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Sky Quotes - Page 49

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.

Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising

Alexandre Dumas (2010). “The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 6âle Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome 6: English-French Parallel Text Edition in Six Volumes”, p.264, Lulu.com

The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1956). “The complete Greek tragedies”

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.81, Vintage Canada

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.47, Diversion Books

Religion, richest favor of the skies.

William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.55

It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.319, Vintage

the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.

Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.87, Knopf

Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1971). “Poems and problems”, McGraw-Hill Companies

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions