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Sunlight Quotes

On light, movement, and the clarity sunlight brings.

These sunlight quotes range from the natural rhythm of moving between sun and shade to sunlight's role in painting and the wider world of Nature.

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

Quotes by Wyndham Lewis

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Quotes by Seth Shostak

We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.

Quotes by Roy Rogers

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Quotes by Rita Rudner

Clarity Quotes

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

Quotes by Richard Jefferies

Sunlight is painting.

Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

Quotes by Mike Quigley

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.

Quotes by Michelle Malkin

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Quotes by Lyman Abbott

Emotion Quotes

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Quotes by Louis D. Brandeis

I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by the Irish greys and drizzle. I love the cities of the Spanish interior.

Quotes by Kevin Barry

We must bring the issue of mental illness out into the sunlight, out of the shadow, out of the closet, deal with it, treat people, have centers where people can get the necessary help.

Quotes by John Lewis

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

Quotes by Jessamyn West

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Quotes by Herbert Hoover

Energy Quotes

When the yields of biofuels per hectare are known, one can easily calculate how much of the energy of the sunlight is stored in the biofuels.

Quotes by Hartmut Michel

I don't much care for the sunlight or bright colours of any kind.

Quotes by Glenn Gould

I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.

Quotes by Evel Knievel

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Quotes by Edward Hopper

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Quotes by Edward Hopper

Nature Quotes

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

Quotes by Edward Hopper

Frequently Asked Questions

How is sunlight linked to natural movement in these quotes?
One quote describes prostration as a natural position, likening how a person moves to a slow, worm-like crawl between patches of light and shadow.
What simple description of sunlight appears in these quotes?
One quote states plainly, "Sunlight is painting," treating light itself as a kind of artistic act. For more on light and mood, see Nature quotes.
What does the "sunlight is the best disinfectant" idea mean in these quotes?
It's used as an old adage suggesting that transparency and openness can expose and clean up problems that would otherwise stay hidden, much like sunlight countering germs.
Why is sunlight used as a metaphor for transparency?
These quotes use sunlight the way the disinfectant adage does: openness works like light does in nature, revealing what shadow or secrecy would otherwise conceal.
Do these quotes only describe sunlight as functional, or also as artistic?
Both - one quote calls sunlight "painting," giving it an aesthetic quality, while the disinfectant adage gives it a practical, almost cleansing role in how people think about honesty.

One well-known line calls sunlight the best disinfectant, a reminder openness often clears what shadows hide. See related Clarity and Energy quotes.