Best loss & sky Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!”

Said Two Country Loss Environment Generations Sky Missing Summer Spring Blue Wings Soil Visible Embodiment Kindred Dwellers Bluebird

Book:Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

Source: Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

“The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.”

Loss Sun Sky Tears Evening Dew

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.”

Men Has Beens Beautiful Night Loss Sky Moon Anxiety Shining Disaster Mars Splendid Trinity Venus

Author:Janet Flanner

“[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple; it is a privilege to see so much confusion.”

Stars Loss Sky Privilege Storm Disaster Confusion Grass Salt Whirlwind Marshes Stars In The Sky Steeples

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“But tonight I finally made the connection that change always strolled hand in hand with loss, with upheaval, and that I would always feel it keenly because in the end, I did not live under the same sky as most other people. (p179)”

People Feels Made Ends Hands Loss Sky Connections Tonight Hand In Hand Upheaval

Author:Meera

“I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.”

Philosophy Faces Grows Loss Tree Sky Consequence Errors Eras Permanent Adoption Penalties Conservatism New Era

Author:Warren Buffett

“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent.”

Mind Running Loss Sky California Buried Mentality Immense Continents Suspicion Uneasy Suspension

Book:Slouching towards Bethlehem

Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem

“If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss.”

“She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.”

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

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