Sky Quotes - Page 32

• When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.

  Garth Brooks

  Peace, Ocean, Special

  Song: We Shall Be Free, Album: The Chase, 1992

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• [Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Beautiful, Heart, Light

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• Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.

  Bill Anderson

  Art, Media, Magic

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• Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Men, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.214, Broadview Press

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• Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

  Arthur Koestler

  Science, Technology, Reality

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Distance, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1325, Delphi Classics

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• I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

  Patti Smith

  Poetry, Storm, Dawn

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.

  Patti Smith

  Believe, Fate, Sea

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.73, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..

  Alan Jackson

  Sight, Blue, Black

  "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)". Song by Alan Jackson, November 26, 2001.

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• Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.

  Ray Davies

  Gun, Light, Unions

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• O' beautiful, for spacious skies
  But now those skies are threatening
  They're beating plowshares into swords
  For this tired old man that we elected king.

  Don Henley

  Beautiful, Kings, Tired

  "Song: 'The End of the Innocence'". 1989.

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• The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.

  Anita Shreve

  Fall, Heart, Law

  Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown

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• Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

  Cat Stevens

  Religious, Fall, Men

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• We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

  Brian Andreas

  Stars, Science, Night

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• I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had.

  Uri Geller

  Light, Wish, Ufo

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We're getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all.

  Nina Hagen

  Mother, Jesus, Leader

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• How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson

  Aberjhani

  Peace, War, Earthquakes

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.

  Hannah Szenes

  Song, Peace, War

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• It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

  Simone Weil

  Nature, Light, Roots

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• All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

  Paul McCartney

  Philosophy, Together, Realizing

  Song: Get On The Right Thing, Album: Red Rose Speedway

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• Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the reasons why, this is how creation goes.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Philosophy, Wine, Ebb And Flow

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• Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.

  Don McLean

  Dream, Philosophy, Mountain

  Song: Castles in The Air

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• I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.

  Avril Lavigne

  Philosophy, Wind, Arms

  Song: Touch The Sky

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• I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.

  Michelle Branch

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Ocean

  Song: Drop In The Ocean, Album: The Spirit Room, 2001

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• The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Dark, Light

  Song: Death is Not The End, Album: Down In The Groove, 1988

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