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Quotes About Celestial

He says he thanks every star the we existed on the same clestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man made throughaway for intersecting dreams.
~ Emma Forrest
Soon the entire nebula was little more than a shawl of cosmic gauze thrown over a network of stars.
~ Eoin Colfer
aphrodite's laughter shakes the sky
~ Erica Jong
When you woke up, for a moment you thought you were the moon.
~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The celestial choir that appears to the shepherds is usually called the "heavenly host"; the CEB offers "heavenly forces" (2:13), which is the better translation for today. This is God's army.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
the moon is tender
~ Andrew Davidson
If the Sun were reduced to the size of a basketball, Earth would be a small apple seed about 30 meters from the ball.
~ Andrew Fraknoi
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
~ Stephen Leacock
The things we used to do together were alien now. Lonesome star, shine on.
~ Rob Sheffield
But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Those huge stars have lasted for millions of years by taking care never to absorb any of the fiery rays lovers all over the world send up at them night after night. To avoid that, the star generates so much heat inside itself that it shatters the rays into a thousand pieces. Any look it receives is immediately repulsed, reflected back onto the earth, like a trick done with mirrors. That is the reason the stars shine so brightly at night.
~ Laura Esquivel
Estos grandes astros han sobrevivido millones de años gracias a que se cuidan mucho de no absorber los rayos ardientes que los amantes de todo el mundo les lanzan noche tras noche.
~ Laura Esquivel
This threatens to become a circular argument," Holmes said. "I know it's there because it's all that explains the facts. My wife tells me that astronomers posit the existence of an invisible planet by the effects it has on the orbit of other celestial bodies. Thus do I posit the existence of this object.
~ Laurie R. King
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
~ Isaac Newton
There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they are pushed to the background.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
~ Anaxagoras
Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.
~ George Gamow
The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.
~ William Herschel
In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.
~ Edmond Halley
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.'
~ W. W. Rouse Ball
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.
~ Charles Richet
Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.
~ John Scott Russell
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos