of bizarre and toxic ideas can fester. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and exposing a bad idea to the critical glare of other minds provides at least a chance that it will wither and die.

~ Steven Pinker

He returned her love. He lusted after her sweet young body. He wanted her the way he wanted to breathe the spring air. He had never loved anyone before. He had not known even what this feeling for his tiny slave was. Now in the crisp, clear spring sunlight, he knew.

~ Andrew M. Greeley

What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

~ Kahlil Gibran

I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena occur. We live for example on the surface of a planet. It is at a surface where the catalysis of chemical reactions occur. It is essentially at a surface of a plant that sunlight is converted to a sugar. In electronics, most if not all active circuit elements involve non-equilibrium phenomena occurring at surfaces. Much of biology is concerned with reactions at a surface.

~ Walter Houser Brattain

Moonlight is sculpture, sunlight is painting.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

...I prefer rain -sometimes I feel sunlight will turn me to stone - perhaps I'm a Troll...

~ John Geddes

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

~ Nora Roberts

I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.

~ George R.r. Martin

There is a particular kind of afternoon sun that exists only in autumn. A golden light drapes itself over the world of that hour. It falls through the afternoon sky, fine and faint as a swirl of cigarette smoke caught in the wind, nearly transparent. So sweet, that light, insisting softly, goldly against the windows.

~ Ayana Mathis

Winter teetered on the verge of succumbing to the returning sun, but today the breeze still preferred the touch of snowflakes

~ Rue

Be healthy by being outdoors in the natural daylight with nature!

~ Steven Magee

Life is a summer, full of fun, at the beach, under the sun.

~ Debasish Mridha

She turned to the sunlight    And shook her yellow head,And whispered to her neighbor:    Winter is dead.

~ A.a. Milne

At my place I can really tell when winter has come.. It's when sunlight is pathetically crawling in my courtyard, incapable of reaching my window anymore.

~ Boulet

Lancelot and Guinevere – they looked like two flowers, bright enough to turn to each other for sunlight.

~ Clara Winter

Outside, he had a sudden feeling that at moments there was too much light for human eyes. It caused men to feel weak and befuddled.

~ Warren Eyster

It was the day he learned that smart, witty girls were brighter than sunlight.

~ Olivia Fuller

I have sometimes thought that the reason the trees are so quiet in the summer is that they are in a sort of ecstasy; it is in winter, when the biologists tell us they sleep, that they are most awake, because the sun is gone and they are addicts without their drug, sleeping restlessly and often waking, walking the dark corridors of forests searching for the sun.

~ Gene Wolfe

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.

~ Wilkie Collins

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

~ Diane Ackerman

Sunlight is painting.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

~ Rita Rudner

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

~ Edward Hopper

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

~ Mike Quigley