Blue Sky Quotes - Page 2

• I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Men, Blue

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 3 (1898)

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• Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky? Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it? No, we just enjoy it. Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing. We don't need to go to China to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to travel into the future to enjoy our breathing. We can be in touch with these things right now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sunshine, Practice, Sky

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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• Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Blue, Sky, Earth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.234

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• That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Blue, Sky

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.258

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• When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Wisdom, Nature, Strong

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• Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

  Charles Kingsley

  Military, War, Rain

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Beautiful, Blue, Sky

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.80, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long

  Irving Berlin

  Song, Blue, Sky

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• Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

  Nelson Mandela

  Wall, Clouds, Blue

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.297, Pan Macmillan

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• Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

  Jules Feiffer

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

  Jules Feiffer (1963). “Feiffer's Album”

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• One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Blue, Sea

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• You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

  Guy Kawasaki

  Thinking, Blue, Sky

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• When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.

  George MacDonald

  God, Kindness, Lying

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• If Ford is to Chevrolet what Dodge is to Chrysler,
  what Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties,
  what the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea,
  what Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong -
  can you doubt we were made for each other?

  Lyle Lovett

  Corn Flakes, Blue, Sea

  Song: Here I Am

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• When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

  Sandra Lerner

  School, Math, Blue

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• Ah! In fact there are two moralities ... The petty one, the conventional one, the one devised by men, that keeps changing and bellows so loudly, making a commotion down here among us, in a perfectly pedestrian way ... But the other one, the eternal one, is all around and above us, like a landscape that surrounds us and the blue sky that gives us light.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Men, Sky, Two

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.133, Penguin

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• There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.

  Kami Garcia

  Blue, Escaping, Color

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• I do work hard at trying to find the right expression for something, which might be like finding the right image - choosing not only the right words but down to the right number of lines. I remember being in Maine once at Colby College with Alex Katz. It houses hundreds of his works. There was a painting of just one seagull against a blue sky. I was admiring it and Alex said, "45 brush strokes exactly."

  David Salle

  Hard Work, College, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Faith, Prayer, Blue

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.46, e-artnow

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• I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.

  James Callaghan

  Eye, Blue, Sky

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• When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Blue, Ice

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• Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Fog, Blue

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• I never realized that the blue sky I saw was not the soft, nurturing sky of spring, but the cold, chilling, lonely sky of winter

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Lonely, Spring, Winter

  Virginia C. Andrews (1984). “Seeds of yesterday”, Pocket

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• Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stars, Flower, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.207, Delphi Classics

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