"Just living is not enough, one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." - The Complete Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen
"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, Drink the wild air's salubrity:" - "Merlin's Song" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside." - Betsy-Tacy and Tib - Maud Hart Lovelace
"Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried." - Richard III - William Shakespeare
"From the sun that 'round me roll'd In its autumn tint of gold."- "Alone" - Edgar Allan Poe
"The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture." - It - Stephen King
"Something always told me I wasn't no rich white woman." - A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." - The Art of War - Sun Tzu
"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." - The Art of War - Sun Tzu
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." - The Art of War - Sun Tzu
"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle." - The Art of War - Sun Tzu
"When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard." - The Art of War - Sun Tzu
"Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley." - The Art of War - Sun Tzu
"Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat." - Laura Ingalls Wilder
"As the sun nears the horizon, its benevolent yellow begins to deepen, to become infected, until it glares an angry inflamed orange. It throws a variegated glow over the horizon." - Salem's Lot - Stephen King
"Make hay while the sun shines." - Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
"The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompence." - Poor Richard's Almanac - Benjamin Franklin
"Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul." - Paradise Lost - John Milton
"A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer." - The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
"The sun is but a morning star." - Walden - Henry David Thoreau
"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night." - Steve Martin
"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!" - The Mountains of California - John Muir
"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls." - A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Here are some additional sun quote resources:
- Reader's Digest: 12 Cheery Quotes about Sunshine
- Bartleby Sun Quotes
- AZ Quotes: Sun Quotes
- Sun Science Quotes