Clouds Quotes - Page 12

• Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Blessing, Forever

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.396

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• The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

  Charles Dickens

  Moon, Night, Wind

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7065, Delphi Classics

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• A memory from my youth comes back to me. You go into the woods on a bike, with a girl. There is the smell of heather, you can hear the wind in the fir trees, you don't dare tell her about your love, but you feel happy, as if you were floating above the ground. Then you look at the clouds beyond the trees and they are fleeting. And you know that within an hour you'll have to go home, that tomorrow will be a working day. You wish you could stop that moment forever, but you can't, it is bound to end. So you take a photo, as if to challenge time.

  Robert Doisneau

  Girl, Memories, Home

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• Do you wanna be a poet and write? Do you wanna be an actor up in lights? Do you wanna be soldier, and fight for love? Do you wanna travel the world? Do you wanna be a diver for pearls? Or climb the mountain, and touch the clouds above? Be anyone you want to be. Bring to life your fantasies. But I want something in return, I want you to burn, burn for me, baby. Like a candle in the night. Oh burn, burn for me, burn for me.

  Jo Dee Messina

  Baby, Writing, Fighting

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• The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Missing, Liberty

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.632, Wordsworth Editions

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• It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.

  Robert Browning

  Mad, Earth, Lasts

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.519, Wordsworth Editions

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• A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple-green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven.

  Washington Irving

  Moving, Air, Blue

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.277, Penguin

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• I wish to be
  an inspector of volcanoes.
  I want to study cloud formations
  and memorize the wind
  and learn by heart the habits of
  the ponderosa pine.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Heart, Volcanoes

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• Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear. No, heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just for us to find it here.

  Garth Brooks

  Philosophy, Heaven

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• Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth
  A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud
  Enveloping the Earth.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Light, Issues, Soul

  'Dejection: an Ode' (1802) st. 4

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• Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving Up, Rain, Weather

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.217, Modern Library

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• The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Flower, Heart

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 11

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• On land off an ice covered sea the traveler can, for example, detect the presence of open water, simply because it reflects less light than land or ice. The open sea's telltale sign is thus a darkness on the underside of the clouds.

  Harold Gatty

  Light, Ice, Sea

  Harold Gatty (2013). “Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

  Marcus Aurelius

  Opportunity, Gone, Use

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• Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
  And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
  Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
  On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
  A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
  The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
  And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
  Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Rain, Past

  Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”

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• Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped believing in such a being they had therefore stopped believing in God, so many who were taught to think of hell as a literal underground location full of worms and fire...decided that when they stopped believing in that, so they stopped believing in hell. The first group decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of God, they must be atheists. The second decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of hell, they must be universalists.

  N. T. Wright

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

  "Surprised by Hope". Book by N. T. Wright, 2007.

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• And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dark, Fighting, Land

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.

  Leonard Michaels

  Stars, Believe, Ocean

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• I am very annoyed about this issue. Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don’t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn’t realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men I’ve been out with.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "Life After ‘Sex’". www.nytimes.com. January 19, 2012.

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• A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From the first clang of the rail to the last clang of the rail. Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days. The three extra days were for leap years.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Dark, Years, Fifty

  "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, www.nytimes.com. 1963.

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• I finally found me a cloud to float on.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Found, Floats

  Song: Burn After Rolling, Album: Burn After Rolling, 2009

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• Creation isn't forcing or commanding something into existence. It's more of a rolling over, a good stretch, blissing out, lying on the grass watching the flowers blowing in the breeze or the clouds floating by.

  Esther Hicks

  Lying, Flower, Rolling

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• We were one of the first states to move most of our email into the cloud. That's gone really, really well; I think it's exceeded expectations. When we think about doing major information technology projects in this state, the default is cloud.

  Mike Powell

  Moving, Technology, Thinking

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• I have need of the sky,
  I have business with the grass;
  I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling
  Lone and high,
  And the slow clouds go by.
  I will get me away to the waters that glass
  The clouds as they pass.
  I will get me away to the woods.

  Richard Hovey

  Glasses, Sky, Water

  Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College

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• It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for himself and his fellow man. The painter will look around him . . . and finding everything good, will strive to communicate that feeling through a portrayal of the essentials of sunlight, or snow, or tree or tragic cloud, or human face, according to his power and individuality.

  J. E. H. MacDonald

  Writing, Men, Artist

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