sunlight quotes

The Master: records prove the title good: Yet figures fail you, for they cannot say How many men whose names you never knew Are proud to tell their sons they saw you play. They share the sunlight of your summer day Of thirty years; and they, with you, recall How, through those well-wrought centuries, your hand Reshaped the history of bat and ball.

-Aristotle
  'To  John Berry Hobbs on his Seventieth Birthday'.

we flounder, the air ungainly in our new lungs with sunlight streaming merciless on the shores of morning

- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
  The Circle Game,'Pre- Amphibian'.

   The tall, impossibly tall, incomparably tall, city shoulderingly upwards into hard sunlight leaned a little through the octaves of its parallel edges, leaningly strode upwards into firm, hard, snowy sunlight; the noises of America nearingly throbbed with smokes and hurrying dots which are men and which are women and which are things new and curious and hard and strange and vibrant and immense, lifting with a great ondulous stride firmly into immortal sunlight†

- e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings cummings
  The Enormous Room, ch.13, closing words.

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair Lean on a garden urn Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Prufrock and Other Observations,'La Figlia Che Piange'.

The sunlight falls across the country, lighting up the greenstone years of a boy with his father.

-Witi Tame Ihimaera
  Tangi, ch.14.

Come, let us here enjoy the shade; For love in shadow best is made. Though envy oft his shadow be, None brooks the sunlight worse than he.

- Ben Jonson
The Underwood,'A Song' (published1640).

   Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

- Edward M(oore) Kennedy
  On sponsoring legislation for the disclosure of graduation rates and crime figures on campuses. In the NewYork Times, 8 Oct.

When you meet Mr. Smith first you think he looks like an over-dressed pirate. Then you begin to think him a character.You wonder at his enormous bulk. Then the utter hopelessness of knowing what Smith is thinking by merely looking at his features gets on your mind and makes the Mona Lisa seem an open book and the ordinary human countenance as superficial as a puddle in the sunlight.

- Stephen Butler Leacock
  Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town,'The Hostelry of Mr. Smith'.

The love of our neighbour is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks, and rubbing phosphorescence out of the walls, and blowing our own breath in our own nostrils, instead of issuing to the fair sunlight of God, the sweet winds of the universe.

- George MacDonald
  Unspoken Sermons.

   Tonight we sleep On the banks of Rubiconthe die is cast; There will be time to audit The accounts later, there will be sunlight later And the equation will come out at last.

- (Frederick) Louis MacNeice
  Autumn Journal, part 24.

Come to me in the silence of the night; Come in the speaking silence of a dream; Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright As sunlight on a stream; Come back in tears, O memory, hope, love of finished years.

- Christina Georgina Rossetti
  Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Echo'.