Sky Quotes

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

~ Clement Clarke Moore

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

~ Roger Ebert

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.

~ Sanford I. Weill

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

~ Pamela Hansford Johnson

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

~ John Lubbock

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

~ John Updike

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

~ Marcus Garvey

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

~ Henry David Thoreau

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.

~ William C. Bryant

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

~ Thomas Merton

There is the sky, which is all men's together.

~ Euripides

I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.

~ John Mackey

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

~ William C. Bryant

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

~ John Ruskin

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

~ Henry Morton Stanley

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

~ Charles Lindbergh

In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.

~ James Turrell

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

~ Rosalia De Castro

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

~ Herman Hesse

As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.

~ Ishmael Beah

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

~ Isabel Allende

All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

~ E. F. Benson

I love the food, the girls, the sky and everything that is Delhi. I have very fond memories of the Moolchand flyover.

~ Vir Das

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

~ Helen Keller

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

~ Albert Camus

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

~ John Dyer

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

~ Christopher Morley

Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.

~ John Thorn

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

~ Joan Rivers

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

~ Kanye West

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

~ Frank Mccourt

The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer has seen something unusual in the sky that he interprets as probable evidence of alien presence.

~ Seth Shostak

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

~ James Buchan

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

~ Craig Sager

In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures - quiet waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an owl, and the dark of a night sky unsullied by city lights - are sacrosanct.

~ Michael Shnayerson

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.

~ John Updike