sky quotes

• Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. (John Updike) [sky/life]
• As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness! (Albert Camus) [day/sky/sadness]
• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd. (Albert Camus) [beauty/sky/more/absurd]
• A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [people/sky/sky/change]
• The Brain is wider than the sky-. (Emily Dickinson) [brain/sky]
• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [sky/eyes]
• Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. (Eric Hoffer) [sky/god]
• For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [age/youth/sky/day]
• I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. (John Masefield) [sky/ship]
• Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. (Herman Melville) [look/human/sky/god]
• The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. (John Ruskin) [sky/creation/nature]
• Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. (John Updike) [sky/life]
• In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention. (Simone Weil) [solitude/matter/sky/value]
• I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. (Oscar Wilde) [sky]
• This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. (William Wordsworth) [beauty/morning/sky]
• Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent. (William Wordsworth) [take/sky/motion]
• I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing. (Leonardo DiCaprio) [sky/thing]
• “Girl when the nights cold I'm warm holding the fact That I got you holding my back With my feelings stealing the blue of the sky leaving them grey Girl you the sun to brighten up my day When it seem like the hill to steep and my vision getting blurry Call on you my dove be there in a hurry When all is gone wrong and I can't go on you my angel immortalised in song baby forever” (Will Smith) [cold/feelings/sky/sun]
• “(It was) like a giant hand reaching down from the sky, grabbing me like a frog, and throwing me full force into a concrete wall. I looked back just in time to see the water as it hit me ... I felt my life flash before my eyes ... I slammed into the rock, on my side. And I could feel the cracking of bone.” (Tom Green) [giant/sky/time/water]
• “Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.” (Adolf Hitler) [sky]
• There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since. (Charisma Carpenter) [chance/sky/sky]
• “I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.” (Whoopi Goldberg) [sky]
• My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging. (Christopher Meloni) [writers/sky]
• The different water colours create a powerful effect, and the sky last night was just so beautiful and breathtaking. And the frogs! I love the sound of these little frogs. (Jacqueline Bisset) [water/sky/night/love]
• No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. (Bob Dylan) [sky]
• There’s beauty in the silver singing river, There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love’s eyes (Bob Dylan) [beauty/beauty/sky/beauty]
• You don’t want no pie in the sky when you die,/ You want something here on the ground while you’re still around. (Muhammad Ali) [sky]
• Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. (Joe Hill) [sky]
• I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today. (James Callaghan) [sky]

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