Firmament Quotes

71 Firmament quotes by 57 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament;… — Sam Walter Foss
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
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
Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament. — Amos Bronson Alcott
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
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
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. — Paracelsus
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
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
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
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
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
But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament. — William Shakespeare
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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