Sky Quotes:

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

topic: Sky, Lasts

Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.

topic: Stars, Night, Sky, Stars In The Night Sky

In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.

topic: Believe, Blue, Sky

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

topic: Brother, Light, Sky

I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

topic: Sky, Tree, Looks, Trunks, Dead Trees

When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At the slightest breeze, with the smallest ripple in the waters, the lake reflects nothing but itself. To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness. The slightest breeze of judgment or interpretation from the rational mind will create a ripple that shatters Awareness and returns us to ordinary perception.

topic: Eye, Blue, Sky, Blue And Gold

- Alberto Villoldo

topic: Objectivity, Sky, Lakes, Ripple

On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Sky, Wings, New Day, Cranes, Marshes

Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Sky, Navy, Solidarity

The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Drama, Sky, Land

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Sky, Stills

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

- Aleksandar Hemon

source: Aleksandar Hemon (2010). “Love and Obstacles”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

topic: Fall, Sky, Piano, Descending

The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.

- Aleksis Kivi

topic: Love Is, Fire, Sky, Fire Of Love

The darker the walls,the brighter the sky outside.

- Alex Gaskarth

topic: Wall, Sky, Brighter

The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.

- Alexander Crummell

topic: Spring, Greatness, Sky

Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light of His face?

- Alexander MacLaren

topic: Light, Sky, Might, Radiant

We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.

- Alexander McCall Smith

source: Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”

topic: Memories, Sky, Smell

Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?

topic: Light, Sky, Spirit

Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

topic: Thinking, Sky

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

topic: Light, Sea, Sky, Canopy

It's here somewhere," I assured him. "Please tell me you haven't lost it already." "We did fall out of the sky, you know," I said indignantly. "It's easy for things to go missing.

topic: Rain, Flower, Sky

- Alexandra Adornetto

topic: Fall, Sky, Missing, Assured

Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.

- Alfred Billings Street

source: Alfred Billings Street (1850). “The Poems of Alfred B. Street”, p.20

topic: Summer, Clouds, Sky

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

- Alfred Kreymborg

source: Alfred Kreymborg, “Old Manuscript”

topic: Beautiful, Moon, Sky, Clouds Sky, Beautiful Sunset

I always start a painting with the sky.

- Alfred Sisley

topic: Sky, Painting

The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Stars, Sky, Purple, Edge Of The World

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Blue, Sky, Forever, Better Now

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds ...

- Alice Meynell

topic: Spring, Wind, Sky, Colorless

Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!

- Alison Croggon

topic: Sky, Drunk

And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.

- Ally Condie

topic: Thinking, Sky, Laughing

Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.

- Amanda Bennett

topic: Airplane, Sea, Sky

It's a hard life, but it's the only life we have. And sometimes-' he pointed to a bright flash of lightening, its jagged light stretching from the sky to the ground, '-it's still beautiful. Sometimes you find something that makes this all worth it. And when you do, you hang onto it for as long as you can.' He turned to me, shrugging one shoulder. 'That's the best you can do.

- Amanda Hocking

topic: Beautiful, Light, Sky

The world has been created for everyone's use, but you few rich are trying to keep it up for yourselves. For not merely the possession of the earth, but the very sky, the air, and the sea are claimed for the use of the rich few... The earth belongs to all, not just to the rich.

- Ambrose

topic: Air, Sea, Sky

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

- Amelia Earhart

topic: Airplane, Sky, Tree, Pilots And Flying, Helicopters

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

- Anais Nin

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Strength, Clouds, Sky, Appease, Clouds And Stars

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky

- Anais Nin

topic: Sky, Rejection, Rebuttal

The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.

- Anaximander

source: "Science Attests the Accuracy of the Bible". The Watchtower, October 1, 1980.

topic: Distance, Sky, Space, Cylinders

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

- Andre Breton

topic: Men, Color, Sky

A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sky on a summer eve Your heart is tugging at your sleeve, And you cannot say why... There must be more

- Andrew Peterson

source: Song: More, Album: The Far Country

topic: Summer, Heart, Sky, Tugging

She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...

- Angela Carter

topic: Sky, Eternity, Lost

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

- Ann Aguirre

source: Ann Aguirre (2009). “Doubleblind”, p.64, Penguin

topic: Dark, Dust, Sky

No, not under the vault of another sky, not under the shelter of other wings. I was with my people then, there where my people were doomed to be.

- Anna Akhmatova

topic: Sky, Wings, People

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

topic: Time, Sky, Wings

Green pastures are before me, which yet I have not seen; Bright skies will soon be o'er me, where the dark clouds have been. My hope I cannot measure, my path to life is free, My Savior has my treasure, and He will walk with me.

- Anna Laetitia Waring

source: Anna Laetitia Waring, “In Heavenly Love Abiding”

topic: Dark, Sky, Clouds, Pastures, Green Pastures

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

- Anna Letitia Barbauld

topic: Men, Sky, Soul

I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.

- Annabel Pitcher

topic: Sky, Middle Finger, Cases

We didn't speak, just drove out of the city into the countryside on our way to absolutely nowhere, and when we found that perfect spot among the trees, we stopped and looked at each other. Swallows swooped through the red sky, back from their adventure, and we held each other underneath the ketchup clouds, willing time to stop and the world to forget us for a while.

- Annabel Pitcher

topic: Adventure, Clouds, Sky, Ketchup

There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When you are human, you discover that there is great power in hating the earth. And it can almost make you fly. But it never will." I had frowned, not quite understanding him. "So, what's the trick?" "Love the sky.

- Anne Fortier

topic: Hate, Angel, Sky, Understanding Him

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

- Anne Frank

topic: Sunshine, Sky, Long

Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.

- Anne McCaffrey

topic: Dragons, Sky, Space

But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.

- Anne Rice

topic: Blue, Sky, Shade

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

topic: Sky, Tyrants, Lightning

Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit around and chat until three. Then I hunt some more until sundown, bathe again, put on white tie and tails to keep up appearances, eat a huge dinner, smoke a cigar and sleep like a log until the sun comes up again to redden the eastern sky. This is livingâ€¦. Could it be more perfect?

- Annie Dillard

topic: Sleep, Naps, Sky

The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Integrity, Sky, Quality, Growing Things

How do you catch a beautiful bird without killing it? By becoming the sky.

- Antero Alli

topic: Beautiful, Sky, Bird, Killing It

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

- Anthony Anderson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fighting, Sky, Firefighter, Helicopters, Caliber

I hear it still. As I lay down my pen and take to my bed, I am aware of the bow being drawn across the bridge and the music rises into the night sky. It is far away and barely audible - but there it is! A pizzicato. Then a tremelo. The style is unmistakable. It is Sherlock Holmes who is playing. It must be. I hope with all my heart that he is playing for me . . .

- Anthony Horowitz

topic: Heart, Night, Sky

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

- Anthony Horowitz

topic: Stars, Sky, Bird, Stars In The Sky

Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.

- Anthony Kiedis

topic: Blow, Wind, Sky, Evaporation

You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

topic: Stars, Night, Sky

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

topic: Winning, Sky, Tree, Dead Trees, Tree Of Life

Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes...

topic: Winning, Sky, Tree

The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.

topic: Flower, Sheep, Sky, Yes Or No

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

topic: Stars, Night, Sky, Long Wait, Shooting Star

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Husband, Moon, Sky

I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.

- Anton Szandor LaVey

topic: Sky, Church, Crosses, Pentagrams

So how do people listen to music? How do the broad masses listen to it? Apparently they have to be able to cling to pictures and 'moods' of some kind. If they can't imagine a green field, a blue sky or something of the sort, then they are out of their depth.

- Anton Webern

source: Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

topic: Blue, Sky, People, Green Fields

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.

- Antonio Porchia

topic: Sky, Made

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

- Antony Hewish

topic: Team, Sky, Paper, Analysing

We all drink from one water We all breathe from one air We rise from one ocean And we live under one sky

- Anwar Fazal

topic: Ocean, Air, Sky

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

- Apolo Ohno

topic: Dad, Order, Sky

The first thing you discover is a kind of emptiness, a silence, a presence which doesn't seem to have content to it, like looking up at a limitless sky. That boundary-less place inside you is your own consciousness, your awareness. When you relax into it, you realize that it's also full - it is everything. You realize this presence is what you really are: Love.

- Arjuna Ardagh

topic: Wisdom, Sky, Silence

On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared forever.

- Arnaud Desjardins

topic: Buddhism, Sky, Forever

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

- Arnold Lobel

source: Arnold Lobel, “Books To the Ceiling”

topic: Book, Sky, Long

New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing neon signs. It was safe to walk out in the streets.

- Art Buchwald

topic: New York, Sky, Dancing, Neon Sign

It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.

- Art Wolfe

topic: Sky, Earth, Spirit, Wild Places

One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided with that of the Earth's equator, would revolve with the Earth and would thus be stationary above the same spot on the planet. It would remain fixed in the sky of a whole hemisphere ... [to] provide coverage to half the globe, and for a world service three would be required, though more could be readily utilized. (1945) [Predidicting geosynchronous communication satellites]

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Communication, Sky, Would Be, Equator, Radius

My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With foggy gloom is clouded o'er My gay green leaves are yellow-black, Upon the dank autumnal floor; For love, departed once, comes back No more again, no more.

- Arthur Hugh Clough

topic: Gay, Wind, Sky, Dank, Clouded

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

- Arthur Keith

topic: Heart, Sky, Historical

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

- Arthur Miller

topic: Sky, Enemy, Balloons

People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision than somebody who goes in and comments about the beauty of a forest or the stars in the sky.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Stars, Sky, People, Stars In The Sky

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Dream, Sky, Kites, Pinching, Living The Dream

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Philosophy, Wind, Sky

What if everyone goes on the endless road Sooner or later Over the clouds to the sky Be sure to wait for me. And then, we will talk away About our countless memories.

- Ayumi Hamasaki

topic: Memories, Clouds, Sky, Wait For Me, Endless Roads

No matter how far apart we are, don't forget that we're still under the same sky, both traveling to the place we once dreamed of.

- Ayumi Hamasaki

topic: Sky, Matter, Forget

During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like the clouds which are spreading in the sky.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Moving, Clouds, Sky

The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

- Banana Yoshimoto

source: Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.81, Melville House

topic: Beautiful, Heart, Sky

What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.

- Banana Yoshimoto

topic: Sky, Important, Together

You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky

- Banksy

topic: Sky, Castles, Needs, Castles In The Sky

Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel`s right to exist, they might as well reject the Earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.

- Barack Obama

topic: Israel, Sky, Earth

Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

- Barbara Brown Taylor

topic: Reality, Sky, Everyday, Hash

The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.

- Barbara Brown Taylor

topic: Heart, Sky, Effort

The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are lured with promises of pie in the sky and simultaneously terrorized by the threats of extreme nastiness in the eternal afterlife in hell.

- Barbara G. Walker

topic: Sky, Afterlife, Pie, Nastiness

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Blow, Blue, Sky

The moon is a satellite that was constructed. It was built and anchored outside Earth's atmosphere as a mediating and monitoring device, a supercomputer or eye in the sky. It affects all life forms on this planet, beyond what you can currently grasp. In your history there are references to two moons around earth....

- Barbara Marciniak

topic: Eye, Moon, Sky, Supercomputers

But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when you get time of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go after dreams or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a self.

- Barbara Sher

topic: Dream, Self, Sky

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

- Barry Gibb

topic: Sky, People, Streets

Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.

- Bayard Taylor

topic: Dream, Fate, Sky

I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

- Ben Harper

topic: Sky, Criminals, Today, Sky Is The Limit

Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.

- Ben Marcus

source: Ben Marcus (2007). “Notable American Women: A Novel”, p.55, Vintage

topic: Prayer, Rain, Sky, White Noise

One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.

- Ben Okri

topic: Dream, Ocean, Sky

How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.

- Ben Shahn

topic: Sky, Yellow, Black

That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.

- Bernard Barton

source: Bernard Barton, Lucy Barton (1853). “Poems and Letters by Bernard Barton: With a Memoir”, p.160

topic: Adversity, Sky, Ties, Stormy

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.

- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

topic: Sky, Earth, Philosopher, Entry

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

- Bernard Malamud

topic: Believe, Clouds, Sky, Windy, Entitled

The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea

- Bernard Moitessier

source: Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Wind, Sea, Sky

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

- Beryl Bainbridge

source: Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.65, Hachette UK

topic: Men, Sky, Essentials

I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.

- Bessie Head

source: Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann

topic: Mean, Light, Sky, Being Unhappy

No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.

- Betty Smith

topic: Sky, People, Tree, Tenements

Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.

- Bill Anderson

topic: Art, Media, Sky, Cloudy, Cloudy Skies

I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.

- Bill Blass

topic: Spiritual, Believe, Sky, Firm Beliefs

Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.

- Bill McKibben

topic: Ocean, Night, Sky, Center Of The World

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Loss, Sky, Tears

I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky...

- Billy Collins

topic: Stars, Moon, Sky

It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the ruffle at the edge of a skirt; and I am pockmarked with whole-body pinpricks of potentiality. A stretch of my body would surely stretch as far as the sky. The whole universe poised, and I am the agent of any movement.

- Binyavanga Wainaina

topic: Lakes, Blue, Sky, Ruffles, Clear Skies

Don't you like when the winter's gone, And all of a sudden it starts gettin' warm? The trees and the grass start lookin' fresh, And the sun and sky be lookin' their best...

- Biz Markie

source: Song: Spring Again, Album: The Biz Never Sleeps, 1989

topic: Rap, Winter, Sky

All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.

- Black Elk

topic: Inspirational, Life, Sky

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

- Black Elk

topic: Song, Native American, Sky

MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.

- Bob Barr

topic: Fall, Government, Sky

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.

topic: Freedom, I Hate You, Sky, Chained, Hippi

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

topic: Eye, Jewels, Sky

How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

topic: Sky, Mad, Naked

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

topic: Men, Wind, Sky

I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling, somewhere else it gets back up.

topic: Hands, Sea, Sky

- Bob Hicok

source: Bob Hicok (2007). “This clumsy living”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

topic: Fall, Air, Sky

Most people think great god will come from the skies, take away everything, and make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

- Bob Marley

topic: Life, Thinking, Sky

Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.

- Bob Ross

source: Attributed to Bob Ross in "Painter Bob Ross remains an iconic figure years after his death" by Ann Curry, NBC News, September 22, 2004.

topic: Clouds, Sky, Littles

We want our happy little clouds to float across the sky

- Bob Ross

topic: Clouds, Sky, Want

The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever.

- Booth Tarkington

source: Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.74, Courier Corporation

topic: Spiritual, Thinking, Sky

They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.

- Boris Pasternak

topic: Passion, Clouds, Sky, Doctor Zhivago

Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.

- Boris Sidis

source: Boris Sidis (1913). “The Psychology of Laughter”

topic: Laughter, Fire, Sky

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

- Boris Yeltsin

topic: Sky, Ideas, Pie, Pie In The Face

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

- Boyle Roche

source: Attributed

topic: Air, Sky, Smell, Darkening

I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth's ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.

- Brad Leithauser

source: "Reading Your Friends’ Novels" by Brad Leithauser, www.newyorker.com. January 07, 2013.

topic: Order, Years, Sky, Rainfall, Pristine

Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.

- Brandon Boyd

source: "Song: 'Quicksand' ('Light Grenades')". 2006.

topic: Love, Fall, Sky, Quicksand

I'm really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and Kevin Burns did and Bryan did and showed me again you know the history that's in this character and you know.

- Brandon Routh

topic: Character, Sky, Legacy

Reach for the sky, set goals, live life to fullest and always remember to wake up each day with a smile.

- Brandy Miller

topic: Cute, Live Life, Sky

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

- Bret Easton Ellis

topic: Sky, Black, Way

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

- Bret Harte

source: Bret Harte (1914). “The Writings of Bret Harte”

topic: Sky, Flags, Half

If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.

- Brian Clough

topic: Funny, Football, Sky

According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

- Brian Greene

topic: Sky, Space, Age, Sparkling

Reach for the sky, it's not as high as it seems. Just follow your heart go as far as your dreams.

- Brooke Allison

source: Song: Follow Your Heart

topic: Dream, Heart, Sky

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

- Brooks Atkinson

source: Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

topic: Dream, Attitude, Sky, Passwords, Love And Freedom

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

- Bruce Catton

topic: Sunset, Eye, Sky

Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.

- Bruce Cockburn

topic: Beautiful, Rocks, Sky, Beautiful River

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.

- Bruce Cockburn

source: Song: Lovers In A Dangerous TIme, Album: Slice O Life: Bruce Cockburn Live Solo

topic: Fall, Sky, Waiting

You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like As Confucius say, but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different.

- Bruce Lee

source: "Looking At The 'Sunny' Side Of Life". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. September 17, 2008.

topic: Mean, Thinking, Sky

Put your ear to the sky and listen my darling, everything whispers I love you.

- Buddy Wakefield

topic: Love You, Sky, Ears

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

- Burt Rutan

topic: Future, Years, Sky

Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.

- Byron Katie

topic: Thinking, Sky, People

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Grief, Grieving, Sky, Stillbirth, Empty Houses

Kylie looked up towards the sky. "Sometimes I just wish Heaven wasn't so far away.

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Sky, Heaven, Wish

I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

- Callimachus

source: Callimachus, “Heraclitus”

topic: Tired, Talking, Sky

The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

- Calvin Miller

source: Calvin Miller (2010). “The Singer Trilogy: The Mythic Retelling of the Story of the New Testament”, p.335, InterVarsity Press

topic: Sky, World, Maps

I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.

- Cam Gigandet

topic: Fall, Sky, Tv Shows

What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

- Camille Flammarion

source: Camille Flammarion, James Glaisher (1873). “The Atmosphere”, p.103, New York : Harper

topic: Stars, Blue, Sky

Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

- Camille Flammarion

source: Camille Flammarion (1914). “Astronomy”

topic: Discovery, Sky, Leaving, Calculations, Neptune

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

- Camille Pissarro

source: "Painting Outside the lines, Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art". Book edited by David W. Galenson, pp. 84-85, note 40, 2009.

topic: Sky, Water, First Impression

Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky.

- Candace Bushnell

topic: Real, Rain, Sky, Soho, Movie Sets

Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky

- Carl Jung

topic: Sky, Ego, Earth

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

topic: Stars, Sky, One Day

Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question?

topic: Sky, Tree, Lovely

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky

topic: Intelligent, Night, Sky, Different Worlds, Night Sky