T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds.”
“The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“The sun that gives shade to all has no shadow of its own”
“The sun that lights your world is different from mine, that's why we have different climates.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and
will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.”
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon
“The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning and raced across the blue dome and dipped into the sea of fire every evening.”
Source: The Gilded Six-Bits
“The sun, the moon, the ocean– these were all the children of Ouranos and Gaia. They had hundreds more, and they were the grandparents of the gods and of human beings. Ouranos didn’t make any of this out of nothing, and neither did God. There had to be a wife.”
Source: Cut
“The Sun, the Stars, the Seas with all other things were made by the Divine Being, God.”
“The sun, through the filter of the trees, glints green off the cells of her suit, outlines her soft curves. I’m overcome with visions of my father poring over his books, and the wet, verdant forest floor, and newts pausing over toxic yellow candy, and leaves flying up from the impact of Bryan’s body hitting the ground. Another, confused part of me hears my father’s voice calling the refs scum, trash, slime. With flashes of fury at Marisa, mixed with a sad, all-consuming longing that feels dangerously like love, I pluck her hands from my face and push her away. -from Fireseed One”
“The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.”
“The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.”
“The sun tried to shine through the clouds but its light was dimmed even in us; high noon approached. I looked outside through the tinted windows at the people promenading down Madison. Couples held hands, bankers squeezed through crowds of window shoppers late for their daily thieving but all of them, even the poor, seemed content with existence, some even seemed happy. Nearly everyone’s outer shell was delicate and gracious that at the end of it all, on the border of nonexistence, each and everyone was happy to be alive. Everyone carried their heads with a radiance past the space they occupied and glided through time like flamenco dancers in a studio as big as the planet. Everyone wore masks that hid their sorrow (either that or they were sincerely happy) or wore armor that lightened the burden on their shoulders. Worst of all, I could not detect ever a flicker of thought; brains mired behind viral images and videos of people making even greater fools of themselves than they already were. And as the greatest fool of them all, I walked among them, never having learned to don the mask of happiness.”
Source: How Dim the Promised Land
“The sun truly "comes up like thunder," and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds. But in that time you see at least eight different bands of color come and go, from a brilliant red to the brightest and deepest blue. And you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. No sunrise or sunset is ever the same.”
“The sun turns the ice scarlet and gold as we begin making our way up the side of a mountain. It's a craggy climb.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive.
Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively. Conclude quickly. Don't Fight!”
“The Sun Tzu School (which wrote the Art of War) surely never imagined that their antiwar, pro-empire treatise would become known and accepted after the fall of the first empire as a text on military tactics. Likewise, they would have been surprised to see the Ping-fa military metaphor—an inspired teaching device—come to be seen as the message and not the medium.”
“The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.”
“the sun walks out
as the moon walks in.
and the sky,
the sky embraces
both.
so i’ll embrace,
embrace all sides of me.
- the love of the sky.”
“The sun warms our hearts while beautifying our Soul. Open skies are open arms when we surrender to its embrace. Open mind, Soul embrace.”
Source: Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul
“The sun was a fiery furnace of gold, but finally it set in the west and the cosmos glittered like a million burning embers, briefly reminding Awa of poetry readings under starry skies in Timbuktu”
Source: A Tudor Turk
“The sun was a juicy pink as it sank toward the water. Rex played "As Time Goes By." The foie gras was good enough to shift Adrienne's mood from despondent to merely poor. It was deliciously fatty, a heavenly richness balanced by the sweet roasted figs. Who wanted to be married and have children when she could be eating foie gras like this with a front-row seat for the sunset? Adrienne forgot her manners. She devoured her appetizer in five lusty bites, and then she helped herself to more caviar. She was starving.”
Source: The Blue Bistro
“The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.”
Source: It
“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“The sun was a warrior whom I gladly contested and whom I overthrew. Dazzling and magnificent was the sun's army on my back and joyous were the blades of sweat that came from my pores and vanquished him.”
“The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.”
Source: A Passage to India
“The sun was as flirty as Scarlett O'Hara with the Tarleton twins, breaking through the clouds in spectacular bursts that seemed like personal favors and then retreating for hours, days, and making us all ache for just a glimpse.”
Source: Welcome to the Great Mysterious
“The sun was bobbing on the horizon, just peeking over. Its light shimmered on the sand behind you, making your body look like it was glowing … like it had a kind of aura.”
Source: Stolen
“The sun was deaf'nin' so high up, yay, it roared an' time streamed from it.”
Source: Cloud Atlas
“The sun was directly overhead, bright against the flower’s exterior. Warm blueish-purple silhouettes pirouetted and danced along interior walls.”
Source: A Gathering of Dreams
“The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.”
Source: Poems
“The sun was faithful again that morning, rising above the farm with a shine so fresh it tasted like gazpacho.”
Source: Straw House
“The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“The sun was getting up, and mortal white he looked about the cutwater. But, there he was, and the six all dead - dead and buried.”
“The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.”
Source: Bless Me, Ultima: A Novel
“The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves.”
Source: The Extinction of Irena Rey
“The sun was hot and bright. A day for fishing, for swimming, for playing tennis and having fun, and they put my Christopher in the ground.”
Source: Seeds of yesterday
“The sun was hot on my skin, too bright as it bounced off the white concrete and blinded me. I felt dangerously exposed. More fiercely than I would have dreamed I was capable of, I wished for the green, protective forest of Forks . . . of home.”
“The sun was hot that yellow morning, and it drew the moisture from the estuary and from the Gulf and hung it in shimmering scarves in the air so that the air vibrated and vision was insubstantial.”
Source: The Pearl
“The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.”
“The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.”
Source: One of Ours
“The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper," and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.”
“The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.”
“The sun was out, but it had recently rained, and clusters of black and red and blue butterflies hovered over the puddles. Occasionally, a truck rumbled by, loaded down with logs. The butterflies couldn't scatter fast enough, so the road was littered with severed wings”
Source: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
“The sun was pouring in, creeping in stealthily lengthening squares across his desk and the litter of papers that strewed it ...”
Source: I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories
“The sun was rising, a Flemish sun, a crafty and indeterminate sort of sun, which allows you to look it right in the face and gives you reason both to hope and to despair.”
Source: Maeterlinck'S Dogs [Hardcover] 1919 [Hardcover]
“The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.”
“The sun was setting on the horizon. Mother Nature had painted the sky in hues of pink, purple and orange. Our feet slipped and slid as we walked on the sand, breathing salt air. Waves crashed against the shore rhythmically and gusts of wind howled around us. Families could be seen strolling along the beach despite the frigid winter wind that was blowing. In the distance, a group of orphaned children could be seen flying a kite, unaware of the cruelty that exists in the world.”
Source: Train to Mumbai
“The sun was shining brightly on the day that I died.
It blazed from the heavens. It sang from the skies.
On a day the world seemed born again, the HMS Nightingale met her end. She took us with her, every one of us: the Old Man, me, the Doc, the Chief, the babyfaced killer in A-Turret, the fat man from Swansea, all the rest.
She took us to the bottom. Saved our souls.”
Source: War Stories, Volume 1
“The sun was shining like a congratulation.”
Source: Experiment in Springtime