Astronomy Quotes · Page 81

Every once in a while, it seems like the cosmos part, and something great plops into your lap.

— Don Felder

“Adrift in a sea of madness, the sextant is broken, but I can still see the stars.”

— Jack G. Bowman

I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.

— Harrison Ford

“They say it is possible to see stars from the bottom of a well when the sun is shining.”

— Robert Byron

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.

— Anonymous

Its a million stars to create a GALAXY, but it only takes YOU and ME to create INFINITY

— Anonymous

We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine.

— Michel Quoist

I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

— Jacqueline Cochran

Stars was really good training. You know, we would come in at noon, and, you know, we would learn at that time…

— Steve Ells

That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things.…

— Kathleen McGowan

As a navigator, I started studying astronomy because sometimes you're not able to use the equipment, so you'd have to do it…

— Melvin Van Peebles

Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It…

— Richard Dawkins

Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom?…

— Jim Morrison

In this world you've a soul for a compass And a heart for a pair of wings There's a star on the…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .

— Alfred North Whitehead

“stars are out, It’s time for bed. Now close your eyes, And rest your head. May angels shield you with their wings,…

— M. Lathan

Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of…

— Alan Watts

Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the…

— George Wald

Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it…

— Ming-Na Wen

“Tara looks up at the blanket of stars. She wonders, if one exploded, would all the other stars wobble in their orbit?…

— Lindsey Lane

My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of…

— Anonymous

“Is the sun the biggest object in space?" he asked me in an even, determined voice. I had to think about that…

— Mariana Zapata

When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening…

— Thomas Carlyle

“So. Our little pearl of warmth, our spinning orrery of lives, our island, our beloved solar system, our hearth and home, tight…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“You were a luminescent star in the darkened sky that became my universe.”

— Truth Devour

Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.

— Isaac Asimov

Loving you is like trying to touch a star, I know I can never reach you, but I can't help but try.

— Anonymous

“The brighter stars emerge out of the blackest darkness.”

— Shri Radhe Maa

“In the effort to reach the stars and change the world, make sure you touch a heart and change a life.”

— Stella Payton

I want every piece of me to crash into every piece of you; I swear to God thats how they make stars.

— Mary Lambert

I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.

— Antal Szerb

Reach for the moon, 'cause even if you miss you land among the stars.

— Uknown

“I would like a window seat,” I said, imagining the stars streaming by.”

— Ken Liu

I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in

— Frank Stanford

“The Christian is the one whose imagination should soar beyond the stars.”

— Anonymous

“The universe does not shed tears when a star falls from the sky; it gives birth to another one.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.

— Michio Kaku

“If there are no stars on the sky, you must try to be happy with the shining streetlights!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“How you ever gonna reach the stars If you never get off the ground?”

— Big Time Rush