Northern Lights Quotes:

In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!

- Vincent Massey

source: Address to the Annual Dinner of the Canadian Press, Toronto, April 18, 1956.

topic: Light, Facts, Northern Lights

The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound fiery crimson like the fires of Hell, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer.

- Philip Pullman

source: Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

topic: Fire, Light, Sight, Northern Lights

The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea

- Arthur Rimbaud

topic: Kissing, Light, Sea, Northern Lights

The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the darkAnd we may lose everything in the windBut the Northern Lights are burningAnd they're giving off sparks.

- Jim Steinman

source: Song: Bad For Good, Album: Bad for Good

topic: Cutting, Light, Knives, Northern Lights

Frost is but slender weeks away, Tonight the sunset glow will stay, Swing to the north and burn up higher And Northern Lights wall earth with fire. Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, And yet the cold blue word is spoken: Say goodbye to the sun. The days of love and leaves are done.

- Robert P. T. Coffin

topic: Goodbye, Wall, Sunset, Northern Lights

There will be natural propriety in using an eastern light for bedrooms and libraries, a western light in winter for baths and winter apartments, and a northern light for picture galleries and other places in which a steady light is needed; for that quarter of the sky grows neither light nor dark with the course of the sun, but remains steady and unshifting all day long.

- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

source: "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II, Section 7,

topic: Dark, Winter, Light, Northern Lights

Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights. But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora. To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain. What's your excuse?

- Vera Nazarian

topic: Beautiful, Christmas, Running, Aurora, Reindeer

I try to show everybody Iceland all the time. My people are like, "Don't tell everybody the secret. It's so peaceful and beautiful here!" It's incredible; I go home and drive across country, and go to my mom's place and it's dark with the Northern Lights, and I like to sit in some hot springs.

- Anita Briem

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

topic: Beautiful, Mom, Country, Northern Lights

Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.

- Christopher

source: 'A Song to David' (1763) st. 85

topic: Song, Light, Catholic, Dens, Northern Lights

There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.

- Michael Morpurgo

topic: Children, Book, Writing, Northern Lights