Sky Quotes - Page 30

• ... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged to attribute our prosperity and general success among nations, to that sort of action. In my opinion, hard work and dedication to logic and reason ought to be recognized as the reasons for our achievements, not appeals to a mythical friend-in-the-sky. We got where we are in spite of, not because of, those incantations.

  James Randi

  Prayer, Hard Work, Dedication

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• Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spring, Winter, Exercise

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

  Dale Carnegie

  Nature, Children, Eye

  Dale Carnegie (1948). “How To Stop Worrying and Start”

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• God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water, for the everlasting hills and the never resting winds, for trees and the common grass underfoot. We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of the summer fields, and taste of the autumn fruits, and rejoice in the feel of the snow, and smell the breath of the spring. Grant us a heart wide open to all this beauty; and save our souls from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thorn bush is aflame with your glory.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Summer, Running, Song

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• The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of the salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars.

  Chief Dan George

  Morning, Nature, Stars

  Chief Dan George, “My Heart Soars”

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• Love sets your heart free. Be not afraid: dig deep, Take a deep breath And reach for the sky In your lover's heart.

  Laura Ramirez

  Cute, Heart, Lovers

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• I convinced him his luggage had gone to that big Bermuda Triangle in the sky.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.

  Henry Cuyler Bunner

  Nature, Tree, Doe

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• The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, God, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.381, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be groundless; times such as these are hard for scientists-days of leaden gray skies bringing with them a miserable sense of oppression and inadequacy.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Years, Two

  Peter Brian Medawar (1979). “Advice to a young scientist”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms into unions - exactly as united now, Why then confess you must That other worlds exist in other regions of the sky, And different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts.

  Lucretius

  Men, Moon, Other Worlds

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Alban Dewes Winspear (1956). “De Rerum Natura”, New York : Harbor Press

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• If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand by me.

  Ben E. King

  Friendship, Fall, Sea

  FaceBook post by Ben E. King from Mar 13, 2017

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• You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright.

  Lisa Loeb

  Friendship, Stars, Moon

  Song: Alone, Album: Tails

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• Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

  Tom McCall

  Hero, Responsibility, People

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• But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky

  Robert Hunter

  July, San Francisco, Heaven

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• I won't cry cause I live to die, with my mind on my money and my guns in the sky.

  Ja Rule

  Sadness, Gun, Mind

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• I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Real, Lying, Sadness

  Song: Torn, Album: Left of the Middle

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• Let the rain falling on your face run into your eyes. Can you see the rainbow now through the stormy skies?

  Avril Lavigne

  Running, Rain, Fall

  Song: Two Rivers

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• Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Sadness, Sorrow, Tears

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• When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Sadness, Sleep, Night

  Song: Somewhere Out There

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• The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.

  John Steinbeck

  Fall, Tails, Stories

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• Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

  Homer

  Laughter, Absurd, Shakes

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.47, Homer

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• The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.

  Aeschylus

  God, Winning, Majesty

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1956). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace.

  Robert Ardrey

  Father, Home, Lakes

  ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”

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• When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Stars, Eye, Light

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