Top 1200 Starry Sky Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?

Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground!

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?

The sky is the limit now, us women are showing that we can beat men and hopefully it will open more doors.

Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground - to die.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]

We humans have always looked to the sky as a sounding board for asking big questions about ourselves: Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going?

That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

I have memories of the clearest crystal mountain days imaginable, when we fortunates in the height seemed to be sky people living in light alone.

I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn't speak.

The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

Dream Song of Thunders: Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky.

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.

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

No matter how far apart we are, don't forget that we're still under the same sky, both traveling to the place we once dreamed of.

I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

I like to get home, flop on the couch, and watch Sky Sports News. I'm just your average bloke.

I'm not one of those people who goes home and has to put football on the TV straight away or has to watch Sky Sports News.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

If I were rain, That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch, Could I join two hearts as well?

If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight.

Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky; wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back

taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out like drifting moths under the rich hazy light, and as the fantastic symphony wept and exulted and wavered and despaired, Ardita's last sense of reality dropped away, and she abandonded her imagination to the dreamy summer scents of tropial flowers and the infinite starry spaces overhead, feeling that if she opened her eyes it would be to find herself dancing with a ghost in a land created by her own fantasy.

Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

Republicans tend to be more steadfast in their allegiance, and Democrats read one headline in the 'New York Times,' and the sky is suddenly falling.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast.

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

The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.

Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye From thee takes timely warning. Nor trusts the gorgeous sky.

The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.

The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.

From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.

A beautiful poem is like a beautiful sky and a beautiful sky is like a beautiful poem!

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn

Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky.

When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.

Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.

Your kindness cannot be said. You open doors in the sky. You ease the heart and make God's qualities visible.

This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.

It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.

I've stood outside my house in Montana looking at the northern lights... crackling against the night sky. To me, that's magic.

As for trying to feed off a mouthful of sky, it's a large mouth, hence there's nothing to worry. I wish good luck to everyone.