The Sun Sayings and Quotes

Who doesn’t love sunshine? While we bask in its rays at the park or attend a barbecue, it’s easy to forget the sun is actually a giant, scorching hot star. Without it, earthlings would face eternal night and certain doom. Don’t take the warmth for granted and check out the collection of wise and insightful quotes about the sun below.

Some sunshine is good for the soul, but I always make sure I wear a big hat. Miranda Kerr
To the best of our knowledge, our Sun is the only star proven to grow vegetables. Philip Scherrer
Sunshine is my quest. Winston Churchill
Daylight follows a dark night. Proverb
Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it. Helena Rubinstein
Sunshine all the time makes a desert. Arab Proverb
Far away there 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 them. Louisa May Alcott
The sun is but a morning star. Henry David Thoreau
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. Christopher Columbus
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. Diogenes
The sun always shines above the clouds. Paul F. Davis
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. Ludwig Wittgenstein
The sun shines everywhere, not just at the beach. Brande Roderick
The sun shines on everybody. You've got to keep believing. Dontrelle Willis
My sun sets to rise again. Robert Browning
Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth. Nicolaus Copernicus
The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away. Conrad Hall
The sun will bring to light what lay under the snow. German Proverb
The sun has body, form, motion, radiance, heat, and procreative power, and these things flow from the sun without diminishing it. Leonardo da Vinci
The motion of the elements originates in the sun. Leonardo da Vinci
The eye and the rays of the sun and the mind are the fastest motion there is. Leonardo da Vinci
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, / The glorious Sun uprist. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, / But westward, look, the land is bright. Arthur Hugh Clough
Unless you watch it, you do not know when the sun goes down. It is like a candle extinguished without smoke. Henry David Thoreau
Falsehoods that glare and dazzle are sloped toward us, reflecting full in our faces, even the light of the sun. Wait till sunset, or go round them, and the falsity will be apparent. Henry David Thoreau
By my intimacy with nature, I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude. Henry David Thoreau
In about five billion years, the sun will exhaust its supply of hydrogen and evolve into a red giant, becoming hugely bigger than it is now. Alfred Hitchcock
And God made two great lights.; the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. The Bible (Genesis)
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, / Now the sun is laid to sleep, / Seated in thy silver chair, / State in wonted manner keep: / Hesperus entreats thy light, / Goddess, excellently bright. Ben Johnson
Busy old fool, unruly sun, / Why dost thou thus, / Through windows, and through curtains call on us? John Donne