Starlight Quotes
64 quotes by 54 authors
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A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and…
— Kenneth Rexroth
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Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the "organic" molecules that…
— George Wald
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Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.
— Stephen Foster
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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight.…
— Edward Abbey
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Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon,…
— Charles Lamb
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When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he…
— Anton Chekhov
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One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight - brilliant,…
— Hermann Weyl
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I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on…
— Ayn Rand
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Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.
— Hermann Weyl
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Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies…
— Debi Gliori
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Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a…
— Frances O'Roark Dowell
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Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.
— Robert W. Service
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Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate…
— George Ellery Hale
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Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not…
— Willa Cather
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
— William Butler Yeats
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I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never…
— Michio Kaku
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Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power…
— Madeleine L'Engle
Who Wrote These Starlight Quotes
54 authors contributed a total of 64 Starlight Quotes, led by these top contributors: