Quotes about sky
sky feet lakes
As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard, -rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, 'It must be good powder.' All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes. Henry David Thoreau
sky milk earth
I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.
sky america healthy
Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline. Jeff Goodell
sky financial fireworks
Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. James Buchan
sky lasts imagine
The last I checked, 'Titanic' worldwide has grossed $1.3 billion. Imagine how much more it would have grossed if I had gotten the sky correct, James Cameron
sky palms spread
This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. James Agee
sky circles shining
Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on. James A. Garfield
sky world moments
And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky. James A. Baldwin
sky yang earth
Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly. Jada Pinkett Smith
sky people shining
The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people. Franz Grillparzer
sky bird flying
We're flying free like birds in the sky, because we're ALIVE. Jessie J
sky silence solitude
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon. Jean-Paul Sartre
sky sun silent
A sky full of silent suns. Jean Paul
sky doors want
Once you get your education it's going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky's the limit. So that's what I want to deliver to students. Jerry Rice
sky devil desert
The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Then, little by little, the plants of the desert begin to identify themselves: the porcupiny yucca, the beaver tail and prickly pear and barrel cacti, buckhorn and staghorn and devil's fingers, the tall, sky-reaching tendrils of the ocotillo. Jerry Spinelli
sky sun fusion
We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day. Elon Musk
sky horizon shells
The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles. Evelyn Waugh
sky fire tree
A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled. Eudora Welty
sky rivers water
Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.
sky aliens wells
Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again. Iain Banks
sky religion doe
In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with a national religion like that of England, from whom we had just separated. It is curious how little understood this amendment is-yes, everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does not have the right to impose his beliefs on others who do not happen to share in his superstitions and taboos. Gore Vidal
sky safe empty
How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky? Gillian Flynn
sky given robust
The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women! Friedrich Nietzsche
sky envy granted
It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress. Galileo Galilei
sky evil starry-sky
Evil is the starry sky of the Good. Franz Kafka
sky brave grace
May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile. George Eliot
sky arms radiant
He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all. F. Scott Fitzgerald
sky blue formal
Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings. George V. Higgins
sky tree soldier
Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch against the sky with branches brown and bare. George R. R. Martin
sky earth way
Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.
sky two abyss
We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky. Fernando Pessoa
sky joy brotherhood
The foundation upon which our nation stands is much richer and firmer than the sympathies that may occasionally divide us. And we never know this more truly than in Christmas time. In good times or in bad, under clear skies or under the shadow of uncertainty, the Christmas message is the imperishable one of joy, hope and brotherhood. Ferdinand Marcos
sky clouds poetry
What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it! And nothing more. Don't you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is. Federico Garcia Lorca