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Quotes About Stars

He thought about the stars. He remembered what they looked like from his bedroom window. What made them shine so brightly, he wondered, and were they still shining somewhere even though he could not see them? Never in my life, he thought, have I been farther away from the stars than I am now.
~ Kate DiCamillo
I have been loved said Edward to the stars.
~ Kate DiCamillo
I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now? Edward could think of no answer to that question.
~ Kate DiCamillo
said, "We know that you're magic." Miss Alodie's blue eyes danced as she tucked her garden shears into one of the many pockets of her fisherman's vest. "Well, now, what gave me away? Was it my glittering wand or my blue wizard's hat with the silver stars on it?" Jesse didn't so much as crack a smile. "It was this fence, right here," he said sternly.
~ Kate Klimo
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
The path is a ribbon of moonlight across a dusky sea. The wind sings a song that beckons us To that great and mighty tree. We are the Greenowls of Ambala, clad in raiments of moss, Sprigged with lichens and grasses Then gilded with silvery frost. Fair and square we play- for a sporting lot we are. We ride the boisterous Balefire gusts And we reach for every star.
~ Kathryn Lasky
This morning I was ten years old. Tonight I am older than the stars.
~ Kathryn Lasky
But for another few minutes at least, we were safe, and we kept dancing under the starlit sky.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
God has an inordinate fondness for stars and also for beetles. The small and the very far away.
~ Kelly Link
Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.
~ David Deutsch
Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
~ Paracelsus
Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!
~ Rudyard Kipling
Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
~ Norman Mailer
The positive effect music has in our lives is understated. It can influence mind-state and motivate us to reach for the stars.
~ Independent Zen
The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I'm spiritual! You know what spiritual means! Me and God has a good relationship. I'm in tune with the universe, the sun, moon, and stars. I'm in tune with the jinns that are all around us.
~ Ghostface Killah
Dreadful as all these processes may seem, they are only the resolution of certain carbon-based compounds into certain other carbon-based compounds. Carbon is the element of life and death. We share it with diamonds and dandelions, with kerosene an kelp. While we may wrinkle our noses at some of its manifestations, we ought also to remember that this element comes to us from the stars, which wheel over us forever in silent, glittering array, pure fires obeying celestial laws.
~ William R. Maples, Ph. D
In ancient days, men looked at the stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.
~ William Safire
As many farewells as be stars in heaven.
~ William Shakespeare
O! hereWill I set up my everlasting rest,And shake the yoke of inauspicious starsFrom this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!Arms, take your last embrace!
~ William Shakespeare
Since once I sat upon a promontory,And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's backUttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,That the rude sea grew civil at her song,And certain stars shot madly from their spheresTo hear the sea-maid's music.
~ William Shakespeare
I was not born under a riming planet.
~ William Shakespeare
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt love
~ William Shakespeare
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.
~ William Shakespeare