Sky Quotes - page 3

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry. (William Butler Yeats)
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. View quote
Douglas Adams
The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om. View quote
Eden Ahbez
I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The brain is wider than the sky. View quote
Emily Dickinson
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. View quote
William Wordsworth
The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky. View quote
William Wordsworth
From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honor of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright. View quote
Vitruvius
Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods. View quote
Vitruvius
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. (Vitruvius)
Rhodora If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. View quote
Victor Hugo
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit. View quote
Smedley Butler
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
And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear. View quote
Christopher Columbus
Novembers sky is chill and drear, Novembers leaf is red and sear. View quote
Walter Scott
That saints will aid if men will call For the blue sky bends over all. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. View quote
Christopher Morley
I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
When I look up to the sky between the narrow roofs, it reminds me of you, the one who is far, far away. (Masashi Kishimoto)
To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach. View quote
Teresa Medeiros
Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food. View quote
Ferran Adria
And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time. View quote
Gerald Scarfe
When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky. View quote
Eva Ibbotson