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Skies Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
- 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…
- No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What…
- Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
- Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,…
- In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,…
- The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd…
More Skies Quotes
- We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at… — Buzz Aldrin
- Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone;… — Mao Zedong
- Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that… — Wernher von Braun
- The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I… — John Keats
- These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter… — Henry Van Dyke
- If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain.… — Henry Van Dyke
- Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with… — Douglas MacArthur
- Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the… — Unknown Author
- When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars… — Unknown Author
- Do me a favor... Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this,… — Backseat Goodbye
- Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and… — Charles Dickens