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Quotes About Celestial

Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.
~ Carl Sagan
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shining because of distant nuclear fusion. In
~ Carl Sagan
We are made of starstuff. Some
~ Carl Sagan
an encounter in space] Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful...I had no idea. I had no idea.
~ Carl Sagan as Ellie Arroway
Sometimes the moon is light and sometimes it's in shadow, but you should always remember it's the same moon.
~ Terry Pratchett
Sometimes the moon is light and sometimes it's in shadow, but you should always remember it's the same moon.
~ Terry Pratchett
My sun, moon and stars.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Sun, moon and stars
~ Karen Marie Moning
The sun is back at its original o'clock.
~ Karen Russell
The moon, the earth's silent, smaller sister, pulled together out of dust and rock into this magical silver companion.
~ Kate Constable
if people ask for directions I point to the gibbous moon when asked how I am I smile the cusp of an eclipse
~ Gabriel Rosenstock
The evening is come; rise up, ye youths. Vesper from Olympus now at last is just raising his long-looked-for light.
~ Gaius Valerius Catullus
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
~ Galileo Galilei
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
~ Galileo Galilei
And she glowed with light like the brightest planet in the darkest sky.
~ Gary D. Schmidt
dwarf galaxies, have as few as ten million stars. The biggest, the giants, have been estimated to contain in the region of 100 trillion.
~ Brian Cox
Light is the magician of the cosmos.
~ Bruce Watson
It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow. Lit up by the moon, it looked celestial; seemed some plumed and glittering god uprising from the sea.
~ Herman Melville
Dudas de todas las cosas terrenales e intuiciones de algunas cosas celestiales: esta combinación no produce ni un creyente ni un incrédulo, sino que produce un hombre que las considera a ambas con iguales ojos.
~ Herman Melville
man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
~ Herman Melville
Thus at the North have I chased Leviathan round and round the Pole with the revolutions of the bright points that first defined him to me. And beneath the effulgent Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying Fish.
~ Herman Melville
These were the colloquies in heaven.
~ Homer
Patroclus, in Achilles' arms, enlighten'd all with stars
~ Homer
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
~ George Washington