- Sun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sky Quotes
Moments framed by open sky and starlight.
These sky quotes capture the pull of open air — a flag flying with quiet pride, a city loved for its skyline and atmosphere, or an artist insisting on painting outdoors rather than from memory. The imagery pairs naturally with Blue quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
ISIS did not come down from the sky. They found the opportunity to grow, and the world allowed them to grow.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
- Bell
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working at the 'New York Times,' ruing every second of my life, thinking how was I ever going to get out of here, and thinking that one could only do it the way newspaper people have always done it. I needed a scoop, and I would go out and I would dream upon coming upon fires or the sky falling in front of me or anything.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many theories about the best way to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere - some are ludicrous, others are at least worth study. The most commonly discussed plan is to lace the sky with reflective chemicals.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020