Sky Quotes
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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A red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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The sky is still the limit and trees still grow and the seasons come and go and all of the beautiful things we've got around us, they're still here.
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The connoisseurs sniff, categorise, rank, price, demote. Celadons, the colour caught between green and blue, get sky after rain, and kingfishers, and iced water, all of which are lyrical.
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The sky was the colour of sad weddings.
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How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky.
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Washington is in the clear upper sky.
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Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.
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I don't know what the universe is all about, but to me, nothing is gained by slapping a God sticker on it. It has never been a comfort to me to believe there's an all-seeing eye in the sky.
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We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky.
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It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.
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My father tried to discourage me from going into comedy, mainly because he felt like it wasn't promising. It was pie in the sky.
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Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.
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Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.
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There is the great ocean below, and the great sky above, and nothing between me and pure possibility.
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I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me.
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day I day.
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Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
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A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.
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Winter lay among the Outer Hebrides. Day was a sullen glimmer between two darknesses, often smothered in snow. When it did not fling itself upon the rocks and burst in freezing spume, the North Atlantic rolled in heavy and gnawing. There was no real horizon; leaden waves met leaden sky and misty leaden light hid the seam.
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Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.
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As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.
