Firmament Quotes

71 Firmament quotes by 57 unique authors

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical… — William Shakespeare
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor… — Martin Buber
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In… — John Greenleaf Whittier
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden… — Stephen King
I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night… — Hermann Hesse
She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she… — Garth Stein
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must… — Terry Pratchett
The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cloud Maze. “ An Excursion in Dimension A Climb Though the Firmament; There Is No Beginning There Is No End Enter Where You Please… — Erin Morgenstern
Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments and the psyche's… — Unknown Author
The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down to earth, remolding… — Bertha von Suttner
I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the… — Tycho Brahe
Love builds up the broken wall and straigtens the crooked path. love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on te ocean tides… — Maya Angelou
Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum… — James Thurber
Once a man has imagined the immensity of space, has contemplated evolution and the magnitude of its duration, and has walked through the mighty boulders… — Franklin P Jones
Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and… — Thomas Arnold
What we need most now as Americans is forbearance and tolerance of our fellow citizens who hold views opposite or different than our own. Forbearance… — John Lars Zwerenz
A wise man shall overrule his stars and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. — Jeremy Taylor
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork. -Psalm xix. 1 — Bible

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