Sky Quotes - Page 35

• At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.

  Mohammed Dib

  Nature, Reflection, Water

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• I've had people say to me, 'Look at the sky, the fields, the ocean, the beautiful sunset. Isn't that proof positive of God?' Following that line of thought, look at the magnificent rainbows after a big rainstorm. Isn't that proof positive that God is gay?

  Ray Romano

  Beautiful, God, Ocean

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• Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spring, Winter, Exercise

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

  Dale Carnegie

  Nature, Children, Eye

  Dale Carnegie (1948). “How To Stop Worrying and Start”

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• Love sets your heart free. Be not afraid: dig deep, Take a deep breath And reach for the sky In your lover's heart.

  Laura Ramirez

  Cute, Heart, Lovers

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• What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.

  Henry Cuyler Bunner

  Nature, Tree, Doe

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• The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, God, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.381, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright.

  Lisa Loeb

  Friendship, Stars, Moon

  Song: Alone, Album: Tails

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• But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky

  Robert Hunter

  July, San Francisco, Heaven

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• I won't cry cause I live to die, with my mind on my money and my guns in the sky.

  Ja Rule

  Sadness, Gun, Mind

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• Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Sadness, Sorrow, Tears

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• When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Sadness, Sleep, Night

  Song: Somewhere Out There

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• Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

  Homer

  Laughter, Absurd, Shakes

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.47, Homer

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• The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.

  Aeschylus

  God, Winning, Majesty

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1956). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

  Graham Swift

  Summer, Names, Bird

  "Graham Swift: 'As a novelist, I'm in for the long haul'". www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2017.

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• The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.

  Morena Baccarin

  Space, Littles

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

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• I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

  Sara Bareilles

  Fall, Focus, Want

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

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• MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.

  Bob Barr

  Fall, Government, Degrees

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• Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

  Ovid

  Nature, Science, Sea

  Ovid,, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney (2008). “Metamorphoses”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.

  Lynne Cheney

  Doors, Civilization, Forever

  Lynne Cheney (2009). “Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.

  Marion Cotillard

  Stars, Thinking, Earth

  Interview with Nicole Kidman, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.

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• Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.

  Bob Dylan

  Eye, Jewels, Two

  Song: One More Cup Of Coffee Valley Below, Album: Desire, 1976

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• Fly me high through the starry skies or maybe to an astral plane, cross the highways of fantasy, help me to forget today's pain.

  Gary Wright

  Pain, Today, Helping

  Song: Dreamweaver

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• A black man, but I feel so blue. So I smoke green and purple to my dreams come true. And my eyes turn red, the sky turns grey.

  Ludacris

  Dream, Eye, Men

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• I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.

  Marvin Gaye

  Believe, Boys, Men

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