Stars Quotes - Page 25

• It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

  George Gamow

  Men, Years, Atoms

  George Gamow (2012). “The Creation of the Universe”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot

  Parker Stevenson

  Boys, Careers, People

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• But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

  John Thorn

  Dream, Boys, Men

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• Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Being Yourself, Unique, Champion

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• At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

  Sadie Frost

  Girl, War, Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cities at daybreak are no one's,
  and have no names.
  And I, too, have no name,
  dawn, the stars growing pale,
  the train picking up speed.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Cities, Names, Dawn

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• Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

  Annie Jump Cannon

  Study, Structure, Classifying

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• Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

  Umberto Saba

  Light, Sky, Evening

  Umberto Saba (1998). “Songbook: Selected Poems from the Canzoniere”

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• Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Past, Destiny

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• It is important that we have the inner richness to be able to look up at the stars or the moon and compose a poem once in a while. When we open wide our minds and fix our gaze on the universe, we fix our gaze on our own life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Moon, Mind, Important

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• Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us, curiosity to inspire us, hours free for meditation, words to place our thoughts in order, the question like a restless ghost has prowled the cellars of our consciousness.

  Robert Ardrey

  Dream, Men, Thinking

  Robert Ardrey (1977). “The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man”

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• What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

  Shana Alexander

  Life, Movie, Running

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• Do whatever you please, follow your own star; be original if you want to be and don’t if you don’t want to be. Just be natural and gay and light-hearted and pretty and simple and overflowing and general and baroque and bare and austere and stylised and wild and daring and conservative, and learn and learn and learn. Open your mind to every form of beauty.

  Constance Spry

  Gay, Simple, Light

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• Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Soul, Cheerful

  1802 'Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour', complete poem (published 1807).

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• Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. Ghosts sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the god of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the god is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958

  Mao Zedong

  Life, Weed, Men

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.89, Univ of California Press

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• I'm weary of conjectures, - this must end 'em.
  Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life,
  My bane and antidote, are both before me:
  This in a moment brings me to an end;
  But this informs me I shall never die.
  The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
  At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
  The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
  Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
  But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
  Unhurt amidst the war of elements,
  The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Crush, War

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

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• Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.

  John Gould Fletcher

  Life, Death, Wall

  John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.172, University of Arkansas Press

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• In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream- that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and night, So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day-star?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Dream, Lonely

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1853). “The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.105

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• From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under groups. This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of stars in constellations.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Dawn

  Charles Darwin (1861). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.358

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• We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

  Alan Chadwick

  Life, Spiritual, Nature

  Alan Chadwick (2008). “Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture”, Logosophia

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• Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!

  William Davenant

  Eye, Light, Climbing

  William Davenant, “Morning Song”

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• O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day.

  Robert Browning

  Dark, Sea, Clouds

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• In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night, under the full moon, they dream, they float among the stars and wonder at the miracle of the heavens. They are inspired. Without dreams there is no art, no mathematics, no life.

  Michael Atiyah

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Michael Atiyah (2014). “Michael Atiyah Collected Works: 2002-2013”, p.267, Oxford University Press, USA

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• So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

  John Milton

  Morning, Ocean, Flames

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 166

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• From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

  John Milton

  Summer, Fall, Noon

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 742 (1667)

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