"Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion."
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"The wind and the sun are free."
"We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth's atmosphere. It's threatening to push the planet past a tipping point beyond which climate change would be difficult to stop"
"If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere."
"She wasn't just beautiful. She was like the sun coming up: coming up giggling. She was giggling as if she had just remembered something funny."
"Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath."
"There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory."
"When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules."
"The sun's not yellow, its chicken!"
"Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired."
"Empires and churches are born under the sun of death."
"How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?"
"Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds."
"This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun."
"To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise."
"The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic."
"I like to do outdoorsy things: hikes, trails, running, swimming. I love the sun. I'm all about the warmth."
"It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea."
"Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me."
"I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill"