Milky way Quote by Carl Sagan

“Her milk sprayed across the skies and formed what he today know as the Milky Way.”

— Birgit Amadori

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

— Philip Pullman

“the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in…

— Herman Melville

“Lying spread-eagled in the silky water, gazing into the sky, only moving my hands and feet slightly to keep afloat, I was looking at…

— Gerald Durrell

“And the Milky Way belted heaven with ice and silver, and the Magellanic Clouds were not vague shimmers but roiling and glowing; and the…

— Poul Anderson

“She watched Malachy curl his long fingers around a lock of Layla's straight hair, gently caressing it as he mused on the origins of…

— Marsha Mehran

“That night, though, far out into the North Atlantic, there were no lights to be seen, for there was no shipping. The deep-water lanes…

— Robert McFarlane

“To-night, as ages hence, people would say this, or shut their doors on them, turn in bereaved agony from them, or toward them with…

— Malcolm Lowry

“I leaned back on my palms, looking at the Milky Way spilling in modest grandeur across the sky. A fountain of stars frothing over,…

— Leah Raeder

“Ethereal mist lingered across the hushed landscape, shrouding a round moon, gossamer swans dancing across a lake of pearl. Yet, while it was a…

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“This time of night, the sky was flung wide open, stars spread like a story across the horizon.”

— Jodi Picoult

“some like to imagine a cosmic mother watching through a spray of stars, mouthing 'yes, yes' as we toddle towards the light, biting her…

— Tracy K. Smith