Clouds Quotes

• ...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Horse
  • Angel

• The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.

  

  Sebastian Coe
  • Clouds
  • Limitation

• Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Actions
  • Clouds
  • Covers

• Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • God
  • Clouds
  • Veils

• the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

  

  Anaximenes of Miletus
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Wind

• The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Book
  • Rain
  • Flying

• You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • Time
  • Money
  • Waiting

• No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.

  

  William Habington
  • Glory
  • Birth
  • Distinction

• The warming we've experienced in the late 20th century could just as easily be explained by small decreases in cloud cover - natural changes in the system - and have nothing to do with CO2.

  

  Willie Soon
  • Natural
  • Century
  • Decrease

• When one peels away dark clouds, one exposes the sun; as a result, the ten thousand things cannot hide their shapes.

  

  Ge Hong
  • Result
  • Clouds
  • Shapes

• Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

  

  Demosthenes
  • Truth
  • Secret
  • Denial

• Gray and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above these storm clouds. Grace lets us see life from God's point of view.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • God
  • Perspective
  • Grace

• How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!

  

  George Croly
  • Clouds
  • Queen
  • Throne

• The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . . . then a cloud drifted across the moon. . . . They were gone.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Air
  • Moon
  • Clouds

• The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Wind
  • Clouds
  • Pursuit

• In thinking back to when we had our big glitch, I remember seeing it get light outside the window. We were in the clouds; I'm pretty sure we got hit by lightning.

  

  Pete Conrad
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Pretty

• Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• So one day he found her crying Coiled up on the dirty ground Her prince finally came to save her & the rest you can figure out But it was a trick & the clock struck twelve Well make sure to build your home brick by boring brick or the wolf's gonna blow it down Keep your feet on the ground When your head's in the clouds.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Feet
  • Clouds
  • Save

• What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Forget
  • Pleasure
  • Talent

• Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

  

  Mary Todd Lincoln
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Heaven

• Contrails are denser and block sunlight much more than natural cirrus clouds.

  

  David Travis
  • Sunlight
  • Denser
  • Contrails

• The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• I, like everybody else, have a certain fear of heights, and I have to be very careful when I am in the clouds, but it is also what I love; it is my domain, so when you love something, you don't have fear.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Fear
  • Clouds

• Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble after you have been inside a really thick one for a few minutes. In the very early days of aviation, 1912 to be correct, I emerged from a cloud upside down, much to my discomfort, as I didn't know how to get right way up again. I found out somehow, or I wouldn't be writing this.

  

  Charles Rumney Samson
  • Writing
  • Trouble
  • Flying

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