Pastoral Resources

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.

Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

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.

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Thought the sun is gone, I have a light.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.