Animal Quote by Anonymous

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and…

— Ovid

“And while the other creatures on all fours Look downwards, man was made to hold his head Erect in majesty and see the sky,…

— A. D. Melville

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

— Ovid

The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our…

— Edmund Waller

“When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to…

— Ovid

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him…

— Alfred Noyes

This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven.

— Stephen Charnock

Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In a beautiful night, under the stars, man always feels himself above the sky, beside the God!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“And he told stories about the stars above, about the earth below. He told them to make the night pass, and also because his…

— Jean Giono

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his…

— John Dryden

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of…

— Galileo Galilei