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Quotes About Luminaries

Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.
~ Ray Bradbury
We are quite definitely here as representatives of the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking Persons
~ Douglas Adams
All the stars stay hidden behind the daylight.
~ Reetwika Banerjee
If the sun and moon should doubt, They'd immediately go out.
~ William Blake
It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else.
~ Elinor Lipman
I like famous people!
~ Poppy
the purpose of Genesis was to refute pagan beliefs involving worship of the sun, other luminaries, or pagan deities. In other words, Genesis is allegedly teaching us not to worship the sun but our true God who made the sun. (As
~ Jonathan Sarfati
If this is a straightforward historical account, God created evening, morning, and days without luminaries and then created luminaries in order to effect them.83 Are we really to conclude that the division occurs without the dividers? It seems reasonable to assume that the narrator has offered a dischronologized presentation of the events in order to emphasize a theological point. God is not dependent on the luminaries.
~ Bruce K. Waltke
Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much that he died every night to let her breathe.
~ Anonymous
Some of the more sought-after signers are, in no particular order, presidents, military heroes, sports icons, actors, singers, artists, religious and social leaders, scientists, astronauts, authors, and Kardashians.
~ Carrie Fisher
As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, or Irving Fisher - made public statements anticipating the Great Depression.
~ Robert J. Shiller
There was dust everywhere: dust on the cracked and rheumy window; dust over the drugget that made shift as Mr. Guyle's carpet; dust on the framed portraits of my lords Eldon, Coke and other luminaries that hung on the wall; and dust, it may be presumed, in the ventricles of Mr. Guyle's ancient legal heart.
~ D. J. Taylor
The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.
~ W.H. Auden
Above us, the constellations spun, and the moon paved her weary course.
~ Madeline Miller
Stars have their moments then they die.
~ Nick Cave
Dense clouds have swallowed the moon and stars—the
~ Paula McLain