Sun Kings

Famous quotes containing the words sun and/or kings:

    The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    Surely he is a god; either he is meditating, or he has wandered away, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.
    Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 18:27.

    Elijah mocking worshipers of Ba’al.