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Sky Quotes by Charles Dickens
- Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long…
- Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
- But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,…
- There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was…
- The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself…
- And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded…
- He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying…
- [I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.
- It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper…
- The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops…
- The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and…
- And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done--…
- Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of…
- Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers…
More Sky Quotes
- You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. — Paul Auster
- Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky,… — Sai Baba
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- Music fathoms the sky. — Charles Baudelaire
- More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose… — Cecil Beaton
- Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. — Augustine Birrell
- Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a… — Lewis Black
- This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. — James Agee
- Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. — Arna Bontemps
- You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be… — Bertolt Brecht
- When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is… — Gwendolyn Brooks