Quotes About Celestial

Trustworthy and durable as a pole star in the night sky.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

He shook his ladle overhead as if summoning the wrath of angel chefs among the stars.

What's the different between a shooting star and a falling house? One which is propitious grants delicious wishes, the other which is vicious squishes witches.

Che cos'ha mai di così seducente questa luna, vecchio astro defunto, che porta a spasso nel cielo, la sua faccia giallina e la sua triste luce di trapassata per turbare così noialtri, noi che siamo infiammati da erranti fantasie?

It's okay," Dee Dee said in the soothing voice of something still confusingly celestial. "Just stay still." He glanced past her as he swam back to full consciousness. Yep, he was still in the cult compound. The decor in the room was closer to nonexistent than austere. Nothing on the walls, no furniture in view. The walls were that same inescapable gray.

On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.

The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.

We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.

Brigham Young articulated the nature of [spiritual wrestlers] when he declared that "the men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle every day.

On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.

To return to where we started, there have always been two Jerusalems, the temporal and the celestial, both ruled more by faith and emotion than by reason and facts. And Jerusalem remains the centre of the world.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

What I long for with a deep ache inside me is sacred music. I long for the Fauré Requiem, for the Haydn "Mass in Time of War," for some pure celestial music that could lift me above myself, into that sphere where great art lives, beyond what man can be in himself, the intimation of the sacred—what cannot be dirtied or smudged by wickedness or by anger, which no threat can touch.

There is a mystical rite under the material act of cleaning and tidying, for what is done with love is always more than itself and partakes of the celestial orders

I felt as if the Milky Way, hovering above our heads like a celestial pitcher, had suddenly overturned, pouring suns and planets down my throat. Stars seemed to be shooting out of my finger and toes, the ends of my hair.

Outside, the crescent moon was high in the sky, shining in its sliver glory.

podía calcular los movimientos de los cuerpos celestiales, pero no la locura de la gente». Newton

The Mexicans relate that, shortly before our arrival in New Spain, there appeared a figure in the heavens of a circular form, like a carriage wheel, the colours of which were a mixture of green and red. Shortly after a second, of a similar form, made its appearance, which moved towards the rising of the sun, and joined the first.

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it's the same moon Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at. Not to mention all those zillions of people I've never heard of. All those Homo sapiens and Neanderthals looked at the very same moon as me. It waxed and waned in their sky, too.