Quotes About Celestial

The stars are the street lights of eternity.

Stars look serene, but they are incredibly violent furnaces that occasionally erupt...

...the twinkling anatomy of Orion and his skymates...

Imagine how many glorious winters and springs The stars from their celestial perches have seen.

How bright and beautiful a comet is as it flies past our planet — provided it does fly past it.

There is a place above, where Scorpio bent, In tail and arms surrounds a vast extent; In a wide circuit of the heavens he shines, And fills the place of two celestial signs.

Now rising you may see with naked eye The brilliant Star in Corde Scorpii, Whose changing colours on a Summer's night, When culminating, shine so clear and bright, And twinkling change with red and silver light.

Although both Orion and Scorpio were honored by the celestials with a place among the stars, yet their situations were so ordered that when one rose the other should set, and vice versa; so that they never appear in the same hemisphere at the same time.

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary...

Day is a solar cathedral, night a starry sanctuary.

Winter stars blaze in silent joy.

As far as the Moon is concerned, he is always full.

Þar sem jökulinn ber við loft hættir landið að vera jarðneskt, en jörðin fær hlutdeild í himninum, þar búa ekki framar neinar sorgir og þessvegna er gleðin ekki nauðsynleg, þar ríkir fegurðin ein, ofar hverri kröfu.

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

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

Orion's butt used to be a tuba," said Rigel, "and that's why it makes those noises.

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.

An angel writing in a book of gold.

Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines. Holy

The moon rose, squatting in the strained blue.

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.

Asteroids are our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors.

Some red star had come too close to the earth.