Best towns & sky Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.”

Source: The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life

“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

“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

“In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.”

Ends Language Lines Sky Towns Rhyme Barrels Fuse Dynamite Sky High

Author:Vladimir Mayakovsky

“The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.”

Firsts Said Pain Night Left Saws Sky First Time Towns Awake Touching Throat Sucker Breathless Touching You

Book:Live for a Living

Source: Live for a Living

“Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.”

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.”

“A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday.”

Source: Sombrero Fallout

“They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.”

Fall Hours Tree Sky Wind Quiet Bird Towns Hot Breaths Clouds Squares Earthquakes Lunchtime Portents

Book:Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

“You're in a rather odd mood today." I'm soaking wet, Eloise." No need to snap at me about it, I didn't force you to walk across town in the rain." It wasn't raining when I left,". There was something about a sibling that brought out the eight-year-old in a body. I'm sure the sky was gray," Clearly, she had a bit of the eight-year-old in her as well.”

Needs Years Wells Body Today Left Force Bits Walks Sky Rain Towns Eight Mood Odd Gray Wet Sibling Snaps Soaking Eloise

Author:Julia Quinn

“A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin' at our favorite spot in town and you looked at me, got down on one knee. Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle; the whole town came and our mammas cried. And you said "I do.", and I did, too. Take me home where we met so many years before; we'll rock our babies on the very front porch. After all this time, you and I. And I'll be eighty-seven you'll be eighty-nine, I'll still look at you like the stars that shine. In the sky. Oh, my my my.”

Years Looks Said Stills Whole Home Stars Gone Sky Rocks Fronts Baby Mets Towns Shining Seven True Love Nine Spots Knees Take Me Cried Eighty Aisle Porch Front Porches Take Me Back

Author:Taylor Swift

“Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth.”

Home Sky Taste Mouths Red Towns Lips Tongue More Time Ashes Tempted Snowflake

Book:The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

“...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?”

Should Looks Dream Asks Stars Black Sky Future Towns Shining France Maps Village Representing Dots

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to look again. There were only the roofs of the lower part of the palace and the town and the city walls. Beyond those were the hills on the far side of the Tustis Valley and the faded blue sky above them. It wasn't what the king saw that was important, it was what he couldn't see when he sat at the window with his face turned toward Eddis.”

Looks Important Faces Sides Views Cities Darkness Saws Sky Wall Kings Summer Window Towns Blue Hills Sat Valleys Roof Palaces Stairs Faded Blue Sky Framed Homesickness Far Side City Walls

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.”

Life Looks Sky Towns Down And These Days Hipster Margo Roth Spiegelman

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.”

Ifs Knows Made Enough Hands Eye Turns Dark Behinds Sky Drink Thousand Lucky Gold Essence Towns Green Belly Purple Altars Liquor Herbs Flare Mardi Gras Glow In The Dark Chartreuse

Author:Poppy Z. Brite

“Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies. Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears, More and more do I realize: I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall. I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. I love Paris every moment, Every moment of the year. I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris? Because my love is near.”

Years Looks Moments Fall Realizing Love Is Sky Tears Summer Towns Blue Winter Loud Paris Gray Cheer Timeless Springtime Drizzle

Author:Cole Porter

“I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of a town. These streets with their houses did not exist, they were but a ludicrous projection of the moon's sumptuous personality. This was a city of Pretend, created by the hypnotism of moonnight. -- Yet when I examined the moon she too seemed but a painting of a moon and the sky in which she lived a fragile echo of color. If I blew hard the whole shy mechanism would collapse gently with a neat soundless crash. I must not, or lose all.”

Source: The Enormous Room

“Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.”

Knows Beautiful Faces Rich Sky Fields Towns Blue Green Grass Dull Brown Yellow Pale Bedroom Twists Blades Vivid Somewhere Else Sunny Palette Blades Of Grass Suffocating

Author:Lisa Ann Sandell

“There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.”

Men Children Play Night Sky Dignity Horse Madness Towns Sticks Insight Riding Night Sky Fiery

Author:Rumi

“...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.”

Children Whole Night Universe Sound Sleep Pleasure Air Tree Sky Color Wind Bed Summer Ears Towns Lays Add Fruit Winter Architecture Gentle Climbs Shade Lungs Playgrounds Icy Boiling Snowy

Book:The Martian Chronicles

Source: The Martian Chronicles

“In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.”

Long Country Sky Towns Praise Rome

Author:Horace

“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.”

Love Dies House Challenges Sky Streets Industry Towns Pollution Traffic His Love Acid Choke Rubber Smog

Author:John Steinbeck

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