Stars Quotes - page 4

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only a human can reach for the stars or even know what that means. (Vilayanur S. Ramachandran)
There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. View quote
Richard Feynman
Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon... View quote
William Butler Yeats
When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see Did he who made the Lamb make thee. View quote
William Blake
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century. View quote
James Russell Lowell
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn. View quote
William Wordsworth
The stars of midnight shall be dear To her and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. View quote
William Wordsworth
If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness? View quote
Vitruvius
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art. View quote
Vitruvius
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If the stars should appear just one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. View quote
Victor Hugo
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? View quote
Lord Byron
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe. View quote
Brian Greene
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. View quote
William Shakespeare
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next. View quote
Mark Twain
Kings are like stars,they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance. View quote
Albert Einstein
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. View quote
John Burroughs
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. View quote
Martin Luther