Sky Quotes - Page 30

One should herd the entire intelligentsia into a mine and then blow it sky-high.

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared.

Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.

So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives way to form: every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky. New vistas, obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up.

When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy.

A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.

A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird flies in the sky, and no matter how far it flies there is no end to the air. However the fish and the bird have never left their elements. Thus each of them totally covers its full range, and each of them totally experiences its realm... Know that water is life and air is life. The bird is life and the fish is life. Life must be the bird and life must be the fish... practice, enlightenment and people are like this.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

We want our happy little clouds to float across the sky

Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.

No matter how far apart we are, don't forget that we're still under the same sky, both traveling to the place we once dreamed of.

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.

On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

Comets importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars.

The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.

We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Nature will survive us, we've been wrong after all. We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song?

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms