Blue Quotes - Page 39

• Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.

  Newton Arvin

  Book, Reading, Two

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• You're lookin' so good in what's left of those blue jeans
  Drip of honey on the money maker gotta be
  The best buzz I'm ever gonna find
  Hey, I'm a little drunk on you
  And high on summertime

  Luke Bryan

  Country, Song, Jeans

  Song: Drunk On You, 2011

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• Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that the delightful influences which the green leaves, the blue sky, the moonbeams and clouds of the evening diffuse over the universe, may in their powers of soul-healing, visit your day visions, is my desire and hope.

  Humphry Davy

  Beautiful, Nature, Morning

  Sir Humphry Davy (1858). “Fragmentary remains, literary and scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, bart., late president of the Royal society, etc: with a sketch of his life and selections from his correspondence”, p.64

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• In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Beautiful, Nature, Children

  Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.161

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• Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all things of the earth. It embodies the hopes and dreams of those who have gone before, including the spirit world; it is so fragile it can be destroyed by a sound or thought. It may be infinitesimally small or encompass the universe itself. It comes in a swift conception wherever nature has not been disturbed.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Dream, Nature, Distance

  Sigurd F Olson (2012). “Reflections from the North Country”, p.107, Knopf

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• That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes and dreams of posterity - that's what's at stake. That's what we're fighting for. And if we remember that, I'm absolutely sure we'll succeed.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Children, Laughter

  Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on speculation, not evidence. Proponents are pressing their views with more PR than scientific data. Indeed, we have allowed the whole issue to be politicized-red vs blue, Republican vs Democrat. This is in my view absurd. Data aren't political. Data are data. Politics leads you in the direction of a belief. Data, if you follow them, lead you to truth.

  Michael Crichton

  Issues, Views, Data

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• You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.

  Al Gore

  War, Believe, Home

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

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• So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds from chimin', block the sun from shinin',an' paint the sky a deeper shade of blue, 'cause my world's over without you.

  Kenny Rogers

  Sweet, Stars, Block

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• The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky

  William Carlos Williams

  Weed, Dark, Moon

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• It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

  Stephen King

  Running, Zero, Mean

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• Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Inspiration, Clouds

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “The Poetry of St. Therese of Lisieux: The Complete Edition”, p.206, ICS Publications

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• Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air.

  Charles Dickens

  Song, Nature, Air

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.37

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• Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth ... home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Home, Science, Moon

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.454, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• From a distance the world looks blue and green,
  and the snow-capped mountains white.
  From a distance the ocean meets the stream,
  and the eagle takes to flight.
  From a distance, there is harmony,
  and it echoes through the land.
  It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace,
  it's the voice of every man

  Bette Midler

  Distance, Ocean, Men

  Song: From a distance, Album: Some People's Lives, 2006

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• If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago.

  George H. Morris

  Horse, Light, Long Ago

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• The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing

  Yuri Gagarin

  War, Earth, Cold

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• So with the stretch of the white road before me,
  Shining snow crystals rainbowed by the sun,
  Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue shadows,
  Strong with the strength of my horse as we run.
  Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight!
  Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.

  Amy Lowell

  Running, Strong, Horse

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Dragons, Two

  "'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter I: "The Craft", 1939.

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• Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of belonging to the sky, of owning and being owned - if only for a moment - by the air I breathe. It is akin to the well known claim of the swallow: each bird staking out his personal bug-strewn slice of heaven, his inviolate property of the blue.

  Guy Murchie

  Sky, Air, Bird

  Guy Murchie (2016). “Song of the Sky”, p.299, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The spacious firmament on high,
  And all the blue ethereal sky,
  And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
  Their great Original proclaim.

  Joseph Addison

  Sky, Shining, Heaven

  'The Spectator' no. 465, 23 August 1712, 'Ode'

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• Don't step on my blue suede shoes.

  Elvis Presley

  Shoes, Steps

  Elvis Presley (2005). “Elvis Presley”, p.21, Berklee Press

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• Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into American blues, gospel, folk hymnody, and hill country dance music. To that gumbo, he added the invigorating rhythms and harmonies of hot jazz. It was a new kind of American music, named in honor of his band The Blue Grass Boys to be known, simply, as bluegrass.

  Paul Zollo

  Music, Country, Boys

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• I have found there are real objects under in intelligent control being seen on the ground and in our skies worldwire. The unknowns have varied over the decades from 22 percent in my own civilian files, 30 percent in the University of Colorda Condon Committee scientific studies, to at least 40 percent recently revised found in the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book military investigations. This is not acceptable, no matter who is doing the investigations.

  George Fawcett

  Military, Real, Book

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• Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.

  Arthur Miller

  Smile, Men, Earthquakes

  Death of a Salesman (1949) "Requiem"

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