Moon And Stars Quotes - Page 2

• How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green... the flowers are more fragrant... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Nature

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• It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.

  Fannie Heaslip Lea

  Stars, Moon, Destiny

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• Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Moon, Men

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• All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his eyes he saw light and shadows; through his mind he was aware of moon and stars.

  Hermann Hesse

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, pp. 45-46, 1922.

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• Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.

  Alan Watts

  Stars, Moon, Reality

  Alan Watts (2003). “Become what You are”, p.126, Shambhala Publications

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• Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Stars, Moon, Sky

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• He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me.

  Carolyn Meyer

  Stars, Moon

  Carolyn Meyer (2002). “Doomed Queen Anne: A Young Royals Book”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Stars, Moon

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• Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stars, Lying, Moon

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• So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Stars, Moon

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Silence

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Stars, Moon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.32, North Atlantic Books

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• The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a charter of equal rights as appears in said Constitution, ought to be treated by those to whom the administration of the laws is entrusted with as much sanctity as the prayers of the Saints are treated in heaven, that love, confidence, and union, like the sun, moon, and stars, should bear witness.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Wise, Stars, Freedom

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• There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

  George Henry Borrow

  Life, Sweet, Brother

  'Lavengro' (1851) ch. 25

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• Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. 'Rejoice,' came the soft voice of Lady Dance in my mind. 'Watch the moon and stars...' Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.

  Jackie French

  Song, Stars, Moon

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• As the Little House settled down on her new foundation, she smiled happily. Once again she could watch the sun and moon and stars. Once again she could watch Spring and Summer and Fall and Winter come and go. Once again she was lived in and taken care of. Never again would she be curious about the city... Never again would she want to live there... The stars twinkled above her... A new moon was coming up... It was Spring... And all was quiet and peaceful in the country.

  Virginia Lee Burton

  Summer, Country, Stars

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• My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.

  Lady Hester Stanhope

  Nature, Stars, Moon

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• The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Stars, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.192, Penguin

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• It was magic, I felt the bond between us.
  She was a jelly to my peanuts, Mars to Venus,
  The Earth to my sun, moon and stars,
  We added up mathematically...
  It's like I had a bad habit, B!

  Ghostface Killah

  Stars, Rap, Moon

  Song: The Center of Attraction

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• Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Summer, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.436

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• One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.

  Rachel Carson

  Summer, Night, August

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• I'm spiritual! You know what spiritual means! Me and God has a good relationship. I'm in tune with the universe, the sun, moon, and stars. I'm in tune with the jinns that are all around us.

  Ghostface Killah

  Spiritual, Stars, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.

  Arthur Machen

  Dream, Stars, Moon

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.212, Delphi Classics

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• Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live.

  Walker Evans

  Religious, Stars, War

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• ... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

  Edna O'Brien

  Country, Stars, Flower

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