Sky Quotes - Page 7

• My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and a green flowery Eden in my brain; but without, I am perfectly aware, lies at my feet a rough tract to travel, and around me gather black tempests to encounter.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lying, Eden, Feet

  Charlotte Bronte (2015). “Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.393, 谷月社

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• Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Disappointment, Regret, Heart

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...

  John Lennon

  Atheist, People, Imagination

  "Imagine" (song) (1971)

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• What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.

  Walter de La Mare

  Snow, Soldier, World

  'Napoleon' (1906)

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• Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Judging, States

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.333, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars.

  Percival Lowell

  Stars, Blow, Causes

  Lowell Observatory, Percival Lowell (1898). “Annals of the Lowell Observatory”

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• Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

  Umberto Saba

  Stars, Light, Evening

  Umberto Saba (1998). “Songbook: Selected Poems from the Canzoniere”

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• Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be as wellknown as Henry Ford's, for his helicopter will all but replace the horseless carriage as the new means of popular transportation. Instead of a car in every garage, there will be a helicopter.... These 'copters' will be so safe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for teenage youngsters. These tiny 'copters, when school lets out, will fill the sky as the bicycles of our youth filled the prewar roads.

  Harry Bruno

  Teenage, War, School

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• Can I add a class? Do you have a problem with letting me audit 8th grade American Civics? Can you get the AP English reading list for me right now? What is this carton of milk? Will you tell me how many calories are in five and half Gummi Bears? Why are there birds in the air right now? Why is the sky so blue? Can I get the home phone number of the school district supervisor? You know I was in Basic Instinct, right?

  Sharon Stone

  Reading, Home, School

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• The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

  Ansel Adams

  Glowing, Land, Details

  Ansel Adams, Karen E. Haas, Rebecca A. Senf (2005). “Ansel Adams: in the Lane Collection”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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• Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Morning, Moon, Anxiety

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• Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

  Nancy Farmer

  Air, Wind, Smell

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• When there are no clouds in the sky, under the beautiful sunshine, remember the rain and repair your umbrella!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Rain, Sunshine

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• The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

  Louise Erdrich

  Ignorance, Size, Length

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.37, Odyssey Editions

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• The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble.

  Hope Mirrlees

  Castles, Towers, Sides

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.62, F+W Media, Inc.

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• There's some invisible guy, up in the sky, who can kill you, because he loves you.

  George Carlin

  Jesus, Love You, Guy

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• Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.

  Lewis Howard Latimer

  Science, May, Today

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• Love is a rainbow curving down from the sky, falling crystals of color, shades of warm that never die.

  Phil Ochs

  Love, Fall, Color

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• Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.

  Neil Peart

  Eye, Sight, Sea

  Neil Peart (2002). “Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road”, p.340, ECW Press

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• Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Fog, Blue

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• Respect your soul: don't keep repeating "I'm going to make it". Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. An obsession does not help you at all to reach your objective, and even ends up taking the pleasure out of the climb. But pay attention: also, don't keep saying "it's harder than I thought", because that will make you lose your inner strength.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Journey

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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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• Glory be to God for dappled things-
  For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
  For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
  Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
  Landscape plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plough;
  And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
  
  All things counter, original, spare, strange;
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
  With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
  He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
  Praise him.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Life, Sweet, Couple

  "Pied Beauty" l. 7 (written 1877)

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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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