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Quotes About Stars

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the
~ William Herschel
Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses …
~ Farkas Bolyai
From a biology point of view, the purpose of humanity is to ensure his survival by expanding his domain into the stars.
~ Osman Doluca
Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.
~ Josh Groban
And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.
~ Beth Revis
Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin' back at me. Dancin' in moonlight, I know you are free 'cause I can see your star shinin' down on me.
~ Janet Jackson
If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
~ Unknown
Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.
~ John Fowles
Peter glanced up at the stars and a wicked smile lit his face. "Time to play," he whispered to the stars and winked. And the stars winked back, for Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.
~ Brom
Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties
~ Tess Gerritsen
Some words were left unsaid Oh Layla, as you slept peacefully in my arms, and the stars kept on peeping into the room to glance at your smile!
~ Avijeet Das
Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.
~ John Fowles, The Magus
The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.
~ Huey Newton
It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
~ zusak markus iii
Like the hills under dusk you fall away from the light: you deepen: the green light darkens and you are nearly lost: only so much light as stars keep manifests your face: I feel the total night in myself rave for the light along your lips.
~ A.R. Ammons
Everything's finished. Riders gallop black horses, a tyrant composes a sentence of death with grammatical errors. Youth dissolves in a day; girls' faces freeze into medallions, despair turns to rapture and the hard fruits of stars in the sky ripen like grapes, and beauty endures, shaken, unperturbed, and God is and God dies; night returns to us in the evening, and the dawn is hoary with dew.
~ Adam Zagajewski
He sank into the leather seat and held hope in his heart like a hundred stars.
~ Adriana Trigiani
I want to be closer to the sky. Closer to the pink moon. And closer to the stars that shine over South Bend, which turn out to be the very same ones that twinkle over Brooklyn.
~ Adriana Trigiani
For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars. Now
~ Adriana Trigiani
held hope in his heart like a hundred stars.
~ Adriana Trigiani
And when the moon is full and there's a lot of light, it overpowers the sparkle of the stars, so you think they're gone. But they're there. In science, the only concept you can prove is that things always change. But the truth is, they also stay the same.
~ Adriana Trigiani
I know the stars by heart, the armies of the night, and there in the lead the ones that bring us snow or the crops of summer, bring us all we have-- our great blazing kings of the sky, I know them, when they rise and when the fall . . .
~ Aeschylus
I know the stars by heart, the armies of the night, and there in the lead the ones that bring us snow or the crops of summer, bring us all we have-- our great blazing kings of the sky, I know them, when they rise and when they fall . . .
~ Aeschylus