Best Sky Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 13

“As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.”

Years Said Philosophy Home Evil Sky Ethics Hundred Towns Philosopher Good And Evil Roman Philosophers

Author:Jostein Gaarder

“Who knows the tryst a man keeps with the wind and sky.”

Knows Men Sky Wind

Author:Gordon MacQuarrie

“We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.”

Shows Energy Sun Sky Working It Fusion Handy Solar Energy

Author:Elon Musk

“There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly.”

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light. The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town.”

Light House Nature Sleep Morning Air Sky Streets Healthy Angel Towns Breaths Blue Clouds Brilliant Shops June Passengers Blue Sky

Book:The Old Curiosity Shop

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop

“The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.”

Made Eye Lying Nature Sleep Sky Green Staring Laziness Going To Sleep Brightness

Book:Master Humphrey's Clock

Source: Master Humphrey's Clock

“He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.”

Source: THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens

“But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply.”

Beautiful Water Nature Walks Tree Sky Wind Rivers Blue Surface Ran Streams Pleasant Touching Delicious Lilies Water Lily

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.”

Source: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export

“"We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever constant and true - till we are eighty, ninety, or one hundred. And then the fairies will send US children, and we will help them out, poor pretty little creatures, if they pretend ever so much."”

Ifs Inspirational Children Littles Helping Hands Waiting Poor Sky Changed Creatures Hundred Constant Ridiculous Fairy Ninety Eighty

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

“Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge - that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit that all have equal rights; when thought is untrammeled; when worship shall consist in doing useful things; when religion means the discharge of obligations to our fellow-men, then, and not until then, will the world be civilized.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will rise until it matches the 3,000-degree rarified outer layers of the expanded Sun.... But not to worry. We will surely go extinct for some other reason long before this scenario unfolds.”

Long Reason Earth Worry Sun Sky Degrees Surface Layers Expansion Extinction Temperature Scenarios Orbit

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky.”

Born Sun Sky Fans Planets Moon Combination Venus Mercury Pseudoscience Jupiter Saturn Pluto Neptune

Book:The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Source: The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

“There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you're the monarch of your own skin - your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.”

Dream Waiting Struggle Path Sky Revolution Becoming Skins Urgent Monarchs

Author:Hakim Bey

“If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!”

Ifs Causes Sky Moon Footprint

Author:Adam Young

“Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.”

Writing Dream Sky Color Music Is Tasting Writing Music

Author:Adam Young

“Look, up in the sky! It's the sky!”

Looks Sky Look Up

Author:John Flansburgh

“Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.”

Way Sky One Way Shade

Book:The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“Love means to reach for the sky and with every breath to tear a hundred veils. Love means to step away from the ego, to open the eyes of inner vision and not to take this world so seriously”

World Mean Eye Vision Steps Sky This World Tears Ego Hundred Breaths Veils Love Means

Author:Rumi

“When you are feeling down, look at the skies. You are not always alone.”

Looks Feelings Sky Feeling Down Always Alone

Author:EunB

“It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.”

People Feels Art Able Sky Fine Blind Painful

Book:Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus

“Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present. They have been accustomed to move and to meet in all manner of ways. For this reason, it came to pass that being spread abroad through a vast time and trying every sort of combination and motion, at length those come together that produce great things, like earth and sea and sky and the generation of living creatures.”

“The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them - and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species. That's the source of my indignations, my dissatisfactions, however it comes out on the stage. I feel betrayed by the people I'm part of, these creatures, these magnificent creatures.”

“World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.”

World Persons Country Sky Solve Pie Single Person

Author:Herbie Hancock

“Once you get your education it's going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky's the limit. So that's what I want to deliver to students.”

Want Doors Sky Students Limits Sky's The Limit

Author:Jerry Rice

“If you can't get your core audience to watch the show, it's very hard to then pull in enough people outside of your fan base to your network. The networks are just so branded now; USA can't really do a dark despairing drama and FX can't do a blue-sky show. People watch the networks they watch.”

People Ifs Hard Enough Shows Dark Watches Audience Sky Fans Drama Blue Core Usa Blue Sky Branded

Author:Warren Leight

“Don't ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling.”

Turns Sky Ceilings

Author:Rita Zahara

“The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.”

Looks Would Be Behinds Steps Sky Theory Doctrine Steps Forward Factual

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.”

Source: Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.”

Way Sometimes Hands Eye Lying Wonder Sky Expression Becoming Spread Superiors Cows Arrested Monotony Superior Intelligence

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!”

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.”

May Feet Sky Achieve Dangerous Worship Bible Sublimity Feet Off The Ground

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.”

Men Nature Sky Cry Moon Empty Instant Climbing Lamentation

Book:The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

Source: The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

“You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.”

Looks Earth Night Stars Wonder Sky Planets Moon Romantic Look Up Cosmos Romantic Love Planet Earth Night Sky Most Romantic

Author:Tom Hanks

“Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy...”

Love Said God Lord Clear Sky Lows God Love Stormy