Bright

Famous quotes containing the word bright:

“God sent children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race—to enlarge our hears; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections; to give our souls higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion; and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts.”
—Mary Botham Howitt (20th century)

“Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The elect, the elected . . . they come here bright as dimes,
and die dishevelled and soft.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)