Stars Quotes - Page 3

• Stars are the daisies that begem
  The blue fields of the sky.

  David Macbeth Moir

  Blue, Sky, Fields

  David Macbeth Moir (1852). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir”, p.157

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• No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

  Plato

  Eye, Heaven, Might

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• I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

  Mike Tyson

  Dream, Inspirational Sports, Clouds

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• Love is the mystery of water and a star.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love Is, Water, Mystery

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• Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

  H. G. Wells

  Trouble, Gravity, Time Machine

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Time Machine”, p.71, eKitap Projesi

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• When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

  Virginia Woolf

  Matter, Affair, Seems

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.170, Virginia Woolf

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• People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book X, (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.

  George Eliot

  Tree, Golden, Fruit

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2704, ShandonPress

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• Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

  Kanye West

  Fall, Clouds, Land

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• O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.

  Lord Byron

  Beautiful, Thinking, Air

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• Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

  H. G. Wells

  Distance, Past, Space

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Time Machine”, p.71, eKitap Projesi

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• And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny. We don't matter. We're here for a second and then gone the next. We're a sneeze in the life of the universe.

  Danny Wallace

  People, Gone, Matter

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe”, p.6, Random House

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• Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Writing, Talking

  Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Crush

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

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• We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.

  Arthur Eddington

  Atheism, Gone, Matter

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• You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

  John Green

  Life, Grateful, Romantic Love

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.148, Penguin

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• How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wedding, Memories, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I am drinking the stars

  Dom Perignon

  Drinking, Wine

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• All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

  Megan Hart

  Men, People, Different

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• Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Night, Atoms

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

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• Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.

  Casey Robinson

  Movie, Moon, Great Year

  1942 Line delivered by Bette Davis to Paul Henreid in Now, Voyager.

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• My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

  John Green

  I Hate You, Green, Faults

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.176, Penguin

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• One naked star has waded through
  The purple shallows of the night,
  And faltering as falls the dew
  It drips its misty light.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Fall, Night, Light

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.147, Indiana University Press

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• Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

  Carl Schurz

  Love, Change, Sports

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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