Jiroemon Kimura quotes

“I am always looking up towards the sky; that is how I am.”
-- Jiroemon Kimura

Source : "World's Oldest Person Dies at 116 in Japan", www.cnbc.com. June 12, 2013.

#Sky Quotes

“Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”

Source : Last Poems (1922) no. 9

“When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.”

“For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.”

“I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!”

“If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!”

“Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.155

“In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.”

“From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher.”

“We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!”

“If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.”