J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is."
Sun quotes
Sun
948 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done"
Jean Paul
Writer
"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows."
Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"Every light is not the sun."
Khaled Hosseini
Author, Physician
"Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun."
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"Behind the clouds is the sun still shining."
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"Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God."
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"L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)"
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"Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces."
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"Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first and last, maker and owner of the universe."
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"How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun."
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"God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else."
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"In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine."
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"You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life."
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"Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits."
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"The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again."
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"To say that God turns away from the sinful is like saying that the sun hides from the blind."
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"Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth."
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"Above all shadows rides the sun."
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"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."
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"How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!"
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"The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them."
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"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere."
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"Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty."
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"Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children."
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