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Quotes About Stars

To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light.
~ Edmund Waller
What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!
~ George Edward Woodberry
The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
~ Marianne Moore
Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.
~ Jacob Bronowski
What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
~ Courtney Love
Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
~ Randolph Scott
Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning
~ W. S. Merwin
All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!
~ George Eliot
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.
~ John Steinbeck
The morning sky is a thought of the stars.
~ Will Advise
Now the frosty stars are gone: I have watched them one by one Fading on the shores of Dawn. Round and full the glorious sun Walks with level step the spray Through his vestibule of Day.
~ Bayard Taylor
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
~ David McCullough
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.
~ James Truslow Adams
One lamp — thy mother's love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
~ William Shakespeare
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine
~ Edgard Varese
The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
~ Wernher von Braun