Sky Quotes - Page 12

• The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

  Otto Weininger

  Appreciation, Stars, Angel

  Otto Weininger, Steven A. M. Burns (2001). “A translation of Weininger's Über die letzten Dinge, 1904-1907, On last things”, Edwin Mellen Pr

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• So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sweet, Flower, Yield

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.144

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• Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman, I look out my window and see burning flowers and starving armies but when I look up into the night sky I see the souls of dead heroes

  Raegan Butcher

  Flower, Hero, Army

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• As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without resistance. At first, the public, and particularly its religious portion, denounced the rising doubts as atheism.

  John William Draper

  Religious, Doubt, Atheism

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• When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Flower, Race, Dust

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• A red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't.

  Keith Crown

  Blue, Yellow, Apples

  Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

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• In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.

  Colin Hay

  Beautiful, Rain, Scotland

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• And each year now
  we know more, but we know no better —
  what we see in the sky is simply
  the softened gloss of the past sifting
  back to us, and likewise, every atom
  down the body’s shining length
  was inside a star, and will be again.

  Christopher Buckley

  Stars, Past, Years

  Christopher Buckley (1993). “Dark Matter: Poems”, Copper Beech Press

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• I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss.

  Joë Bousquet

  Blood, Saws, Scarves

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• It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And when down the midnight the owl call to-whoo! Why, then the round moon is a daffodil too; Now sheer to the bough-tops the sap starts to climb, So, merry my masters, it's daffodil time.

  Clinton Scollard

  Moon, Owl, Sun

  Clinton Scollard (1916). “Ballads, Patriotic & Romantic”

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• What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

  Camille Flammarion

  Stars, Blue, Doe

  Camille Flammarion, James Glaisher (1873). “The Atmosphere”, p.103, New York : Harper

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• The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It ravished away dullness, worry, even pain. It graces life when nothing else does. It is the first marvel of the day. Even when leaden grey it is still a friend, withdrawn for a time.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Pain, Worry, Grace

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• Bryce Zabel and I went down the road of revising the Kennedy historical record together on the NBC seriesDark Skies. This time instead of giving new meaning to the established JFK chronology, hes created a brand new one altogether.Surrounded by Enemiesis an exhilarating ride, full of twists and turns that never were, but surely could have been.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Nbc, Giving, Historical

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• The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally evocative objects that constitute a perfect delivery systemBooks that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. Books that make us believe, for however short a time, that we shall all live happily ever after.

  Joe Queenan

  Philosophy, Believe, Ocean

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• Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

  Ransom Riggs

  Life, Stars, Echoes

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• Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet. Isn't it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.

  Ajahn Chah

  Rain, Dirty, Feet

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• I watched the night sky with it's countless stars and its moon, and I wondered about the universe and all that had been created, why the stars and the moon rose at night and the sun in the day, how vast it must be, how I could never understand the infinite measure of its size.

  Patrick Carman

  Stars, Night, Moon

  Patrick Carman (2011). “The Land of Elyon #2: Beyond the Valley of Thorns”, p.101, Scholastic Inc.

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• Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.

  Carlos Bulosan

  Moon, Men, Light

  Carlos Bulosan, Epifanio San Juan (1995). “On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan”, p.88, Temple University Press

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• Why are there no clouds in the sky? ... 'Cause God wants to watch his favorite band again!

  Tre Cool

  Clouds, Watches, Band

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• To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

  Henry Winkler

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Blue, Acting

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• Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

  Seneca the Younger

  Travel, Stars, Looks

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• The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Nature, Children, Compassion

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• From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Stars

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.62, Sahitya Akademi

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• ...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths.

  Mark Helprin

  Strength, Nature, Real

  Mark Helprin (2007). “Memoir from Antproof Case”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I.
  My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Oddities, Feet, Clay

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “Ill-Made Mute”, p.1, Pan Macmillan

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