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Quotes About Creation

Look at all those stars. God has fireworks on display all the time, doesn't He?
~ Cheryl St.John
The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The void?" I'd asked, crestfallen. "it's a good thing," she said. "It's the place where things are born, where they begin. Think about how a black hole absorbs energy and then releases it into something that's new and alive.
~ Cheryl Strayed
When we see a painting that we love, we're not standing there thinking about the artist who made it — we're thinking about how that painting makes us feel, what that reflects to us about our lives and the world. And so I love when love exceeds … its creator, which is the whole goal of art…; when it becomes not about the person who created it, but about the people who consume it…
~ Cheryl Strayed
The void? I'd asked," crestfallen. "It's a good thing," she said. "It's the place where things are born, where they begin, Think about how a black hole absorbs energy and then releases it as something new and alive.
~ Cheryl Strayed
We are here to build the house.
~ Cheryl Strayed
It's the place where things are born, where they begin. Think about how a black hole absorbs energy and then releases it as something new and alive.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it.
~ Cheryl Tiegs
Most software that is written is either re-implementing existing concepts or building upon and extending them in new ways.
~ Chet Haase
The dark night was the first book of poetry, and the constellations were the poems.
~ Chet Raymo
The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a Plot of God. --Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka
~ Chet Williamson
If God hired an architect to design heaven, this was how it would be done.
~ Chetan Bhagat
The Spider is a lovely lady. She knows just what to do. She weaves a dainty web to catch the morning dew...
~ Frank Asch
As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos...
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is said that the first storyteller crept at night to listen to the gods talking in their sleep — so each tale collected contained the breath of gods.
~ Author Unknown
After God perfected the sunrise, he created photographers, artists, and poets to ensure his feat remained immortal.
~ Terri Guillemets
Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less you lead, the more you're driven, The more destroyed, the more they feed, The more you pay, the more they need, The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.
~ Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
In the country! Oh, in the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time.
~ Sydney Smith
A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!
~ Author unknown, c.1980
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The human mechanism is marvelous. But why not — it is the result of three-and-a-half billion years of tinkering.
~ Isaac Asimov
What golden spider warmed himself and spun This web that is the flesh upon your bones...
~ Mark Van Doren, 1932
God made the country, and man made the town.
~ William Cowper
...the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.... there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure.
~ John Ruskin, "Of the Open Sky"