Sky Quotes
3929 Sky quotes by 2211 unique authors
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Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.
— Robert Breault
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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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As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.
— James Callaghan
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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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The birds laugh loud and long together When Fashion's followers speed away At the first cool breath of autumn weather. Why, this is the time,…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their…
— Kathleen Raine
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And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick…
— Hart Crane
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There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom,…
— Terry Pratchett
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As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some…
— Celia Thaxter
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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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Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich And your mama's good lookin' So hush…
— George Gershwin
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And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the…
— Dana Gioia
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Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives…
— Gaston Bachelard
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Our soul lives in Peace and lives for Peace. If we live a life of peace, we are ever enriched and never impoverished. Unhorizoned is…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up…
— Alan Sillitoe
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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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In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon…
— John Ruskin
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The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh…
— Vera Nazarian
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Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot…
— Anthony Anderson
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When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her…
— William C. Bryant
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
— Lucretius
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