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Quotes About Skies

You will soon learn that there ARE no strange stars, no alien skies - No? Only skies and stars, in all their varieties. Each one with its own flavour, and all flavours good - Now YOU think like a tree. Flavours! Of skies! I have tasted the heat of many stars, and all of them were sweet
~ Orson Scott Card
They came to know the night skys well. Western eyes that read more geometric constructions than those names given by the ancients.
~ Cormac McCarthy
And even on the Christmas roses the smuts settled persistently, incredible, like black manna from skies of doom.
~ D.H. Lawrence
I bring you a warning—every one of you listening to my voice. Tell the world, tell this to everybody wherever they are: watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking—keep watching the skies!
~ Charles Lederer
Behind them in America, rebel torches had set skies aglow in western Pennsylvania to protest a federal tax on whiskey.
~ Harlow Giles Unger
Tom drew near, and tried to say something; but she only groaned. Honestly, and with tears running down his own cheeks, he spoke of a heart of love in the skies, of a pitying Jesus, and an eternal home; but the ear was deaf with anguish, and the palsied heart could not feel.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Atmospheres of light shine in your eyes and so my dear sun, I hear your cries as you melt the rain from our delicate skies with a love so great there can be no goodbyes.
~ Heather Lydia Thornhill
The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.
~ lazarus emma
I don't want to make light of the importance of my musical upbringing, as you cannot avoid being influenced by the area you grow up, but I will say that Reykjavik's geography is very different from, say, New York, Paris, or Copenhagen. There's big skies. The buildings are low. The landscape is spread out.
~ Johann Johannsson
I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.
~ Zane Grey
When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill and sing, and Joy is king of everything, when Cynthia smiles. He coughed, changing gears. When Cynthia frowns - What the devil are you talking about? I'm reading you my poem. The one I wrote to Cynthia last night. I'll go on, shall I? No! No? No. I haven't had my tea.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The sun does arise, And make happy the skies. The merry bells ring To welcome the spring. The skylark and thrush, The birds of the bush, Sing louder around, To the bells' cheerful sound, While our sports shall be seen On the echoing green.
~ William Blake
Around me celestial flowers are falling in a crystal shower. Or are they the tears of the gods who crowd the skies, looking down in sorrow and admiration at my final act of self-respect?
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
One painting was of an observatory, the other of a boy on a bluff. Both featured starry skies—and both, Mr. Benedict had told them, were the work of a childhood friend.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
there are unknown objects traversing our skies that seem to be under intelligent control.
~ Unknown
It was a little unsettling how quiet the skies were. Clay
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies
~ Paulo Coelho
The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Innocence, with laughing eyes! Thou art a cherub from the skies, A wanderer from heaven.
~ Harvey Rice
Behind each thing a shadow lies; Beauty hath e'er its cost: Within the moonlight-flooded skies How many stars are lost!
~ Clark Ashton Smith
You have lost faith in anything great; you are doomed, then, doomed to perish unless that faith returns, like a comet from unknown skies.
~ Hölderlin
Mine is the sultry sunset when the skies Tremble with strange, intolerable thunder: And at the dead of an hushed night, these eyes Draw down the soaring oracles winged with wonder
~ Unknown
I still miss qualities of Khmer life that are hard to quantify: the slow, sensual pace, the hovering presence of the past, the vast skies filled with terrifying and beautiful butts. And, of course, the food.
~ Lawrence Osborne
One of the reasons I like living in Bangkok is that, although it's a megacity, it's very saturated with nature - the vast and brooding skies, the sudden storms and rains, the vegetation and even the animals that abound.
~ Lawrence Osborne