Sky Quotes
The Moon is slipping from our grasp at a rate of about 1.5 inches a year. In another two billion yea...
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Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is ...
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I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecuewe are unwanted and burni...
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After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the s...
Show MoreNight was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of...
Show Morethe horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky....
Show MoreHe lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of ...
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Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally...
Show MoreWe were at sixty thousand feet. You’re thirty percent lighter upthere.

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.

The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the ...
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For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too...
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And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they...
Show MoreI see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possesse...
Show MoreWhen you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the ene...
Show MoreThe soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
The sky, I thought, is not so grand;I 'most could touch it with my hand!And reaching up my hand to t...
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Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a...
Show MoreI've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated....
Show MoreThe sky is an enormous man.
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing...
Show MoreI painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely t...
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There is the sky, which is all men's together.
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and b...
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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
Evil is the starry sky of the Good.
O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let u...
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,The bridal of the earth and sky;The dew shall weep thy fall t...
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She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of ...
Show MoreShe might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that so...
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It was one of those bitter mornings when the whole of nature is shiny, brittle, and hard, like cryst...
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes...
Show MoreWhen the young womanleans over the sky,about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,her white fro...
Show MoreThe cloudless day is richer at its close;A golden glory settles on the lea;Soft, stealing shadows hi...
Show MoreSo through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the ...
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What I saw was just one eyeIn the dawn as I was going:A bird can carry all the skyIn that little but...
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The sky both exists and doesn’t exist. It has substance and at the same time doesn’t. And we merely ...
Show MoreThe sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of ni...
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I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have n...
Show MoreIt was grey windless weather, and the bell of the little old church that nestled in the hollow of th...
Show MoreThe sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.
The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I ...
Show MoreThank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can ...
Show MoreSometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...
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The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...
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Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...
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The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...
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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that ...
Show MoreSometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together al...
Show MoreMars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky wa...
Show MoreRain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
It doesnot matter; there’s many a heavenly body in the lot crowding upon us ofa night that mankind h...
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Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
My experiences remind me that it's those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.
...knowing too that [the sky] was just a kind of rainbow made it glorious. A rainbow that was blue e...
Show MoreI once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of t...
Show MoreThe eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the ...
Show MoreHe was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a f...
Show MoreEllen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa...
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...yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a go...
Show MorePassion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at grou...
Show MoreGod and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves w...
Show MoreEvery month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and ...
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One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion sta...
Show MoreI have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
The future is in the skies.
The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recogn...
Show MoreNow there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then - our cities and towns cast too much light into ...
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There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized...
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Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everyth...
Show MoreI was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a cit...
Show MoreAt night the sky is pure astronomy.

...That Great Cocktail Cabinet in the Sky...

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die Lift not your ...
Show MoreThe artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the ea...
Show MoreThe evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orang...
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If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... t...
Show MoreThe stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible
The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and prese...
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natu...
Show MoreWhen you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! Yo...
Show MoreTwilight was laying claim to the cité, and the sky was a deepening shade of lavender, spangled with ...
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Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the day...
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None of them knew the color of the sky.

The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen someth...
Show MoreThe sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin t...
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The sky of the color of ashes in the east and embers in the west.
Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possibl...
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