Best Gray Skies Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.”

Whole Moments Artist Black Sky Red Blue Busy Gray Blue Sky Rejuvenation Gray Skies

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.”

Way White Sky Edges Track Enormous Lakes Flats Gray Smooth Wagons Gray Skies

Book:The little house treasury

Source: The little house treasury

“Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds”

Light Earth Night Black White Cities Tree Sky Winter Clouds Storm Gray Chicago Boundless Prairie Snowstorms City Lights Monochrome Gray Skies

Author:Barack Obama

“Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.”

Want Wells Looks Littles Loses Sky Blue Gray Wet Gray Skies Marianne Dashwood

Author:Emma Thompson

“His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.”

Fall Fire Sky Color Perfection Snow Silver Gray Fierce Repressed Loveliness Snow Falling Clockwork Prince Gray Skies

Book:Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.”

Littles Feelings Bigs Next Hours Company Knowing Sky Car Couple Solitude Gray Daydreaming Gray Skies

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.”

Thinking Knows World Real Dream Strong Dark Sky This World Color Flower Broken Wings Flight Gray Wounded Sunrise Midnight Breeze Kites Blooming Flower Broken Things Gray Skies

Author:Andrea Gibson

“People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones.”

People Hands Light Past Moving Water Church Dark Walks Sky Stones Saint Clouds Evening Bridges Gray Towers Dusk Gazing Granite Gray Skies

Author:Franz Kafka

“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”

Music Sky Failure Adversity Jazz Lifetime Clouds Passing Passings Gray American Football Sky And Clouds Gray Skies

Book:Music is my mistress

Source: Music is my mistress

“I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die.”

Men Heart Dies Saws Sky My Heart Passing Passings Gray Pearls Oxford Passing By Spires Gray Skies

Author:Winifred Mary Letts

“Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.”

Thinking Men Home Strong Waiting Sky Land Wind Eating Men And Women Breaths Heavy Warm Tea Gray Harsh Drunkenness Beef Deliverance Kettles Ale Stout Thinking Man Gray Skies

Book:To Think of Tea!

Source: To Think of Tea!

“On June 14, 1998, I pushed off under quiet gray skies from Nags Head, N.C, in the American Pearl, a 23 foot long boat made of plywood and fiberglass. I planned to row 3,637 miles across the North Atlantic to France. I was alone. There were no chase vessels. No one planned to drop food or equipment to me along the way. The physical goal was easy to explain: I was attempting to do something no American and no woman had ever done - to row solo across an ocean.”

Way Long Made Done Easy Goal Feet Sky Quiet Ocean Miles Boat France Gray Solo Equipment Pearls Vessel Attempting June Rowing Gray Skies

Author:Tori Murden

“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”

Art Action Culture Opportunity Energy Acting Music Musical Jazz Music Jazz And Blues Pouting Gray Skies

Author:Duke Ellington

“Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be groundless; times such as these are hard for scientists-days of leaden gray skies bringing with them a miserable sense of oppression and inadequacy.”

Years Two Hard Science Sky Evidence Scientist Seeking Oppression Miserable Gray Weary Hypothesis Inadequacy Gray Skies

Book:Advice to a young scientist

Source: Advice to a young scientist

“Stepped out into the cold, collar high, under the slate gray sky. The air was smoking and the streets were dry, and I wasn't joking when I said goodbye.”

Said Air Sky Streets Cold Dry Smoking Goodbye Gray Collars Slate Gray Skies

Author:Ani DiFranco