Northern Lights Quotes

• The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound fiery crimson like the fires of Hell, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer.

  Philip Pullman

  Fire, Light, Sight

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Kissing, Light, Sea

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• The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the darkAnd we may lose everything in the windBut the Northern Lights are burningAnd they're giving off sparks.

  Jim Steinman

  Cutting, Light, Knives

  Song: Bad For Good, Album: Bad for Good

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• Frost is but slender weeks away,
  Tonight the sunset glow will stay,
  Swing to the north and burn up higher
  And Northern Lights wall earth with fire.
  Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken,
  And yet the cold blue word is spoken:
  Say goodbye to the sun.
  The days of love and leaves are done.

  Robert P. T. Coffin

  Goodbye, Wall, Sunset

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• There will be natural propriety in using an eastern light for bedrooms and libraries, a western light in winter for baths and winter apartments, and a northern light for picture galleries and other places in which a steady light is needed; for that quarter of the sky grows neither light nor dark with the course of the sun, but remains steady and unshifting all day long.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Dark, Winter, Light

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II, Section 7,

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• Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights. But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora. To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain. What's your excuse?

  Vera Nazarian

  Beautiful, Christmas, Running

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• In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!

  Vincent Massey

  Light, Facts, South

  Address to the Annual Dinner of the Canadian Press, Toronto, April 18, 1956.

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• I try to show everybody Iceland all the time. My people are like, "Don't tell everybody the secret. It's so peaceful and beautiful here!" It's incredible; I go home and drive across country, and go to my mom's place and it's dark with the Northern Lights, and I like to sit in some hot springs.

  Anita Briem

  Beautiful, Mom, Country

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.

  Christopher

  Song, Light, Catholic

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• There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Frank Lampard, good children's stories aren't easy wins" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.

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