Sky famous quotes

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
-- A. E. Housman

#Beer #Sky #Ale

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
-- A. E. Housman

#Beer #Dust #Sky

My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.
-- A. Edward Newton

#Summer #Book #Sky

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
-- Abdul Kalam

#Inspirational #Dream #Sky

When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Light #Sky #Shining

For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.
-- Abu Rayhan al-Biruni

#Sky #Doe #Earth

I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!
-- Adam Mickiewicz

#Stars #Hands #Sky

You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
-- Adam Rapp

#Running #Sky #Forever

If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!
-- Adam Young

#Moon #Sky #Causes

Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Angel #Men #Sky

Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together
-- Adele

#Fall #Sky #Together

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Freedom #Blue #Sky

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.
-- Aeschylus

#Men #Sky #Proud

In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Love You #Night #Sky

From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Sky #Floating #Gravity

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
-- Aimee Bender

#Sky #Interesting

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 #Sky

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.
-- Ajay Naidu

#Loneliness #Europe #Sky

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!
-- Al Dubin

#Depression #Men #Sky

If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.
-- Al Gore

#Discovery #Sky #Oil

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
-- Al Neuharth

#Confidence #Fall #Sky

We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.
-- Alain de Botton

#Home #Sky #Weather

Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries of aircraft about to take to the skies. These screens implied a feeling of infinite and immediate possibility: they suggested the ease with which we might impulsively approach a ticket desk and, within a few hours, embark for a country where the call to prayer rang out over shuttered whitewashed houses, where we understood nothing of the language and where no one knew our identities.
-- Alain de Botton

#Country #Prayer #Sky

Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
-- Alan Bradley

#Thinking #Sky #Doors

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke rising against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor, or did you just sit down and cry?
-- Alan Jackson

#Sky #Sight #Blue

The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?
-- Alan Watts

#Ignorance #Sky #Knowing

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
-- Alan Watts

#Inspirational #God #Sky

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
-- Albert Camus

#Sky #Lasts

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
-- Albert Camus

#Stars #Night #Sky

Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.
-- Albert Camus

#Believe #Blue #Sky

In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.
-- Albert Camus

#Brother #Light #Sky

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
-- Albert Camus

#Sky #Tree #Looks

I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.
-- Albert Camus

#Eye #Blue #Sky

When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At the slightest breeze, with the smallest ripple in the waters, the lake reflects nothing but itself. To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness. The slightest breeze of judgment or interpretation from the rational mind will create a ripple that shatters Awareness and returns us to ordinary perception.
-- Alberto Villoldo

#Objectivity #Sky #Lakes

On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Sky #Wings #New Day

Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Sky #Navy #Solidarity

The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Drama #Sky #Land

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Sky #Stills

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Fall #Sky #Piano

The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.
-- Aleksis Kivi

#Love Is #Fire #Sky

The darker the walls,the brighter the sky outside.
-- Alex Gaskarth

#Wall #Sky

The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.
-- Alexander Crummell

#Spring #Greatness #Sky

Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light of His face?
-- Alexander MacLaren

#Light #Sky #Might

We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.
-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Memories #Sky #Smell

Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
-- Alexander Pope

#Light #Sky #Spirit

Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
-- Alexander Pope

#Thinking #Sky

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

#Light #Sea #Sky

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
-- Alexander Pope

#Rain #Flower #Sky

It's here somewhere," I assured him. "Please tell me you haven't lost it already." "We did fall out of the sky, you know," I said indignantly. "It's easy for things to go missing.
-- Alexandra Adornetto

#Fall #Sky #Missing

Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.
-- Alfred Billings Street

#Summer #Clouds #Sky

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.
-- Alfred Kreymborg

#Beautiful #Moon #Sky

There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.
-- Alfred Noyes

#Distance #Sea #Sky

I always start a painting with the sky.
-- Alfred Sisley

#Sky #Painting

The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
-- Alice Hoffman

#Stars #Sky #Purple

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
-- Alice Hoffman

#Blue #Sky #Forever

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds ...
-- Alice Meynell

#Spring #Wind #Sky

Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!
-- Alison Croggon

#Sky #Drunk

And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
-- Ally Condie

#Thinking #Sky #Laughing

Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.
-- Amanda Bennett

#Airplane #Sea #Sky

It's a hard life, but it's the only life we have. And sometimes-' he pointed to a bright flash of lightening, its jagged light stretching from the sky to the ground, '-it's still beautiful. Sometimes you find something that makes this all worth it. And when you do, you hang onto it for as long as you can.' He turned to me, shrugging one shoulder. 'That's the best you can do.
-- Amanda Hocking

#Beautiful #Light #Sky

The world has been created for everyone's use, but you few rich are trying to keep it up for yourselves. For not merely the possession of the earth, but the very sky, the air, and the sea are claimed for the use of the rich few... The earth belongs to all, not just to the rich.
-- Ambrose

#Air #Sea #Sky

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.
-- Amelia Earhart

#Airplane #Sky #Tree

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
-- Anais Nin

#Strength #Clouds #Sky

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky
-- Anais Nin

#Sky #Rejection #Rebuttal

The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
-- Anaximander

#Distance #Sky #Space

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
-- Andre Breton

#Men #Color #Sky

A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sky on a summer eve Your heart is tugging at your sleeve, And you cannot say why... There must be more
-- Andrew Peterson

#Summer #Heart #Sky

She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...
-- Angela Carter

#Sky #Eternity #Lost

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Dark #Dust #Sky

No, not under the vault of another sky, not under the shelter of other wings. I was with my people then, there where my people were doomed to be.
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Sky #Wings #People

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Time #Sky #Wings

Green pastures are before me, which yet I have not seen; Bright skies will soon be o'er me, where the dark clouds have been. My hope I cannot measure, my path to life is free, My Savior has my treasure, and He will walk with me.
-- Anna Laetitia Waring

#Dark #Sky #Clouds

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld

#Men #Sky #Soul

I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.
-- Annabel Pitcher

#Sky #Middle Finger #Cases

We didn't speak, just drove out of the city into the countryside on our way to absolutely nowhere, and when we found that perfect spot among the trees, we stopped and looked at each other. Swallows swooped through the red sky, back from their adventure, and we held each other underneath the ketchup clouds, willing time to stop and the world to forget us for a while.
-- Annabel Pitcher

#Adventure #Clouds #Sky

There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When you are human, you discover that there is great power in hating the earth. And it can almost make you fly. But it never will." I had frowned, not quite understanding him. "So, what's the trick?" "Love the sky.
-- Anne Fortier

#Hate #Angel #Sky

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?
-- Anne Frank

#Sunshine #Sky #Long

Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.
-- Anne McCaffrey

#Dragons #Sky #Space

But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.
-- Anne Rice

#Blue #Sky #Shade

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.
-- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

#Sky #Tyrants #Lightning

Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit around and chat until three. Then I hunt some more until sundown, bathe again, put on white tie and tails to keep up appearances, eat a huge dinner, smoke a cigar and sleep like a log until the sun comes up again to redden the eastern sky. This is living…. Could it be more perfect?
-- Annie Dillard

#Sleep #Naps #Sky

The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
-- Ansel Adams

#Integrity #Sky #Quality

How do you catch a beautiful bird without killing it? By becoming the sky.
-- Antero Alli

#Beautiful #Sky #Bird

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.
-- Anthony Anderson

#Fighting #Sky #Firefighter

I hear it still. As I lay down my pen and take to my bed, I am aware of the bow being drawn across the bridge and the music rises into the night sky. It is far away and barely audible - but there it is! A pizzicato. Then a tremelo. The style is unmistakable. It is Sherlock Holmes who is playing. It must be. I hope with all my heart that he is playing for me . . .
-- Anthony Horowitz

#Heart #Night #Sky

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.
-- Anthony Horowitz

#Stars #Sky #Bird

Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Blow #Wind #Sky

You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Stars #Night #Sky

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Winning #Sky #Tree

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Winning #Sky #Tree

Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes...
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Flower #Sheep #Sky

The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Stars #Night #Sky

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Husband #Moon #Sky

I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey

#Sky #Church #Crosses

So how do people listen to music? How do the broad masses listen to it? Apparently they have to be able to cling to pictures and 'moods' of some kind. If they can't imagine a green field, a blue sky or something of the sort, then they are out of their depth.
-- Anton Webern

#Blue #Sky #People

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Sky #Made

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.
-- Antony Hewish

#Team #Sky #Paper

We all drink from one water We all breathe from one air We rise from one ocean And we live under one sky
-- Anwar Fazal

#Ocean #Air #Sky

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.
-- Apolo Ohno

#Dad #Order #Sky

The first thing you discover is a kind of emptiness, a silence, a presence which doesn't seem to have content to it, like looking up at a limitless sky. That boundary-less place inside you is your own consciousness, your awareness. When you relax into it, you realize that it's also full - it is everything. You realize this presence is what you really are: Love.
-- Arjuna Ardagh

#Wisdom #Sky #Silence