Astronomy Quote by Carl Sagan

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and…

— Carl Sagan

“Cities twinkling at night as you drive past them, as if they are fallen constellations of stars.”

— Matt Haig

Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the…

— Frank Drake

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the…

— Jeb Bush

Night falling on the city Quite something to behold Don't it just look so pretty This disappearing world

— David Gray

I used to look out the window of my bedroom as a kid, and there were these stars that, in my mind, made a…

— Helen Mirren

The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.

— Mason Cooley

Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads.…

— Paul Martin

When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place…

— D. H. Lawrence