Best Skies Quotations
438 Skies quotes by 334 unique authors
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In Chapel Hill among a friendly folk, this old university, the first state university to open its doors, stands on a hill set in the…
— Unknown Author
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Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up safely…
— Celia Thaxter
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Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to…
— Moby
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Clear skies will mean you are happy. Rain will mean you're crying. Sunset means you are embarrassed. Night will mean you are gently holding me.
— Mika
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And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
— Alexander Pope
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When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the…
— John Haynes Holmes
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The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands…
— J.R. Miller
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Bryce Zabel and I went down the road of revising the Kennedy historical record together on the NBC seriesDark Skies. This time instead of giving…
— Melissa Rosenberg
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We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state…
— Alain de Botton
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When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.
— Abraham Isaac Kook
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...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered…
— Mark Helprin
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The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process of fulfilling their…
— Paul Hawken
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of…
— Alexander Pope
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Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget…
— William Wordsworth
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner…
— John Henry Newman
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A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer…
— Earl Hamner, Jr.
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We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one…
— Alice Meynell
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Reach your ambition as high as the skies! Dream it as high as the skies! Because if you're fell, you're gonna fall among of the…
— Sukarno
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Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with…
— Homer
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On that bright and cloudless morning when the dead in Christ shall rise. And the glory of His resurrection share. When His chosen ones shall…
— Unknown Author
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Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than…
— Edward Dowden
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All green and fair the summer lies, Just budded from the bud of spring, With tender blue of wistful skies, And winds that softly sing.
— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for…
— John of the Cross
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