Sky Quotes - Page 36

• Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Dust, Hands

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Nature, Umbrella, Interfere

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• Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.

  Paul Simon

  Inspirational, Clouds, Negative Words

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.

  Garth Brooks

  Peace, Ocean, Special

  Song: We Shall Be Free, Album: The Chase, 1992

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• Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Men, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.214, Broadview Press

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• Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

  Arthur Koestler

  Science, Technology, Reality

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

  Patti Smith

  Poetry, Storm, Dawn

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.

  Patti Smith

  Believe, Fate, Sea

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.73, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• O' beautiful, for spacious skies
  But now those skies are threatening
  They're beating plowshares into swords
  For this tired old man that we elected king.

  Don Henley

  Beautiful, Kings, Tired

  "Song: 'The End of the Innocence'". 1989.

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• The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.

  Anita Shreve

  Fall, Heart, Law

  Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown

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• We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

  Brian Andreas

  Stars, Science, Night

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• I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had.

  Uri Geller

  Light, Wish, Ufo

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.

  Hannah Szenes

  Song, Peace, War

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• It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

  Simone Weil

  Nature, Light, Roots

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• Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the reasons why, this is how creation goes.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Philosophy, Wine, Ebb And Flow

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• Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.

  Don McLean

  Dream, Philosophy, Mountain

  Song: Castles in The Air

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• The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Dark, Light

  Song: Death is Not The End, Album: Down In The Groove, 1988

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• As I lay me down to sleep, this I pray. That you will hold me, dear. Though I'm far away, I whisper your name into the sky. And I will wake up happy.

  Sophie B. Hawkins

  Romantic, Sleep, Names

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• The first time I ever saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes and the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave to the dark and empty sky, my love.

  Ewan MacColl

  Romantic, Stars, Eye

  "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (song) (1962)

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• I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day I day.

  Barbara Lewis

  Running, Stars, Fall

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• There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

  Stephen King

  Encouraging, Islands, Ideas

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• I can see thru mountains watch me disappear, I can even touch the sky. Swallowing the colors of the sounds I hear, am I just a crazy guy? You bet.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Crazy, Color, Insanity

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• Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time.

  Edward Ruscha

  Clouds, Airports, Blue

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• The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change, Clouds, Never Change

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)”, p.42, editionNEXT.com

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• Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Sea, Earth

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.35

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