T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.”
“The sky was as dark as it had ever been. Frozen, exhausted, and out of breath, they fumbled forward together once more. In the end, all they had done was cross from one kind of desolation to another.”
Source: Between Everything and Nothing
“The sky was beautiful that morning. A tumble of fluffy, tufted clouds covered the whole from horizon to dome, as if a shearer had flung a new-shorn fleece high into the air. As I watched, the rays of the rising sun lit the edge of each cloud, turning it silver, until suddenly the fleece became instead a mesh of shining metal.”
Source: Year of Wonders
“The sky was black with vultures, named Depression. They would land on the shoulders of a prisoner and vomit on him... Even worse than the vomit from the vultures was a repulsive slime that these demons were urinating and defecating upon the Christians which they rode... However, this slime made the Christians feel so much better... they easily believed that the demons were messengers of God, and they actually thought this slime was the anointing of the Holy Spirit.”
“The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.”
Source: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel
“The sky was clear and the beat of the waves was almost hypnotic as Helen hung clothes on the line, watching Lyric through the flutters of dresses and blouses. In the child’s outfit of purple, she stood out against the churning waves. Each day, Lyric played in the ocean as if it was her first and last. As though she’d never seen water before, or as though tomorrow it would die and be gone. Its wonder never wore on her and Helen marveled at that, at how many things in this world would leave us utterly astounded if we weren’t so terribly used to them. Fire. Soap. Flavor in food. Though Lyric hadn’t smiled since that first day in the waves, Helen could see the child’s awe whenever she was shown something new. Her eyes would widen, and she’d give a quick gasp. Without a word, the girl had shown Helen how everything was a miracle, everything was sacred.”
Source: The Ocean's Daughter :
“The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. The North Star was directly in the winds eye, and since evening the Bear had swung round it outwardly to the east, till he was now at a right angle with the meridian. A difference of colour in the stars - oftener read of than seen in England - was really perceptible here. The sovereign brilliancy of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shone with a fiery red.”
Source: Far From the Madding Crowd
“The sky was dark and cold as she longed for the one man who could chase away the demons of the night.”
Source: Legend of the Crescent Moon
“The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.”
Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
“The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under.”
Source: File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents
“The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew, to kill me, violent enough to break me apart. The waves were immense, battering rocky beaches without sand. The farther I went, the more desolate it became, more than any place I'd been, but for this very reason the landscape drew me, claimed me as nothing had in a long time.”
“The sky was dripping.
Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn't quite managed. At first, the drops were cool. I felt them on my hands as I walked down from Frau Diller's, in the middle of the road.
Above me, I could hear them.
Through the overcast sky, I looked up and saw the tin-can planes. I watched their stomachs open and drop the bombs casually out.
...
The bombs came down and soon the clouds would bake and the cold raindrops would turn to ash. Hot snowflakes would shower to the ground.”
Source: The Book Thief
“The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.”
“The sky was full of heavy soot-grey clouds, as if providing a celestial echo of Nora's mind, as she wandered around Bedford in search of a reason to exist. The town was a conveyor belt of despair.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“The sky was full of stars against all odds. You couldn't really see shit from The Strip, but that night, you could. You could because she was there.”
Source: Ruckus
“The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship.”
“The sky was growing dangerously light when I left Lestat and made my way to the secret place, below an abandoned building where I kept the iron coffin in which I lie.
This is no unusual configuration among our kind-the sad old building, my title to it, or the cellar room cut off from the world above by iron doors no mortal could independently seek to lift.”
Source: Merrick
“The sky was horribly dark , but one could distinctly see tattered clouds , and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star , and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea : I decided to kill myself that night .”
“The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.”
Source: The Lake
“The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.”
Source: Shades of Grey
“The sky was littered with stars, one graveyard staring down at another.”
Source: Get You the Moon
“The sky was low and broody, but from here, near the treeline, you could see the forest rolling down into the valley, the lake tucked away like a pocket mirror.”
Source: City on Fire
“The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.”
Source: Beyond the City
“The sky was on fire.”
Source: Of Dawn & Embers
“The sky was overladen with stars. If you looked closely there were stars in the grass as well--dew turned to ice on the tips of grass blades.”
Source: The Surrounded
“The sky was pure opal now.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“The sky was so blue I couldn’t look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories,
but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desk
tick tick tick
me not making a sound
and some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind,
but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine.”
“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.”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus
“The sky was so thick with stars it was as if he could reach out and brush them with his hand.”
Source: The Passage
“The sky was stained in hues of pink, purple and orange. Flocks of birds dotted the canvas of Mother Nature’s shades. A gentle autumn breeze kissed our cheeks while fallen leaves skipped past us.”
Source: Train to Mumbai
“The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.”
“The sky was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
Source: Neuromancer
“The sky was the colour of mushrooms and the clouds were the shape.”
Source: Overflowing Nothings and Threadbare Everythings
“The sky was the colour of sad weddings.”
“The sky was the exact filthy gray of a Polaroid just beginning to develop.”
Source: Strange Weather: Four Short Novels
“The sky was white and the earth was black, like at the beginning of time before the first sunrise.”
Source: Beasts of a Little Land
“The sky was white instead of the crazy pink of the night before.”
Source: Let It Snow
“The sky was yellow and the sun was blue.”
Source: 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
“The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do.”
“The sky, with its wealth and grandeur, taught me what opulence truly is.
The sky, with its gold at dawn, taught me, what a new beginning truly is.
The sky, with its blush at sunset, taught me, why lovers whisper at the deepest moments.
The sky with its immensity, taught me, how vast the soul can be!”
“The sky won’t shed tears if stars refuse to shine; it will wait for the sun.”
“The sky would be clear, colorless, mist blending together the air and the ocean, the waves whispering against the rocks.”
Source: Salt & Storm
“The sky wraps us in a chilled blanket of milky stars.”
Source: The Emotional Embodiment of Stars
“The sky's the limit for all Americans if we have the right kind of leadership.”
“The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.”
“The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.”
“The sky, the sky beyond the door is bluuuuuuue!”
“The skylark knows that the Moon is not just a satellite; the drop of Arcturus knows which shell has the capacity to turn it to a pearl; river knows the path to reach the ocean and the morning star knows in which direction it has to glow. In a similar encounter, I know YOU as you have been a part of me since the process of evolution, a part without which 'existence' would not have existed.”
“The skyline is etched in my veins. You can never put that out, no matter how hard it rains.”