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Quotes About Stars

More heavenly than those flashing stars seem to us the endless eyes that the night opens up within us.
~ Novalis
This was one night she would see all the stars and the moon as the sun rose, when there was that peculiar mingling of past and tomorrows, when the sun glanced cross the sky to the moon hoverin over the telephone wires, and everyone else was ignorant of the powers of light and the dark.
~ Ntozake Shange
Cause all of the stars, Have faded away Just try not to worry, You'll see them someday, Take what you need, And be on your way and Stop crying your heart out
~ Unknown
The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.
~ Unknown
The stars are free." She shrugs. "I'd rather have the city lights back myself, the sooner the better. But we can afford the stars.
~ Octavia E. Butler
We are all Godseed, but no more or less so than any other aspect of the universe, Godseed is all there is—all that Changes. Earthseed is all that spreads Earthlife to new earths. The universe is Godseed. Only we are Earthseed. And the Destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I'd rather have the city lights back myself, the sooner the better. But we can afford the stars.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Man himself, at the very least, is music, a brave theme that makes music also of its vast accompaniment, its matrix of storms and stars. Man himself in his degree is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things. It is very good to have been man. And so we may go forward together with laughter in our hearts, and peace, thankful for the past, and for our own courage. For we shall make after all a fair conclusion to this brief music that is man.
~ Olaf Stapledon
Thus, though there is normally no such thing as sin among the stars, no deliberate choice of the course known to be wrong for the sake of some end known to be irrelevant, there is ignorance, and consequent aberration from the pattern of the ideal as revealed to stars of somewhat maturer mentality.
~ Olaf Stapledon
When the knock comes, it will knock a certain reticence. It will leave your door covered in white-knuckles. And the windows will no longer breathe, they will die like paintings. And you will no longer be worrying the stars into meaning, they will already mean something
~ Unknown
But it also crossed my mind that in spite of all, in spite of our fragility and ignorance, we have an incredible advantage over the stars – it is for us that time works, giving us a major opportunity to transform the suffering, aching world into a happy and peaceful one.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
It's the stars that are imprisoned in their own power, and they cannot really help us. They merely design the nets, and on cosmic looms they weave the warp thread that we must complete with our own weft.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
unless they are at a practically infinite distance. That is the only answer that can be given. It was the tentative answer given by Copernicus. It is the correct answer. Not only from every position of the earth, but from every planet of the solar system, the same constellations are visible, and the stars have the same aspect. The
~ Oliver Lodge
Day hath put on his jacket, and around His burning bosom buttoned it with stars.
~ Unknown
There is always with us that odd little sect of heretics which believes that the stars are busy with the little business of our lives.
~ Unknown
I am so ignorant that I cannot remember much from the list of the lesser stars. It may be that they have suffered indignities.
~ Unknown
Learn to associate ideas worthy of God with all that happens in Nature—the sunrises and the sunsets, the sun and the stars, the changing seasons, and your imagination will never be at the mercy of your impulses, but will always be at the service of God.
~ Oswald Chambers
If I could, I would gather the stars from the sky and lay them at your feet. Your love has been my salvation.
~ Pamela Clare
Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
~ Paracelsus
Thanking all her lucky stars individually and by name, Cimorene twisted and scrambled to her feet, sword ready.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
I refuse to let him hire a princess in disguise who's hoping to sneak into the next ball wearing a dress as shining as the stars so that Daystar will fall in love with her. Princesses are very persuasive, but most of them aren't much use in the kitchen." Daystar blinked. "But Mother, we hardly ever have balls. And I really don't think I'd fall in love with someone just because she was wearing a fancy dress." "Try and convince a princess of that.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Life is a journey. A hopeless cliché. But not its fault. Cliché is the fate of every fully absorbed truth. The stars, for example, do look like diamonds. You just can't say so.
~ Patricia Hampl
stars pricked the night sky.
~ Unknown
Auntie says that in the city, people gather and pay money to see beautiful women and handsome men put on a show. The people in the show are called movie stars.
~ Patricia McCormick