Sky Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the sky, yes, but I actually believe it.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Believe, Pie, Sound

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. With no selfish or partial joy but for the sake of the law they rejoiced, for creation engulfed in the ocean of pain was now to obtain release.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Selfish, Ocean

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• Reach for the sky, set goals, live life to fullest and always remember to wake up each day with a smile.

  Brandy Miller

  Cute, Live Life, Goal

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• How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.

  Gautama Buddha

  Brother, Heart, Journey

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• Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?

  Dana Burnet

  Dream, Butterfly, Wind

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• And you know, talk about something else is falling from the sky. And that is an asteroid. What's coming our way? Is this an effect of perhaps global warming or just some meteoric occasion?

  Deborah Feyerick

  Fall, Way, Asteroids

  "CNN Newsroom" with Deborah Feyerick, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2013.

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• Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars, the harmony and rhythm that issue from the world as from a lyre, the return of the seasons, the alternation of the months, the demarcation of day and night, the fruits of the earth, the vastness of the air, the ceaseless motion of the waves, the sound of the wind?

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Faith, Stars, Inspiration

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• We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.

  Gavin Pretor-Pinney

  Fighting, Thinking, Blue

  Gavin Pretor-Pinney (2007). “The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds”, p.11, Penguin

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• When you train your thoughts to dissolve as they arise, they will cross your mind like a bird crosses the sky--without leaving a trace.

  Julietta Suzuki

  Bird, Leaving, Mind

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• Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there. Stories are crescent moons; they glimmer in the night sky, but they are most exquisite in their incomplete state. Because people crave the beauty of not-knowing, the excitement of suggestion, and the sweet tragedy of mystery.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Sweet, Moon, Night

  Diana Abu-Jaber (2004). “Crescent: A Novel”, p.384, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another's unhappiness. So then, what exactly should I pray for? Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.

  Chica Umino

  Moon, Night, Hands

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• Sometimes I look up at the stars and analyze the sky,
  And ask myself: was I meant to be here...why?

  Ghostface Killah

  Stars, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: All That I Got Is You, Album: Ironman, 2006

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• Don't you like when the winter's gone, And all of a sudden it starts gettin' warm? The trees and the grass start lookin' fresh, And the sun and sky be lookin' their best.

  Biz Markie

  Rap, Winter, Hip Hop

  Song: Spring Again, Album: The Biz Never Sleeps, 1989

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• Sky is the limit and you know that you keep on,
  Just keep on pressin on.
  Sky is the limit and you know that you can have
  what you want, be what you want.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Inspirational, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Sky Is The Limit, Album: Life After Death

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• It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.

  John Keats

  Summer, Singing, Flaws

  'To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.' (written 1818)

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• Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thanksgiving, Earth, Be Grateful

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• When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

  Isaac Watts

  Fear, Farewell, Eye

  Isaac Watts (1867). “The Penny Watts's Hymns ... Selected and Abridged from Dr. Watts's Hymns”, p.94

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• We recognised that just putting more flights and more passengers into the skies over southeast England wasn't worth the environmental costs we-re paying.

  Theresa Villiers

  Airports, Environmental, Cost

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• Glad that I live am I;
  That the sky is blue;
  Glad for the country lanes,
  And the fall of dew.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Country, Retirement, Fall

  Lizette Woodworth Reese, “A Little Song Of Life”

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• In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Inspirational, Happiness, Men

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• If you would and you could brighten my northern sky.

  Nick Drake

  Valentines Day, Valentine, Ifs

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• If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Wall

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.270, Harvard University Press

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• Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.

  Colin Fletcher

  Energy, Weight, Backpacking

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• And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected to squat on the ground like a frightened canary every time there was a cloud in the sky. If a pilot showed an obvious preference for flying only in the best conditions he soon found himself looking for work. This was the way of his life and he had always ascended when others had found excuse to keep their feet on the ground.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Clouds, Feet, Flying

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