Starlight Quotes

64 Starlight quotes by 54 unique authors

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
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
Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee. — Stephen Foster
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. I am… — Edward Abbey
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
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
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
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
Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold. — Hermann Weyl
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… — Unknown Author
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
Even goats may have starlight in their eyes. — Robert W. Service
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
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
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
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone. — William Butler Yeats
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
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
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
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
I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I… — Black Elk
Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all. — John Greenleaf Whittier
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few… — Brian Greene
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight,… — Black Elk

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