Points Of Light Quotes - Page 2

• Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It's the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space with wonder, just as we do.

  Frank Drake

  Stars, Lying, Home

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• In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Children, Light

  "Small, Cheap and a Giant Leap for Britain". www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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• Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wall, Real, Light

  Jeanette Winterson (1991). “Sexing the Cherry”, Vintage

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• I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don't know how to play. Those are the points of light, the former students.

  Rafe Esquith

  Kids, Light, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars.... And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a star but really close. The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light.... The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It was a kind of religious experience. There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Stars, Book

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• The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Stars, Dark

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• You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Mother, Wall, Book

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• We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

  Neil Young

  Gun, Men, Light

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