Sky Quotes

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

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

From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Women hold up half the sky.

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

Music fathoms the sky.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

I believe that if we get out of people's way, the sky's the limit. The sky is the limit.

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.

The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent.

See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.

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

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

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.

Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast.

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

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.

I promised each and every Hulkamaniac when I went to that great battlefield in the sky I would bring the WWF title with me.

We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all 'rose.'

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.

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

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

I am always looking up towards the sky; that is how I am.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.

The sky isn't falling.

Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

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

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

The sky seemed filled with diving planes and the black bursts of exploding antiaircraft shells.

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.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, it turns and turns to say Good-by!

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

I always start a painting with the sky.

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.

My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.