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Sky Quotes by Ovid
- When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see…
- In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.
- Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.
- All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his…
- Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named…
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