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Source: Fragmentary remains, literary and scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, bart., late president of the Royal society, etc: with a sketch of his life and selections from his correspondence

“The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky”

Night Dark Darkness Feet Sky Moon Red Blue Seven Tall Weed Stalking Blue Sky Lace

Author:William Carlos Williams

“If Ford is to Chevrolet what Dodge is to Chrysler, what Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties, what the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea, what Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong - can you doubt we were made for each other?”

Ifs Made Clear Doubt Sea Sky Blue Posts Corn Blue Sky Armstrong Dodge Flakes Hank Williams Chrysler Chevrolet Clear Blue Sky Blue Sea Made For Each Other Deep Blue Sea Corn Flakes

Author:Lyle Lovett

“My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it’s supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there’s this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow – and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.”

“There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.”

Happens Behinds Moral Morning Clear Sky Built Blue Leaving Strikes Theme Lightning Blue Sky Wreckage Clear Blue Sky

Author:Damon Galgut

“Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping — anon — anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone.”

Joy Gone Sky Mountain Rain Army Blue Clouds Ill Snow Hills March Defeated Sailing Fountain Prevailing Blue Sky Anon

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!”

Heart Felt Sky Blue Blue Sky Witchery

Book:The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc

Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc

“Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.”

Persons Freedom Inspiring Tree Sky Conditions Bird Blue Tea Blue Sky

Book:Anger

Source: Anger

“At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.”

Mind Pain Fall Liberty Sky Figures Mountain Bird Blue Clothings Balloons Fall Back Blue Sky Resolute Spatial Sailboat

Book:Time and the Art of Living

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of the earth linger on your tongue, reach out and embrace those you love. Ask Spirit to awaken your awareness to the sacredness of your sensory perceptions.”

Source: Simple Abundance

“My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft wind. The weather was perfect that summer. No storms. Blue skies and just the right amount of wind every day. The sailors were in heaven.”

Night Heaven Perfect Rooms Sea Sky Wind Amount Ocean Summer Blue Storm Weather Sailor Blue Sky Turrets

Author:Katherine Page

“We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Would Be Fighting Sky Blue Look Up Dull Pledge Blue Sky Monotony

Book:The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds

Source: The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds

“Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights. Since then we've lived in sunshine and in shadow, and although we can never unsee what happened here, we can also see that children who lost their parents have grown into young adults, grandchildren have been born and good works and public service have taken root to honor those we loved and lost.”

“I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to a battleship with 400 kilos of explosives in the cockpit. Of course it is true that the pilot would be killed, but everything would blow up, and that's what counts.”

Would Be Courses Clear Sky Blue Blow Aviation Pilots Dropping Port Explosives Blue Sky Air Power Airpower Dropping Out Cockpit Clear Blue Sky

Author:Jules Vedrines

“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.”

Men America Sky Blue Breathe Covered Grey Fog Blue Sky Isle Emeralds

Book:The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass

Source: The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass

“War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.”

“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.”

Knows World Way Believe Hard Sky Blue Crash Existential Blue Sky Hard To Believe Recurring Pestilence

Book:The plague: translated from the French

Source: The plague: translated from the French

“There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.”

Feels Moments Moving Sky Gratitude Window Blue Clouds Sincere Blue Sky Deep Gratitude Sincere Gratitude

Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

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