Sky Quotes
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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.
George Eliot
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Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just don't vote on quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, why the sky is blue, or anything else.
Alan Stern
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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.
Hermann Hesse
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The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker, twenty feet high or more, was rushing on to us. It was on the break-the moon shone on its crest and tipped its foam with light. On it rushed beneath the inky sky, driven by the awful squall behind it.
H. Rider Haggard
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The sky was the colour of sad weddings.
Scarlett Thomas
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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John Ruskin
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When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.
Eva Ibbotson
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Perhaps people only exist in my thoughts Perhaps the sky only exists in my mind. When will I wake up and to what
Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa
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Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.
Chanda Kochhar
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Marriage is like a 5,000- piece jigsaw of the sky.
Cathy Ladman
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The mighty Rain Holds the vast empire of the sky alone.
William Cullen Bryant
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What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?
Camille Flammarion
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I sold 'Hattie Big Sky' without an agent but quickly realized a writing career required an agent.
Kirby Larson
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The sky was yellow and the sun was blue.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
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When I look up to the sky between the narrow roofs, it reminds me of you, the one who is far, far away.
Masashi Kishimoto
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I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me.
James Turrell
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There had been rain but it had stopped, and the light from a luminously clouded sky was pewter-bright, and puddles on the road were shivering in the wind, and the rooks above the trees in St Anne's Park were being tossed about the air like scraps of charred paper.
John Banville
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'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.
Lord Byron
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At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
Albert Camus
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And indeed, as night drew on the sky like a bodice, lacing it with the last beams of sunlight
Catherynne M. Valente
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I never get tired of the blue sky.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.
Emily Dickinson
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If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.
Mother Teresa
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Does everyone grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up. "Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. "Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up towards the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." "What happens to them?" insisted Milo. "Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've heard that they walk among the stars." And with that he skipped off once again toward the waiting woods.
Norton Juster