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Quotes About Blue

If a woman is in trouble, she should always wear blue for protection. Blue shoes or a blue dress. A sweater the color of a robin's egg or a scarf the shade of heaven.
~ Alice Hoffman
It's so cold that Shelby thinks her fingers inside her gloves are turning blue. Maybe they'll turn to sugar candy and break off and there'll be a fairy-tale ending when one taste of her sugar-stick fingers will cure Helene.
~ Alice Hoffman
Its pattern of blue flowers and leaves had gone silvery. Kath fastened her eyes on these, while they tied Kent up in knots and he didn't even realize it.
~ Alice Munro
In the drawing a thick blue line separated the air and ground. In the days that followed I watched my family walk back and forth past that drawing and I became convinced that that thick blue line was a real place—an Inbetween, where heaven's horizon met Earth's. I wanted to go there into the cornflower blue of Crayola, the royal, the turquoise, the sky.
~ Alice Sebold
In the drawing a thick blue line separated the air and ground. In the days that followed I watched my family walk back and forth past that drawing and I became convinced that the thick blue line was a real place - an Inbetween, where heaven's horizon met Earth's. I wanted to go there into the cornflower blue of Crayola, the royal, the turquoise, the sky.
~ Alice Sebold
Do you know what O'Keefe Says about blue? he asked her, blowing out a cloud of smoke, warming to her voice, though he did not remember her face clearly from the opening night's exhibition. What? That it is the color that will remain after everything is destroyed.
~ Alice Walker
Television concentrates its blue flicker of death in the frontal lobe
~ Allen Ginsberg
that blue flame burnning? Industry!
~ Allen Ginsberg
Why do the motorcyclists wear black jackets ?why not brown or blue ?
~ Alvin Toffler
Let the red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies And all is through.
~ Ambrose Bierce
FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. The sea was calm and the sky was blue; Merrily, merrily sailed we two. (High barometer maketh glad.) On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout, The tempest descended and we fell out. (O the walking is nasty bad!) Armit Huff Bettle
~ Ambrose Bierce
And what eyes they were. Calm and blue as deep water. Bright as stars. Hard as hammered iron. And ruthless as a backstreet knifing. Javre
~ Joe Abercrombie
The beard was actually less Dumbledore, more Hemingway, but the eyes behind the lenses of his glasses were a brilliant shade of blue that naturally suggested a man who could cast runes and speak to trees. Harper
~ Joe Hill
Blue gives us an impression of cold, and thus, again, reminds us of shade. We have before spoken of its affinity with black.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I knew you read the Symposium in the vac," he said in a low voice. Maurice felt uneasy. "Then you understand - without me saying more - " "How do you mean?" Durham could not wait. People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered, "I love you.
~ E. M. Forster
Remember nothing of the sort! Built by faith indeed! That simply means the workmen weren't paid properly. And as for the frescoes, I see no truth in them. Look at that fat man in blue! He must weigh as much as I do, and he is shooting into the sky like an air- balloon.
~ E. M. Forster
But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.
~ E.M. Forster
The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.
~ E.M. Forster
People at Stettin drop things into boats out of overhanging warehouses. At least, our cousins do, but aren't particularly rich. The town isn't interesting, except for a clock that rolls its eyes, and the view of the Oder, which truly is something special. Oh, Mrs. Wilcox, you would love the Oder! The river, or rather rivers—there seem to be dozens of them—are intense blue, and the plain they run through an intensest green.
~ E.M. Forster
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space. South
~ Edward Abbey
Stars which are unusually bold and close, with an icy glitter in their light—glints of blue, emerald, gold.
~ Edward Abbey
My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue.
~ Anonymous
Sweet home AlabamaWhere skies are so blueSweet home AlabamaLord, I'm coming home to you.
~ Anonymous
Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green;When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes