Shone Quotes
128 Shone quotes by 98 unique authors
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My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.
— Winston Churchill
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As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
— William Bradford
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Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow…
— Haruki Murakami
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I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light…
— Edward Burne-Jones
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The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today.
— Linda Goodman
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The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without…
— Louis Agassiz
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But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,…
— Charles Dickens
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In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the…
— Charles Dickens
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Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
— Angela Carter
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While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The Angel of the Lord came down, And Glory shone around.
— Nahum Tate
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal…
— Albert Einstein
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I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running…
— Clare B. Dunkle
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Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron…
— Celia Rees
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At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader…
— Richard Adams
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I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly…
— Berkeley Breathed
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Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
— William Butler Yeats
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It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it.
— Fern Britton
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When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he…
— Anton Chekhov
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Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one…
— William Wordsworth
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Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears,…
— Charles Lamb
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But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done,…
— Robert E. Lee
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When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we…
— Linda Gregg
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But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies…
— John Foxe
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