Sky Quotes - Page 20

• Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, 'What on earth are you doing?' The sparrow replies, 'I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.'The warhorse sneers-- 'Do you really think you're going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?' And the sparrow says, 'One does what one can.'

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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• The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

  Oswald Chambers

  Giving, Vision, Castles

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.395, Discovery House

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• Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace am I.

  Rumi

  Flower, Night, Infinite

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Rubaiyat Of Rumi”

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• I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not the sky as it is but the sky as he felt it. And the more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Artist, Want, Needs

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• Munroe stared at the sky. Cursed her weakness, her inability to block out what it would mean to knowingly deliver the innocent into the same hell that had birthed her to life. In this moment of decision she condemned to death the one she would risk anything to save. To the night, Munroe whispered good-bye. Opened the floodgates to Gehenna-that place of the wicked, that place of the dead-and here in this deserted spot, she buried her soul.

  Taylor Stevens

  Block, Mean, Night

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• . . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color . . . only man wants always God should be there to condemn this one and save that one. Always it is man who wants to make heaven and hell. God is too busy training the bees to make honey and every morning opening up all the new flowers for business.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Morning, Flower, Men

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• The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [...]After the end of the stars uselessly whitened in the morning sky and the breeze became less cold in the barely orange tinged in the yellow of the light on the scattered low clouds, I, who hadn't slept, could finally, slowly raise my body, exhausted from nothing from the bed from which I had thought the universe.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Morning, Stars

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• Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape. It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know, Have always known, know that we can't escape, Yet can't accept. One side will have to go. Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring Intricate rented world begins to rouse. The sky is white as clay, with no sun. Work has to be done. Postmen like doctors go from house to house.

  Philip Larkin

  Doctors, Light, White

  Philip Larkin, “Aubade”

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• "I do not believe that Jesus, at the end of his earthly sojourn, returned to God by ascending in any literal sense into a heaven located somewhere in the sky. My knowledge of the size of this universe reduces that concept to nonsense."

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Believe, Heaven

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• I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

  Thomas Hood

  Ignorance, Dark, Boys

  1826 'I Remember'.

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• The Gods on the death of his wife Yang Kai-hui I lost my proud poplar and you your willow As poplar and willow they soar straight up into the ninth heaven and ask the prisoner of the moon, Wu Kang' what is there. He offers them wine from the cassia tree. The lonely lady on the moon, Chang 0, spreads her vast sleeves and dances for these good souls in the unending sky. Down on earth a sudden report of the tiger's defeat. Tears fly down from a great upturned bowl of rain.

  Mao Zedong

  Lonely, Rain, Wine

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• Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods, and exemplary like the emperors Shun and Yao. A scarlet rain of peach blossoms turned into waves and emerald mountains into bridges. Summits touch the sky. We dig with silver shovels and iron arms shake the earth and the Three Rivers. God of plagues, where are you going? We burn paper boats and bright candles to light his way to heaven.

  Mao Zedong

  Spring, Rain, Land

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.

  J. G. Holland

  Heaven, Ladders, Earth

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.55

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• Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England

  A. E. Housman

  Good Night, Sea, Land

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• Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

  Francis Parkman

  Clouds, Light, Air

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.29, VM eBooks

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• Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.

  Wendell Berry

  Sleep, Eye, Heart

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.180, Counterpoint Press

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• The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

  Rumi

  Giving, Suffering, Earth

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• And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Blue, Joy, Serenity

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.96, 1st World Publishing

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• Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It's like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really 'arrive,' but we certainly know that we're heading in the right direction.

  Brené Brown

  Stars, Trying, Destination

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• Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here

  Robert M. Fresco

  Ocean, Depth, Earth

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• A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Fire, Rocks, Bangs

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• Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts.

  J. Cole

  Baby, Pain, Believe

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• What meaning have you found? What truth do you claim? For what purpose are you living? Life itself raises these questions. How can anyone help asking 'what' and 'why' when surrounded by an infinite sky?

  Ron James

  Live Life, Purpose, Asking

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• So happy just to be alive,
  Underneath the sky of blue,
  On this new morning, new morning,
  On this new morning with you.

  Bob Dylan

  Morning, Blue, Alive

  Song: New Morning, Album: New Morning, 1970

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• Eyes of gentianellas azure,
  Staring, winking at the skies.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Azure, Winking

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.11

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