Sunflower Day Quotes

look at its shape, with vibrant yellows and oranges, a sunflower can brighten your day...it's as if it is smiling like a happy face painted on the sun...so if you do only one thing all day, let it be to smile, so you can brighten the day of others around you, just like the sunflower ~ Bodhi Smith

Past the flannel plains and blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-brown river overhung with weeping trees and coins of sunlight through them on the water downriver, to the place beyond the windbreak, where untilled fields simmer shrilly in the A.M. heat: shattercane, lamb's-quarter, cutgrass, sawbrier, nutgrass, jimsonweed, wild mint, dandelion, foxtail, muscadine, spinecabbage, goldenrod, creeping charlie, butter-print, nightshade, ragweed, wild oat, vetch, butcher grass, invaginate volunteer beans, all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother's soft hand on your cheek. An arrow of starlings fired from the windbreak's thatch. The glitter of dew that stays where it is and steams all day. A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys. All nodding. Electric sounds of insects at their business. Ale-colored sunshine and pale sky and whorls of cirrus so high they cast no shadow. Insects all business all the time. Quartz and chert and schist and chondrite iron scabs in granite. Very old land. Look around you. The horizon trembling, shapeless. We are all of us brothers.

Some crows come overhead then, three or four, not a murder, on the wing, silent with intent, corn-bound for the pasture's wire beyond which one horse smells at the other's behind, the lead horse's tail obligingly lifted. Your shoes' brand incised in the dew. An alfalfa breeze. Socks' burrs. Dry scratching inside a cu ~ David Foster Wallace

I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life. ~ Helen Mirren

Once upon a time there was a poor child with no father and no mother everything was dead
and no one was left in the whole world.
Everything was dead
and it went and searched day and night And since nobody was left on the earth it wanted to go up to the heavens and the moon was looking at it so friendly and when it finally got to the moon the moon was a piece of rotten wood and then it went to the sun and when it got there the sun was a wilted sunflower and when it got to the stars they were little golden flies stuck up there
like the shrike sticks 'em on the blackthorn and when it wanted to go back down to earth the earth was an overturned piss pot! and was all alone. ~ Georg Buchner

We had a strong desire to make a trip up the Yazoo and the Sunflower - an interesting region at any time, but additionally interesting at this time, because up there the great inundation was still to be seen in force - but we were nearly sure to have to wait a day or more for a New Orleans boat on our return; so we were obliged to give up the project. ~ Mark Twain

Mulder strolled into his office whistling.
It was the kind of day that began with a gorgeous, unreal sunrise ... he was half-afraid he was dreaming ...
It took a second for him to notice Scully in his chair.
'Morning,' he said brightly.
All he needed now was a generous supply of sunflower seeds, and things would be perfect.
Scully reached down beside her, and tossed him a plastic bag.
He caught it against his chest one-handed and held it up. It was a half pound of sunflower seeds. He smiled. A sign; it had to be a sign. ~ Charles Grant

Time and the bell have buried the day,
The black cloud carries the sun away.
Will the sunflower turn to us, will the clematis
Stray down, bend to us; tendril and spray
Clutch and cling?
Chill
Fingers of yew be curled
Down on us? After the kingfisher's wing
Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still
At the still point of the turning world. ~ T. S. Eliot

The most servile Negroes are suspect, and every means is used to impress upon them the power of the White Citizens Councils. Even police brutality can be put to good use. An incident in Ruleville, Sunflower County, birthplace of the Council, will illustrate the point. Preston Johns, Negro renter on Senator Eastland's plantation near Blanc, is a "good nigger who knows his place." One day in May 1955, Preston's wife got into a fight with another Negro woman in the Jim Crow section of the Ruleville theater. The manager threw the women out and notified the police. While the police were questioning the women, Preston's daughter came up to see what was happening to her mother. Without warning, a policeman struck her over the head with the butt of his gun. She fell to the pavement bleeding badly. The police left her there. Someone went for her father. When he came up, the police threatened to kill him. Preston left and called Mr. Scruggs, one of Eastland's cronies. After half an hour, Scruggs came and permitted the girl to be lifted from the street and taken to the hospital.

When Scruggs left, he yelled to the Negroes across the street: "You'll see who your friend is. If it wasn't for us Citizens Council members, she'd have near about died." One old Negro answered back, "I been tellin' these niggers Mr. Scruggs and Mr. Eastland is de best friends dey got." A few days later, Senator Eastland came to Ruleville to look the situation over. Many Negroes lined the streets and ~ Bayard Rustin

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It was wonderful; I felt the whole universe in the sunflower. That was my experience. Sunflower meditation. A wonderful confidence appeared. You can see the whole universe in a flower. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy ~ Thomas Bulfinch

We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun is. It is almost second nature to us to prefer explanations ... with a large vocabulary. We are much more comfortable when we are assured that the sunflower turns because it is heliotropic. The trouble with that kind of talk is that it tempts us to think that we know what the sunflower is up to. But we don't. The sunflower is a mystery, just as every single thing in the universe is. ~ Robert Farrar Capon

The sunflower is mine, in a way. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

A sunflower for my sunflower. To brighten the dark October days you hate so much. Plant some more, and be safe in the knowledge a warm and bright summer awaits. ~ Cecelia Ahern

What god does a sunflower believe in? That's the god I believe in. ~ Marty Rubin

And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood. ~ William Cullen Bryant

I can't feel bad about being who I am, just like the girl next to me can't feel bad about being who she is. Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. ~ Miranda Kerr

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower. ~ Vera Nazarian

A sunflower teaches us so much about love. ~ Samrah Ahmad

I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag
it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off. ~ Jerry Spinelli

She is a sunflower! She brings hope to people. ~ Avijeet Das

I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better. ~ Halle Berry

Restless sunflower; cease to move. ~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old. ~ Takeshi Kitano

A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too. I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. ~ Miranda Kerr

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then! ~ Allen Ginsberg

I would much rather end up a fertiliser under a sunflower which is eventually made into sunflower seed oil so that instead of nibbling me in her prawn cocktail, the pretty girl will rub me on her bristols as she suns herself on a beach in the Caribbean. ~ Oliver Reed

The new country lay open before me: there were no fences in those days, and I could choose my own way over the grass uplands, trusting the pony to get me home again. Sometimes I followed the sunflower-bordered roads. Fuchs told me that the sunflowers were introduced into that country by the Mormons; that at the time of the persecution when they left Missouri and struck out into the wilderness to find a place where they could worship God in their own way, the members of the first exploring party, crossing the plains to Utah, scattered sunflower seeds as they went. The next summer, when the long trains of wagons came through with all the women and children, they had a sunflower trail to follow. I believe that botanists do not confirm Jake's story but, insist that the sunflower was native to those plains. Nevertheless, that legend has stuck in my mind, and sunflower-bordered roads always seem to me the roads to freedom. ~ Willa Cather

I'm thinking waiters and waitresses are going to be bracing for more customers coming in going, not just kind of where is that beef from, but, like, where is that vanilla from and what's up with that sunflower oil? Is it organic or not and how many pesticides? ~ Michael Moss

I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too. ~ Miranda Kerr

Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. ~ Charles Jencks

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers. ~ Martin Firrell

Her smile put the sunflower to shame. ~ Jerry Spinelli

Later, gator."
"In an hour, sunflower. ~ Alexandra Bracken

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds. ~ Richard Brautigan

Sunflower poised against the sunset, crackly bleak and dusty with the smut and smog and smoke of olden locomotives in its eye
corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like a battered crown, seeds fallen out of its face, soon-to-be-toothless mouth of sunny air, sunrays obliterated on its hairy head like a dried wire spiderweb,
leaves stuck out like arms out of the stem, gestures from the sawdust root, broke pieces of plaster fallen out of the black twigs, a dead fly in its ear ~ Allen Ginsberg

We're all golden sunflowers inside. ~ Allen Ginsberg

I'm a sunflower with a cracked petal. ~ Augusten Burroughs

It is not while beauty
And youth are thine own
And thy cheeks
Unprofaned by a tear
That the ferver and faith
Of a soul can be known
To which time will but
Make thee more dear
No the heart that has truly loved
Never forgets
But as truly loves
On to the close
As the sunflower turns
On her god when he sets
The same look which
She'd turned when he rose. ~ Thomas Moore

... always hold your heads high like a sunflower that stretches toward the light."

Childrens' book 'Land of Sunshine ~ Malene Rossau

In each of the separate sections Mother would put a different treat - sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds, sesame cookies, and peanuts. ~ Katherine Paterson

I would follow you anywhere and everywhere, for no reason and every reason.
Seed of the Sunflower ~ Lisa N. Edwards

She kept her face to the floor, moving in her personal oblivion, her sunflower eyes fixed on the predicament of her life we would never understand. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

You may know that the peony is Jeannin's, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is mine in a way. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

When someone shows me even the tiniest bit of kindness my entire soul still twists towards them. A sunflower searching for the sun. A hatchling keening for its mother. I ~ Darshana Suresh

His hair stuck up more than usual, but he was otherwise neat in his typical black. If they lived through the mission, she decided to buy him an obnoxiously cheerful shirt. Something in sunflower yellow, perhaps. ~ Lindsay Buroker

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. ~ Jean Paul

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. ~ Confucius

Here they are: Power Proteins Super Starches Chicken breast Oats Tuna (chunk light, canned in water) Brown rice Black beans Corn Prime Produce - Veggies Fit Fats Carrots Avocado Tomatoes Sunflower seeds Mushrooms Cashews Prime Produce-Fruits Blueberries Oranges Grapes ~ Phillip C. McGraw

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything. ~ John Locke

in a crowd of roses, choose to be a sunflower.
thornless. unwithering. abundant in seeds ~ JaTawny M. Chatmon

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close. ~ Thomas Moore

Day One of my life was the day I met you. ~ Sylvia Day

I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives. ~ Dalai Lama

I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs. Jude and me have one soul between us that we have to share: a tree with its leaves on fire. And Dad has a plate of maggots for his. ~ Jandy Nelson

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life. ~ Lee Iacocca

The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore. ~ Green Day

2 cups unbleached flour 1 cup rolled oats 1 Tbsp baking powder ½ tsp sea salt 1 cup sliced almonds ½ cup shredded coconut ½ cup chocolate chips 2 cups maple syrup 6 oz firm silken tofu (aseptic package) 1 ripe banana ½ cup saffower or sunflower oil ½ cup vegetable shortening 1 Tbsp vanilla ~ Tanya Petrovna

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right. ~ Bill Cosby

Decide what it is that you are and then stay true to that thing. My brand is based very much on how I live my day-to-day life. ~ Rachael Ray

I get inspired by so many things every single day. Things I see every day, conversations, arguments, day to day occurrences, good days, bad days, loneliness, happiness, anger, anxiety, pressure, relationships ... EVERYTHING. ~ Ricki-Lee Coulter

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen. ~ Ralph Richardson

Maybe when it comes to my music, or my performances, I'm a little more aggressive because I want everything to be perfect. But not in normal, day-to-day life. ~ Tinie Tempah

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it. ~ Frederick Lenz

Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day. ~ Jay Leno

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life. ~ Nic Pizzolatto

When I realize I made someone's day, it makes my day. ~ Genesis Quihuis

Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day. ~ Arthur Golden

In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us. ~ Margaret Heffernan

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all. ~ Jane Lynch

Live each day as if it were the last day of your life because, so far, it is. ~ Richard Jeni

I twist like a flower
at the sound of your voice
But you leave the receiver
static most days
You have me growing into a dial tone

All it would take is your voice
saying my name
And I would behead myself
to be carried around on your lapel ~ Kait Rokowski

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends. ~ David Levithan

Day-to-day life is a lot of work. I work a lot on stand-up stuff, and then day-to-day life and, you know, just living. It's always different. Try to work out, try to stay in shape, and try to have some fun. ~ Chris Tucker

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. ~ Samuel Gompers

Emotion kicked logic's ass.
He was going after Quinn. ~ Alyssa Day

Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought - and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him. ~ Joyce Meyer

To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away. ~ Stephen Sondheim

I have no story. My story goes from day to day. ~ Robert Plant

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life. ~ Shakti Gawain

Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing. ~ Julia Stiles

The thing I miss about Russia the most is what is called 'black bread.' It's rye bread, and everyone eats it. I slice mine up and put sunflower oil and salt on it ... the best thing ever. It was like a little treat for me when I was a kid. ~ Olesya Rulin

Clothing, hair and make-up are just reflective of how I am feeling at any given moment and that varies from day to day. ~ Mya

I've matured, maybe, but not grown up. ~ Green Day

Each day the first day:
Each day a life. ~ Dag Hammarskjold

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous ~ Albert Einstein

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Every day, each day is the most important day of your life. ~ Art Hochberg

Confucius say, man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day ~ Sylvia Day

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical. ~ Jorge Paulo Lemann

Today, another Day, and a Opportunity for to be Amazing ~ Jan Jansen

Do not wait until life meets some inner criteria to seize the day, she whispered. I have learned that sometimes tomorrow never comes. ~ Sylvia Day

I'm a little tired of protecting people who help the ones trying to conquer them ~ Alyssa Day

You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day." ~ Mos Def

This day is the most recent set of events to define you.
Every day changes your life. Every last one. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich