Sky Quotes
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I came from the projects. So there were times I'd wake up at night, and my palms would be itching to get out. But no matter where I was, I always looked at the stars, because there's nothing ugly about the sky. That was my escape.
Sidney Royel Selby III
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She named him after the Dog Star, the brightest star in the night sky.
Alan Russell
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The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.
Aleksis Kivi
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I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But in New York City you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere. ...Sky is not a common commodity.
El Anatsui
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In the black sky no star is seen, somewhere in ambush lurks the Angel of Death, but the spices tongues of the masqueraders are loose and shameless A shout: 'Make way for the hero!' Ah yes. Displacing the tall one, he will step forth now without fail and sing to us about holy vengeance...
Anna Akhmatova
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Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.
Haruki Murakami
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And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.
Pablo Neruda
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Sextants that divided the sky into angles not found in the usual geometries, microscopes whose hermetically sealed lenses distorted the viewed object into shimmering rainbow images, other instruments whose complexity and manifold adjustments quite overwhelmed my powers of speculation as to their use
K. W. Jeter
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The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.
Charles Dickens
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But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky
Robert Hunter
Grateful Dead
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Every star, whether it's Harrison Ford or Robert De Niro, is remembered by one film. Persis is a star in the sky - how can a star be forgotten when all you have to do is look up and see her?
Persis Khambatta
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Silence fell between the four of them as they looked up at the sky. There was no sign of movement, the stars stared back, unblinking, indifferent, unobscured by flying friends. Where was Ron? Where were Fred and Mr Weasley? Where were Bill, Fleur, Tonks, Mad Eye, Mundungus?
Joanne Rowling
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There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.
Rumi
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On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared forever.
Arnaud Desjardins
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Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.
Thomas Hood
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Music fathoms the sky.
Charles Baudelaire
