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The world goes up and the world goes down, and the sunshine follows the rain. And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
Charles Kingsley— Songs, II. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93-96.
Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.
conor oberst— No One Would Riot for Less
sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.
Jimmie Davis— Singer and songwriter of sacred and popular songs
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly — and worse — of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? "Tempest o'er tempest roll'd" — still the "darkness" is majestic.
john constable— Letter to C.R. Leslie (1834), John Constable's Correspondence, ed. R.B. Beckett, (Ipswich, Suffolk Records Society, 1962-1970), vol. 3, p. 122; also quoted in Hugh Honour, Romanticism (Westview Press, 1979, ISBN 0-064-30089-7), ch. 3, p. 91
Our predecessors, the Druids of Britain, tho' left in the extremest west to the improvement of their own thoughts, yet advanc'd their inquiries, under all disadvantages, to such heights, as should make our moderns asham'd, to wink in the sunshine of learning and religion.
william stukeley— Stonehenge: A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, Preface. (1740)
1927. I stood in front of your grave; in radiating sunshine there was a still, green mound. And it was preaching about mortality. My answer was: resurrection.
joseph goebbels— 1927. Ich stand an deinem Grab; im glastenden Sonnenschein lag ein stiller, grüner Hügel. Und predigte Vergänglichkeit.
Meine Antwort war: Auferstehung.
A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew, a cloud, and a rainbow's warning, suddenly sunshine and perfect blue, an April day in the morning.
— Harriet Prescott Spofford, April.
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott— As quoted in Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book (1923) by Elbert Hubbard, p. 62
As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,—Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Oliver Goldsmith— Line 189.
The vine . . . is not the root merely, but all - root, stem, branches, twigs, leaves, flowers, fruit: and Jesus is not only that: He is soil and sunshine, air and showers, and ten thousand times more than we ever dreamed, wished for, or needed.
james hudson taylor— Dwelling in Him
You are more beautiful than Cinderella! You smell like pine needles, and have a face like sunshine!
Becca— Bridesmaids (2011), played by Ellie Kemper.
Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay In the gay woods and in the golden air, Like to a good old age released from care, Journeying, in long serenity, away. In such a bright, late quiet, would that I Might wear out life like thee, mid bowers and brooks, And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks, And music of kind voices ever nigh; And when my last sand twinkled in the glass, Pass silently from men as thou dost pass.
william cullen bryant— William Cullen Bryant, October, line 5.
But what are kings, when regiment isgone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Christopher Marlowe— c.1591 Edward II (published1594), act 5, sc.1.
I send thee pansies while the year is young,Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sungBy all the chiefest of the Sons of Light.
sarah doudney— Poem: Pansies.
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.
ian fleming— Ch. 5 (Casino Royale (1953))
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— The House of the Seven Gables, Chapter I: "The Old Pyncheon Family" (1851)
As withered weed through cruell winters tine,That feeles the warmth of sunny beames reflection,Liftes up his head, that did before declineAnd gins to spread his leafe before the faire sunshine.
Edmund Spenser— Canto 12, stanza 34.
The world could change in a second,so I find the sunshine beckons me,to open up the gate and dream.
robbie williams— Lazy Days
When thou dost shine, darkness looks white and fair, Forms turn to musick, clouds to smiles and air; Rain gently spends his honey-drops, and pours Balm on the cleft earth, milk on grass and flowers. Bright pledge of peace and sun-shine! the sure tye Of thy Lord's hand, the object of his eye. When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distant, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from his glorious throne, And mindes the covenant 'twixt all and One.
Henry Vaughan— "The Rainbow"
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
james a. garfield— Letter to H. N. Eldridge (12 December 1869) as quoted in Garfield (1978) by Allen Peskin, Ch. 13
I look at the side of your face as the sunlight comes Streaming through the window in the autumn sunshine And all the time going to Coney Island I'm thinking, Wouldn't it be great if it was like this all the time.
van morrison— Coney Island
Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.
joaquin miller— For Princess Maud
Efforts to be permanently useful must be uniformly joyous, a spirit all sunshine, graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright.
— Thomas Carlyle, p. 48. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
You put the smile on my face like the sunshine.
Vinyl Pinups— "Gold Rays" (2016)
Under the snowdrifts the blossoms are sleeping, dreaming their dreams of sunshine and June. Down in the hush of their quiet they're keeping trills from the throstle's wild summer-sung tune.
— Harriet Prescott Spofford, Under the Snowdrifts.
I’m so glad my window looks east into the sun-rising. It’s so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It’s new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.
L. M. Montgomery— Said by Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables (1908, pg. 374).
Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
brian wilson— American musician, singer, songwriter; Co-founder of the Beach Boys
