Sunlight

About Sunlight

"Sunlight" is the debut solo single by Irish singer Nicky Byrne. The song represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 held in Stockholm, Sweden after being internally selected by RTÉ, the Irish broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest. The song did not qualify for that year's Grand Final, only earning 46 points, managing a 15th-place finish in the first semi-final.

Overview

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“Sun has never deprived anyone of its light and energy irrespective of their caste and religion. Despite this, if it is being linked to communalism then I request such people to stay in their rooms during the day without sunlight.”
— Yogi Adityanath. On religious groups claiming that the Yoga practice Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation) would cause religious disharmony or be an infidel practice incompatible with Islam or Christianity, as quoted in "People opposed to 'Surya Namaskar' should lock themselves in 'dark room': Yogi Adityanath", Zee News (9 June 2015)
“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
— Georg Fabricius, in praise of Georg Agricola in De Metallicis Rebus (1566); as translated by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover in the introduction to their 1912 translation of Agricola's De Re Metallica (1556)
“Thou shall come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.”
— John Lyly, Euphues. Howell, Instructions for Ferreine Travell (1642), Arber's reprint, 1869
“There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
— Jonas Salk, in response to the question regarding his Polio vaccine, "Who owns the patent on this vaccine?" by Edward R. Murrow, in a CBS Television interview, on See It Now (12 April 1955); quoted in Jon Cohen, Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine (2001)
“Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.”
— William Wordsworth, "On Revisiting the Banks of Wye" (1798)
“The sun never leaves my heart, which surpasses a garden.”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection III, ETCSL, 3rd millennium BCE

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