Clear Blue Sky Quotes

• How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Blue, Sky, Humanity

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• Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

  Henry Hazlitt

  Thinking, Journey, Feet

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• It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Mean, Blue, Essence

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• Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

  Leon Trotsky

  Beautiful, Wall, Air

  Leon Trotsky (1977). “Writings of Leon Trotsky: 1939-40”, Pathfinder Pr

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• I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

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• Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

  Nelson Mandela

  Wall, Clouds, Blue

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.297, Pan Macmillan

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• Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Blue, Sky, Soul

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• 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.

  Zicheng Hong

  Dark, Blue, Sky

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• God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’

  Louie Giglio

  Ocean, Sunset, Night

  Louie Giglio, Stuart Hall (2011). “Wired: For a Life of Worship Leader's Guide”, p.31, Multnomah

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• There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.

  Damon Galgut

  Morning, Blue, Sky

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• I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to a battleship with 400 kilos of explosives in the cockpit. Of course it is true that the pilot would be killed, but everything would blow up, and that's what counts.

  Jules Vedrines

  Blow, Sky, Blue

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• If Ford is to Chevrolet what Dodge is to Chrysler,
  what Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties,
  what the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea,
  what Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong -
  can you doubt we were made for each other?

  Lyle Lovett

  Corn Flakes, Blue, Sea

  Song: Here I Am

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• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

  Barry Manilow

  Song, Writing, Sky

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.

  Janet Morris

  Love, God, Men

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.358, Paradise Publishing

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• Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

  William Hazlitt

  Heart, Thinking, Blue

  William Hazlitt (1871). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”, p.250

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• You may think that those aeroplanes in this city on 9/11 came out of a clear, blue sky. I believe they emerged out of a swamp of hatred created by us.

  George Galloway

  Believe, Blue, Sky

  "Galloway and Hitchens rouse New York crowd" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2005.

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• Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies. Good bye blue skies.

  Roger Waters

  Running, Fall, Brave New World

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