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Quotes About Heavens

Heavens, no! Political meetings. I am a suffragist," she told us proudly. "And if I were permitted to vote, I should vote Liberal. That is what galls him the most. He's the most appalling Tory.
~ Deanna Raybourn
In the morning, lift my hands towards the heavens. And surrender my heart in prayer to the Most High God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Glory to God in the holy highest heavens.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
That arc of light, born of the shower and colored by the sun, which spans the heavens!
~ Jean Charles Prince
Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?
~ Jeb Bush
She saw that Matavai Bay had become, in the hushed and balmy night, as smooth as a mirror. The entire canopy of stars above her was reflected perfectly in the water, as though there were two heavens now: one above, one below. The silence and purity of this was formidable. The beach felt heavy with presences. Had Ambrose ever seen such a thing while he was here? Two heavens, in one night? Had he ever felt this dread and wonderment, this sense of both loneliness and presence?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
For I dipp'd into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dewFrom the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The family requires a certain authority and wisdom about the ways of the heavens and of men. The parents must have knowledge of what has happened in the past, and prescriptions for what ought to be, in order to resist the philistinism or the wickedness of the present.
~ Allan David Bloom
Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos that does not match the Space Age revelation of a unified universe in which the earth is clearly in, rather than separated from, the heavens. Hierarchical representations do not reflect what either the world or we are like.
~ Eugene Kennedy
Heavens," I said. "Integrity?" "One finds it in the most unlikely places," Frampton said. "Even, now and then, in law firms." "I'm heartened," I said.
~ Robert B. Parker
Is he any good?" Susan said. "DeSpain. Yeah. He's a good cop. Very tough cop." "Too tough?" "Some people thought so," I said. "Tougher than you?" "Never a horse that couldn't be rode, little lady. Never a rider that couldn't be throwed." "Good heavens," Susan said. "Does that mean he might be?" "Means maybe we'll find out some day," I said.
~ Robert B. Parker
God not da faddah, he just the spoiled moody child, but you got to go t'rough him to get to da real power, his mama, Mot'er God. She da real Almighty! She run da heavens alone. Original single parent. When somethin' bad happen, usually mean she let God try his hand, and he screw up plenny. You need something important, you go directly Mot'er God. Jesus, Mary, Joseph? Dey just small potatoes, part of the chorus, neh?
~ Kiana Davenport
A full moon hung across the heavens like a pregnant belly.
~ Kien Nguyen
There is no better way to gain perspective on one's life than by gazing upon the heavens.
~ Kristen Britain
People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game.
~ Johnny Damon
God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.
~ yeats william butler iv
vence a tu propia naturaleza reactiva y los cielos te ayudarán a vencer a las leyes de la Madre Naturaleza, pues ambas están íntimamente relacionadas.
~ Yehuda Berg
As the black night descended from the heavens, I knew that in the blink of an eye I would witness the death of the sunset. I saw the exposed and firm chest of the vast earth; its pose was one of calling, of beckoning. And just as a mother beckons her children, so the earth beckoned the coming of night.
~ Yu Hua
Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Day gazed out at the sky, where a shooting star was winging across the heavens. "I stepped in between Jenna and the hex. I wasn't even thinking; it was just instinctive." "Of course it was." Barbara gazed at him fondly. "You may think you have changed, but your gallantry was never just for show; it's part of who you are.
~ Deborah Blake
When I mentioned my early morning waking to the old witch down the street, she explained that this is the time the "ceiling is the thinnest," the moment that the earth's creatures have the greatest access to the heavens... It is a magical time, or so she said.
~ Dee Williams
Condemnation is a trick of the enemy, not the language of the heavens. Shame is not God's tool, so if we are slaves to it, we're way off the beaten path. And
~ Jen Hatmaker
Destiny, she'd learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn't take what the universe didn't wish to give.
~ Jennifer Haigh
And, then, if only there were some truth in what the priests say, if only the poor of this world were rich in the next! These words were greeted with a burst of laughter, and even the children shrugged their shoulders, for the hard wind blowing from the outer world had taken away all their belief. They harbored a secret fear of ghosts down in the mine, but scoffed at the empty heavens.
~ Émile Zola