Astronomy Quote 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…

— Anonymous

“And while the other creatures on all fours Look downwards, man was made to hold his head Erect in majesty and see the sky,…

— A. D. Melville

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and…

— Ovid

In a beautiful night, under the stars, man always feels himself above the sky, beside the God!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him…

— Alfred Noyes

I am not astonished that men who lean, as it were, on an atom, should stumble at the smallest efforts they make for discovering…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

— Plato

“When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to…

— Ovid

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars,…

— Donald Miller

Astronomy compel the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

— Plato

God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us in his…

— William Cowper

“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his…

— Cormac McCarthy