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Quotes About Sky

Sky's weird infinite eyes held Dave. They saw another world, and looking into them Dave caught a glimpse of that world. There was a wealth of knowing in that glance. It challenged everything. Whatever this guy knew Dave wanted to know. Whatever this guy was Dave wanted to be. In that moment Dave switched sides. Oh God, he thought, what do I do now?
~ Jim Morris
On the very tip of his tongue is his Firerancher. Thin as tissue paper, it looks like the moon in the daytime sky. Suddenly love is looming over the car, as big and invisible as the ghost mountains of the Comobabi range. I smile at him and turn up the radio with my toes.
~ Jo Ann Beard
Across the street, there were parties at other windows. The sky was fading behind the roof peaks and chimney tops, which stood out like cardboard cutout silhouettes, and I looked from them to the lit windows, and back again. A flock of birds, pigeons probably, wheeled across the sky, heading home before dark.
~ Jo Walton
Nuvens deslizam, depetaladas, e altas, altas, garças brancas planam.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
but Reba taught me to be grateful no matter what. I looked up at the blue sky.
~ Joan Bauer
she was a little frightened that first afternoon. There seemed such a huge expanse of water and sky, and so little of herself.
~ Joan G. Robinson
It was one of those still, grey, pearly days, with no wind, when sky and water seemed to merge into one, and everything was soft and sad and dreamy.
~ Joan G. Robinson
Presently the possums came prancing out on to the dim moonlit slates of the roof. With squeals and grunts they wove obscenely about the squat base of the tower, dark against the paling sky.
~ Joan Lindsay
the large black birds swirling and dispersing over
~ Joan London
To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.
~ Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores
~ Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
~ Joaquin Miller
So many lights you'd think we were living in a constellation
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
So many stars are popping out above us it seems you could almost dip your fingers up there and come out with a handful of diamonds.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
The sunrise was the colour of bad blood. It leaked out of the east and stained the dark sky red, marked the scraps of the cloud with stolen gold. Underneath it the road twisted up the mountainside towards the fortress of Fontezarmo - a cluster of sharp towers, ash-black again the wounded heavens. The sunrise was red, black and gold. The colours of their profession.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Ain't it God's sword, fell from the sky? I thought it had to be passed on. Is it cursed?" Craw took up the reins and turned back to the north. "Every sword's a curse, boy.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He looks down at his busted legs, to avoid seeing the lethal sky.
~ Ann Napolitano
The sky, as if taking a breath, lightens.
~ Ann Napolitano
The sky is a meadow of wildstar flowers.
~ Ann Zwinger
As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.
~ Ann Zwinger
No foreign sky protected me,no stranger's wing shielded my face.I stand as witness to the common lot,survivor of that time, that place.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Without love, I'm more at ease, I'm sure. The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping, And all my thoughts are innocent and pure.
~ Anna Akhmatova
The angel of God, having secretly Betrothed us one winter day, Watches over our carefree lives With fixed, darkening eyes Because of this we love the sky, Keen air, the fresh wind And the blackening branches Behind the iron fence. Because of this we love the stern Dark city with its many waterways. And we love our partings, And our brief meetings.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Cold clouds of incense Hide the height of the sky, A burst of wind and everything opens. We understand. The drama is over, This is not the third autumn. This is death.
~ Anna Akhmatova