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Quotes About Stars

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.
~ Allen Ginsberg
'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
~ John Keats
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
~ Isaac Asimov
Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.
~ George Gamow
The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.
~ Anaxagoras
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.
~ Charles Richet
Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.
~ Howard Bloom
May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings?
~ William Huggins
It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.
~ William Huggins
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
~ Anatole France
These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.
~ William Shakespeare
Torrent of light and river of air, Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen, Like gold and silver sands in some ravine Where mountain streams have left their channels bare!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
The discovery of one star is the promise of another.
~ Robert Aris Willmott
It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
~ Henry David Thoreau
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
~ James A. Garfield
No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.
~ James F. Cooper
Don't let anyone fool you. The stars are always shining. And you don't just see them in the dark. The sun is a star, and it provides light for all of us.
~ Halle Teart
Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Sometimes in my tent, last at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping, against the sky.
~ Rick Yancey
And there I was, a woman who yearned so hard for the sky there had to be stars in my blood, yet I was stuck in Heliodor City, missing it all.
~ Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension
Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we're all connected. We're all going to become one cloud of light whether you like it or not. We're all made of the same star dust.
~ Jason Daniel Chaplin