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“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.”

“I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.”

Years Cities Sun Team Enterprise Editors Reporters Rebecca

Author:David Simon

“The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.”

Years Fall Sun Color Comfortable Skins My Favorite Warmth Breeze Coolness

Author:Ricky Skaggs

“About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.”

Years States Use Found United United States Sun Years Ago Chains Pot Clothings Dozen Declaration Items Shields Bicycle Cleaners Rags Headbands

Author:Colum McCann

“Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.”

Years Doe Suffering Grows Sun Lifetime Setting Settings Rising

Author:Augusta Jane Evans

“May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin.”

Source: Peter Loewer's Month by Month Garden Almanac for Indoor & Outdoor Gardening

“These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.”

Men Years Heart Stills Hands Light Eye Heaven Stars Views Sun Clear Seeing Bears Moon Sight Arguing Spots Idle Blindness Steers Bereft Orbs These Eyes

Book:I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.

Source: I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.

“Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart pulsing like ours. He was poured from the same first fountain. And whether he at last goes to our stingy Heaven or not, he has terrestrial immortality. His life, not long, not short, knows no beginning , no ending. To him life unstinted, unplanned, is above the accidents of time, and his years, markless and boundless, equal eternity.”

Knows Years Firsts Heart Long Made Lasts Turns Heaven Water Sun Sky Adventure Wind Bears Drink Equal Eternity Blue Breathe Accidents Dust Immortality Fountain Dwelling Boundless Blue Sky Stingy

Author:John Muir

“As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved - So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The Circumvention of the Shaft Of Life's Declivity.”

Years Turns Sun Summer Lovely Shy Autumn Slips September Attempting Affront

Book:The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

“There is a Zone whose even Years No Solstice interrupt - Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon Whose perfect Seasons wait - Whose Summer set in Summer, till The Centuries of June And Centuries of August cease And Consciousness - is Noon.”

Years Waiting Perfect Consciousness Sun Century Summer Seasons Cease Zone Perpetual Constructs June August Noon Solstice

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not - and now we are having to pay for 'em, and we are howling like a pet coon.”

Years Business Pay Situation Sun Economic Needed Six Credit Buying Pet Ems Print

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

“The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. Crop after crop failed. Again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year's seed. The agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. Then the bank failed.”

Years Next Interest Pay Sun Sky Land Wind Taxes Summer Credit Seeds Dust Yellow Agony Again And Again Harvest Crops Bankers Next Year No Money Barren Prairie Scorching

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you.”

Ifs Men Years Has Beens America Known Accepting Sun Angry Historical Corruption Setting Settings Empires Republic Falsehood Publish Nothing New

Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

“Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Stills Earth Faces Water Common Sun Mystery Tree Green Shining Fingers Depth Lakes Quarters Mud Limbs Skeletons Muddy Sun Shines Slime Cypresses Cypress Trees

Author:Irvin S. Cobb

“When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.”

Years Sun Thousand Moon Twenties Threat Seven Accomplished Cycles Thousand Years Prophecy Exhausted Reign

Book:The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus

Source: The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus

“Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.”

Years Wells Made Ideas Sun Comedy My Friends Years Ago Twenties Fake Empires Going Away Camps Vietnam Boots Auditions Boot Camp Empire Of The Sun

Author:Ben Stiller

“The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.”

“Take rainwater kept for several years, and mix a sextarius of this water with a pound of honey The whole is exposed to the sun for 40 days, and then left on a shelf near the fire. If you have no rain water, then boil spring water.”

Ifs Years Whole Left Water Sun Fire Spring Rain Pounds Honey Exposed Shelves Rain Water Spring Water Rainwater

Author:Columella

“This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.”

Ifs World Years Littles Has Beens Grows Nature Simple Sun This World Thousand Spring Rain Green Thousand Years

Book:Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

Source: Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

“You are immortal; you exist for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself.”

Life Years Different Dies Waiting Sun Air Tree Moon Fishes Billions Manifestation Immortal Butterfly

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl without a school, without the fun and excitement of school. A child without games, without friends, without the sun, without birds, without nature, without fruit, without chocolate or sweets, with just a little powdered milk. In short, a child without a childhood.”

Source: Le journal de Zlata

“I'm lucky in that I travel a lot for work. I also manage several holidays a year. I'm not someone who sits in the sun or goes sightseeing, though. If I go away, it will be for fishing or something like that.”

Ifs Years Sun Lucky Manage Holiday Fishing Going Away Sightseeing

Author:Vinnie Jones

“When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.”

Men Years Firsts Light Sun Creation Circles Creation Of Man

Book:The Divine Sayings of Elijah Muhammad Volumes 1, 2 and 3

Source: The Divine Sayings of Elijah Muhammad Volumes 1, 2 and 3

“There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, “Nothing, I just helped him cry.²” “Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth “You owe me” Look what happens with a love like that, It lights the whole sky..””

“The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.”

Ifs Way Years Humans May Earth Lasts Universe Sun Minutes Locals Seconds Cosmic September June July August December January Calendars Last Minute Milky Way Local History January 1st

Author:Carl Sagan

“Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous

“Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.”

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.”

“I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.”

Years Reality Mother Sun Moon Aging Endure Fifty Heroic Realism Disillusionment

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.”

Years Earth Sun Return Dare Passing Passings Venture Comets Retrograde

Book:Miscellanea Curiosa: Being a Collection of Some of the Principal Phaenomena in Nature, Accounted for by the Greatest Philosophers of this Age : Together with Several Discourses Read Before the Royal Society, for the Advancement of Physical and Mathematical Knowledge

Source: Miscellanea Curiosa: Being a Collection of Some of the Principal Phaenomena in Nature, Accounted for by the Greatest Philosophers of this Age : Together with Several Discourses Read Before the Royal Society, for the Advancement of Physical and Mathematical Knowledge

“Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed.”

Love Years Heart Running Young Courses Love Is Sun Shining Obstacles Bars Smooth Prosperous Sun Shines

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, six billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.”

Years Humans Different Watches Sun Creatures Six Billions Demise Bacteria Culmination

Author:Martin Rees

“The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.”

Years Mind Littles Long Life Is Joy Sun Our Lives Progress Sorrow Intellectual Notes Dues Dawn Risen Heed Infancy Boyhood Joys And Sorrows

Author:Bryan Procter

“We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.”

Source: The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.”

Years Ends Pay Sun Taken Terrible Walking Thousand Intensity Apathy Away From You Hallways Tedium

Author:George Jung

“Or ever the knightly years were gone, with the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon and you were a Christian Slave. I saw, I took, I cast you by, I bent and broke your pride... And a myriad suns have set and shone, since then upon the grave, Decreed by the King in Babylon, to her that had been his slave. The pride I trampled is now my scathe, for it tramples me again. The old remnant lasts like death for you love, yet you refrain. I break my heart on your hard unfaith, and I break my heart in vain.”

World Years Heart Hard Christian Lasts Break Sun Gone Saws Pride Kings My Heart Slave Casts Karma Graves Broke Vain Bent Refrain Old World Remnants Breaking My Heart Babylon

Author:William Ernest Henley

“At school I was called Fred, which is my middle name. At that time, Fred was considered to be a bit of a horrible name, so that's why. Otherwise, I was called Titchy because I was little. I was still only about 4ft something when I left school. I grew a foot under glass in my first year as a gardener. It's really quite amazing what sun and manure can do.”

Years Firsts Littles Stills School Names Left Bits Can Do Sun Feet Middle Grew Glasses Horrible Gardener Manure

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.”

Ifs Thinking Years Matter Happens Earth Guy Turns Loses Space Millions Sun Theory Baseball Giants Cosmic This Guy Burn Out Snowball

Author:Bill Lee

“Time can take nothing from the BIBLE. It is the living monitor. Like the sun, it is the same in its light and influence to man this day which it was years ago. It can meet every present inquiry and console every present loss”

Men Years Light Loss Sun Influence Years Ago This Day Inquiry Console

Author:Richard Cecil

“The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun’s glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun.”

Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards

“Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.”

Years Religion Sun Four Mankind Temples Thank God Brethren

Author:Voltaire

“When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.”

“Back in the late 1970's, when I was fifteen years old, I spent every penny I then had in the bank to fly across the continent in a 747 jet to Brandon, Manitoba, deep in the Canadian prairies, to witness a total eclipse of the sun.”

Years Sun Late Witness Continents Fifteen Pennies Jet Eclipse Fifteen Years Prairie Fifteen Years Old Total Eclipse Eclipse Of The Sun

Book:Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad just inhaling both of them, and me waiting to get the sports page from him. I fell in love with the craft. I remember being 9 years old and playing baseball in the backyard and coming in and writing little newspaper articles for my dad.”

Writing Years Littles Remember Sports Waiting Morning Sun Growing Up Growing Dad Pages Spring Baseball My Dad Newspapers Crafts Posts Articles Afternoon Backyards Colorado Denver Playing Baseball

Author:Pat Forde

“We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to dwarf you. It tells you that the sun will not fluxuate for another billion years, that species come and go, and, in other words, on a temporal scale you don't matter. And that now doesn't matter. But when you look at the release of energy, the asymptotic speeding up of processes, we tend to be xenophobically oriented toward the human.”

Years Humans Looks Matter Energy Process Sun Species Humble Billions Scales Release Comes And Goes Dwarfs Dwarves Speeding Pivotal Speeding Up

Author:Terence McKenna

“Let me put it in a rather larger picture framework. Let's go to the longest time frame, the time frame of the life of our sun. As a star, our sun is about halfway through its life cycle. In the long run, we only have a couple of billion more years likely that we can inhabit this planet. By that time, we're going to have to be out of here before our sun dies. Now, I don't think we need to wait that long, and we certainly shouldn't wait that long. At the moment, we are not on a sustainable path.”

Thinking Needs Years Long Moments Running Dies Stars Waiting Sun Path Planets Couple Let Me Billions Cycles Long Runs Framework Halfway

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“When I was 14 years old, I literally just had to cut off all my ends because I was just a frizzball from the sun, like I absolutely killed my hair. So from that day on, I had leave-in conditioner stuck to me 24/7.”

Years Ends Sun Cutting Hair Stuck

Author:Laura Enever

“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

“If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants from the birth itself, an event that took place about four-and-a-half-billion years ago.”

Ifs Want Years Would Be Secret Behinds Half Sun Four Events Planets Birth Years Ago Billions Helpful Remnants

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets.”

Years Reason Half Known Sun Four Planets Birth Years Ago Clouds Billions Dust Gas Transformed Solar System

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson