Astronomy Quote by Havelock Ellis

The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.

— Colum McCann

...But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced…

— Neal Stephenson

On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.

— Walt Disney

the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many. i always believed the lure of flying is the…

— Amelia Earhart

The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to…

— W. H. Auden

Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats…

— Stanislaw Lem

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the…

— Anonymous

They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth,…

— Thomas Arnold

For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

— Anonymous