Best sun & evening Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by.”

Littles Enjoy Hours Watches Sun Painting Draws Evening Desert

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.”

Wells Done Hours Sun Office Summer Red Train West Evening Twilight Summer Days

Author:Bear Bryant

“Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?...when you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the most ignorant of their fathers. So it is in regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain. It was made to give light to those who dwell upon it, and to other planets; and so will this earth when it is celestialized”

Thinking Giving Littles Made Light Earth Father Sun Planets Moon Regard Shining Ignorant Evening Vain Spheres

Author:Brigham Young

“As the evening mist worked its way into the scene, creating a warm filter through which the lowering sun bathed its light, it was all I could to to keep painting, and not just put my brushes down and soak it all in. Which, of course, I did for a while anyway.”

Way Light Courses Sun Painting Scene Creating Down And Warm Evening Brushes Mist Filters

Author:Cory Trepanier

“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.”

Book Running Night Felt Morning Sun Feet Cold Thousand Six Hundred Lays Miles Evening Hills Farms Early Morning Restful Equator

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.”

Two Soul Stars Peace Sun Virtue Evening

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.”

Loss Sun Sky Tears Evening Dew

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.”

People Ideas Care Moving Culture Stars Sun Sky Modern Television Moon Busy Ancient Evening No Idea Impress Too Busy Sun Moon Stonehenge

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.”

Night Left Sun Sky Streets Ready Window Evening Tea Seats Every Night Lamps Ladders Lanterns Tea Time

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.”

Long Made Seems Sun Fire Thousand Long Time Evening Caves Pillars Maritime

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.”

Young Sun Five Streets Crime Pure Ten Hundred Rose Vices Evening Rising Village Young Women Frost

Book:A Voice from the South

Source: A Voice from the South

“The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.”

Friendship Hours Morning Sun Shadow Increase Evening Wicked Early Morning

Author:Johann Gottfried Herder

“When we sit down to draw or paint the sun's rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you're left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.”

Littles Use Light Left Bits Morning Sun Little Bit Draws Red Blue Paint Evening Rays Yellow

Author:Bill Nye

“We have seen that the Son of God created the world for this very end, to communicate Himself in an image of His own excellency. ... When we behold the light and brightness of the sun, the golden edges of an evening cloud, or the beauteous (rain)bow, we behold the adumbrations of His glory and goodness; and in the blue sky, of his mildness and gentleness.”

World Ends Light Sun Sky Creation Son Goodness Glory Rain Blue Clouds Edges Communicate Golden Evening Bows Gentleness Brightness Blue Sky Mildness

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“Kissing was something I did a lot of. Kissing in a wheat field as the sun begins to set on a summer's evening, with the haze of that light.”

Light Sun Fields Kissing Summer Evening Wheat Haze Wheat Fields

Author:Beth Orton

“I hate to see the evening sun go down.”

Hate Sun I Hate Evening

Author:William Christopher Handy

“Even a simple imaginary exercise can change your mood: Close your eyes, and take yourself back to your last holiday where there was a lovely warm sun, beautiful sea, relaxed beach and fun meals in the evenings. Open your eyes and consider how you feel now.”

Feels Eye Lasts Beautiful Fun Simple Sun Sea Exercise Warm Mood Lovely Evening Beach Meals Holiday Imaginary Relaxed How You Feel

Book:Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

Source: Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

“What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning were named, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise, in Eden, Like a Husbandman?”

Men Firsts Found Stars Morning Sun Tree Moon Thirds Agree Statements Evening Idiot Paradise Eden Moon And Stars Sun Moon Sun Moon And Stars

Author:Origen

“Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.”

Soul Next Born Morning Sun Quitting Evening Spells Sunrise Encouraging Never Quit Sinking Born Again Giving Up Is Not An Option

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Every 12 years Jupiter returns to the same position in the sky; every 370 days it disappears in the fire of the Sun in the evening to the west, 30 days later it reappears in the morning to the east...[Observation in 4th century B.C.]”

Years Morning Sun Fire Sky Century Position Return West East Disappear Observation Evening Jupiter

Author:Gan De

“I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before I'm even remotely awake. But I love the golden hour in the evening, as hokey as that sounds. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.”

People Thinking Looks Sound Hours Sun Shadow Gold Wake Up Coffee Lovely Golden Evening Awake Yellow Pints Golden Hour

Author:Stacy London

“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.”

Morning Sun Kings Sitting Evening Thrones Noon Pageant Promenade

Book:Letters of Wallace Stevens

Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens

“A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

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