Quotes About Eclipse Of The Sun

#1. Their irreligious pride makes them withdraw from you and eclipse your great light from reaching themselves. They can foresee a future eclipse of the sun, but do not perceive their own eclipse in the present.

Augustine Of Hippo

#2. In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

Simon Newcomb

#3. To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.

Benjamin F. Wade

#4. 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.

Douglas Coupland

#5. An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

Mark Twain

#6. Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

Simon Newcomb

#7. The proper term is "occultation." The moon occults the sun, casting a small shadow onto the surface of the earth. It is not a solar eclipse, but in fact an eclipse of the earth.

Guillermo Del Toro

#8. The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.

Charles Spurgeon

#9. You just have to hold it in your mind, and it's yours to take from. The sun's treasure. It's there in those moments when the world makes a rainbow. It's there in the moment of eclipse and the moment of the storm." And he showed Shadow how to do the thing. This time Shadow got it.

Neil Gaiman

#10. My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

Charlotte Bronte

#11. Don't let what he wants eclipse what you need. He is very dreamy," she says. "But he is not the sun. You are.

Shonda Rhimes

#12. The term "solar eclipse" is in fact a misnomer. An eclipse occurs when one object passes into a shadow cast by another. In a solar eclipse, the moon does not pass into the sun's shadow, but instead passes between the sun and the earth, obscuring the sun -

Guillermo Del Toro

#13. How often do we find the blind leading the not-so-blind?

Asoka Nimal Jinadasa

#14. You taste like ass.

Simon Holt

#15. For more than a hundred years much complaint has been made of the unmethodical way in which schools are conducted, but it is only within the last thirty that any serious attempt has been made to find a remedy for this state of things. And with what result? Schools remain exactly as they were.

John Amos Comenius

#16. Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. Automatically, I eyed her slim, full-breasted figure and swallowed. For a junkie, this girl was put together. For anybody, this girl was put together.

Michael McCretton

#18. Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Billy Graham

#19. If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

Rosalynn Carter

#20. I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

Valeria Golino

#21. You can eclipse the sun, but the truth will always shine through.

Jaree Francis

#22. When you brought light to my darkness, I undiscovered the eclipse!

Avijeet Das

#23. A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

William Wycherley

#24. A story's no good unless it pisses somebody off.

Jere' M. Fishback

#25. He held his hand out, palm up, watching her with soft, penetrating eyes, deep, dark eyes that called to her the longer she stared at them. "How 'bout you give me the benefit of the doubt every once in a while, hmm? I'd like a chance to prove I'm not that stupid kid anymore.

J.M. Stewart

#26. Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they're jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. As the sun eclipses the stars by its brilliancy, so the man of knowledge will eclipse the fame of others in assemblies of the people if he proposes algebraic problems, and still more if he solves them.

Brahmagupta

#28. Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

William S. Burroughs

#29. If you looked inside me, I bet you'd find two different hearts beating for two different people, like the sun and the moon up at the same time, a terrible eclipse I'm the only witness to.

Adam Silvera

#30. When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

Kim Young-ha

#31. Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

Rex Reed

#32. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun.

Charlotte Bronte

#33. You can't dance with me in the day and sleep in his arms at night. You can't have the sun and moon at the same time. Unless there's an eclipse.

Neha Yazmin

#34. It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.

Jeff Goldblum

#35. We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

G.K. Chesterton

#36. I'll never forget what burning roses look like. All those scarlet petals turning incandescent and furious. Like the last fl are of the sun before an eclipse swallows it from the sky.

Roshani Chokshi