Points Of Light Quotes:

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

- George H. W. Bush

topic: Dream, Moving, Light, Points Of Light

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

- George H. W. Bush

topic: Love, Peace, Stars, Character Education, Points Of Light

Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Love, Romantic, Valentines Day, New Moon, Saga

I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.

- George H. W. Bush

source: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.304, e-artnow sro

topic: Stars, Light, Organization, Points Of Light

We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.

- George H. W. Bush

topic: Light, Illumination, Giving, Points Of Light, Higher Purpose

If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?

- Carl Sagan

topic: Tonight, Sun, Realizing, Points Of Light

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Religious, Stars, Science, Chauvinism, Citadels

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

- Ransom Riggs

topic: Life, Stars, Light, Points Of Light

The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.

- Joyce Kilmer

source: Joyce Kilmer (1911). “Summer of Love”

topic: Sweet, Angel, White, Faerie, Points Of Light

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

- Randy Travis

topic: Philosophy, Sight, Light, Points Of Light

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

- Radclyffe Hall

source: Radclyffe Hall (2005). “The Well of Loneliness”, p.214, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Men, Light, Darkness, Points Of Light

Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.

- Barney Frank

topic: Senior, Country, Light, Points Of Light

Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.214, Broadview Press

topic: Science, Men, Light, Zodiac, Points Of Light

My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.

- Sarah Manguso

source: Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.165, Granta

topic: Arrows, Light, Forever, Points Of Light

At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and looked out of the window at the stars. I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want them in my hair the way they are in paintings of the gods. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Stars, Book, Moon, Milky Way, Points Of Light

Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Night, Thinking, Light, Points Of Light, Embers

Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. But if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just barely for a few moments.

- Haruki Murakami

source: FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 19, 2016

topic: Eye, Night, Light, Points Of Light

The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Past, Reality, Hands, Indian Tribes, Empty Space

As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Uplifting, Dream, Spiritual, Spiritual Beauty, Points Of Light

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Heart, Light, Shining, Life Of Pi Book, Points Of Light

Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is extractable from hydrogen and other light elements, and it is an everyday reality throughout the Milky Way Galaxy.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Time And Energy, Points Of Light

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.

- W. H. Auden

source: "September 1, 1939" l. 92 (1939) See George H.W. Bush 3

topic: Lying, Night, Dust, Negation, Eros

Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap, the coffee, the rice, to iron the pants, to braid the hair, to pull the day's water up from the well, to boil water for tea, to wash the children for school, to pull the vegetables and start the walk to market, to run to catch the bus for the work that is paid. I don't know when most women sleep.

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Running, Children, Twilight, Braids, Points Of Light

It has always irked me as improper that there are still so many people for whom the sky is no more than a mass of random points of light. I do not see why we should recognize a house, a tree, or a flower here below and not, for example, the red Arcturus up there in the heavens as it hangs from its constellation Bootes, like a basket hanging from a balloon.

- M. C. Escher

topic: Flower, Light, Sky, Points Of Light

Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It's the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space with wonder, just as we do.

- Frank Drake

topic: Stars, Lying, Home, Astronomers, Points Of Light

In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

- Martin Rees

topic: Stars, Children, Light, Points Of Light, Solar System

Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.

- Jeanette Winterson

source: Jeanette Winterson (1991). “Sexing the Cherry”, Vintage

topic: Wall, Real, Light, Points Of Light

I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don't know how to play. Those are the points of light, the former students.

- Rafe Esquith

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Phds, Points Of Light, Former Students

I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars.... And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a star but really close. The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light.... The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It was a kind of religious experience. There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Points Of Light

The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Dream, Stars, Dark, Firmament, Points Of Light

You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.

- Bruce Dickinson

topic: Mother, Wall, Book, Points Of Light, Muzzle

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

- Neil Young

topic: Gun, Men, Light, Points Of Light