![I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty [...] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, "Did there used to be stars there?](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-trembled-to-think-of-a-world-without-stars-no-guide-for-the-sailor-to-trust-at.jpg)
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stars thinking think-big
But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star. Chris Elliott
stars thinking law
I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons. Chris Farley
stars goal gold
If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Chris Evans
stars sky fire
Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost! Charles Spurgeon
stars children names
You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.
stars drama way
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off. Dick Wolf
stars past thinking
They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage. Dick Van Dyke
stars jobs guarantees-that
Being a movie star is a rare job. Nobody gives you any guarantees that you'll get to do it forever. It's a very lucky and privileged position to be in. Diane Keaton
stars writing men
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
children issues quality
The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life. Alexandra Paul
children fire burned
How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned? Alexandra Adornetto
children embracing happened people
Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children? Rod Blagojevich
children
Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools. Malorie Blackman
children others
Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
children help
We're not doing anything to help those children excel. Luke Selking
children overlook research tends
like a lot of research tends to overlook children in some areas.
children connect designed night parents
Lighted Schoolhouse Night is designed to connect the parents and the children with the school.
children prepared sun time watch work
Let us, in short, do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over, we will all watch the sun go down -- as we all must -- and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn. Bill Clinton
growing-up school expectations
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work. Chris Crutcher
growing-up way bumpy-roads
Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.
growing-up children parenting
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
growing-up tvs grows
I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV. Diane Kruger
growing-up hero growing
I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up. Dennis Ritchie
growing-up parent age
To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate. Dennis Prager
growing-up influence chicks
Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up. Debra Wilson
growing-up mean political
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. Eleanor Roosevelt
growing-up climbing habit
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up Elbert Hubbard