Firmament Quotes
71 Firmament quotes by 57 unique authors
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Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but…
— Nikola Tesla
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He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.
— Phil Donahue
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Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light…
— Charles Dickens
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The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within…
— Henry David Thoreau
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To one who has been long in city pent, ’Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe…
— John Keats
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Indian business women like Indra Nooyi, Chanda Kochhar, Naina Lal Kidwai, Shikha Sharma, Swati Piramal, Anu Agha, Swati Piramal, Sulajja Firodia Motwani and Zia Mody…
— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.…
— William Hazlitt
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But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places…
— Christopher Pearse Cranch
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The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fairy tale creatures, which suddenly flew away…
— Marc Chagall
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There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament;…
— Sam Walter Foss
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How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on…
— John Muir
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My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way—…
— Emily Dickinson
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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There were many stars in Motown's firmament - among them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and Diana Ross - but I happen to…
— Jon Landau
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it…
— James Madison
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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
— Paracelsus
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the…
— Paracelsus
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As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
— Friedrich Schiller
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As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.
— Martin Buber
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs…
— Victor Hugo
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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints…
— Victor Hugo
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But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.
— William Shakespeare
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This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living…
— Allen Ginsberg
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