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

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Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...

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The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...

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Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...

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The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...

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

It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that ...

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Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together al...

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Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky wa...

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

It doesnot matter; there’s many a heavenly body in the lot crowding upon us ofa night that mankind h...

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

My experiences remind me that it's those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.

...knowing too that [the sky] was just a kind of rainbow made it glorious. A rainbow that was blue e...

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I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of t...

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The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the ...

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He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a f...

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Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa...

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...yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a go...

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Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at grou...

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God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves w...

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Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and ...

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One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion sta...

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

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

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Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then - our cities and towns cast too much light into ...

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There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized...

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Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everyth...

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I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a cit...

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At night the sky is pure astronomy.

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Nicole KraussMan Walks Into a Room

...That Great Cocktail Cabinet in the Sky...

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Nigella LawsonNigella Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die Lift not your ...

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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the ea...

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The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orang...

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If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... t...

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and prese...

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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natu...

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When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! Yo...

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Twilight was laying claim to the cité, and the sky was a deepening shade of lavender, spangled with ...

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Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the day...

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None of them knew the color of the sky.

The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen someth...

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The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin t...

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The sky of the color of ashes in the east and embers in the west.

Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possibl...

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My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because h...

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Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious sailors always are. There is something in the illimi...

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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The s...

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

The afternoon had passed to a ghostly gray. She was struck by the immensity of things, so much water...

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A few flat clouds folded themselves like crepes over fillings of apricot sky. Pompadours of supper-t...

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There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ...

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The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.

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Tony AbbottThe Forbidden Stone

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss m...

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He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: th...

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What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so litt...

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw com...

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Virginia WoolfJacob's Room

. . . distant views seemed to outlast by a million years (Lily thought) the gazer and to be communin...

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So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all o...

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You never get tired of looking at the stars

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Warren EllisThe Planetary Omnibus

The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars whi...

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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look...

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I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who ...

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How clear, how lovely bright,How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play;How heaven laughs ou...

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

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. ...

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You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark ...

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I will sit in the car on the way to a meeting and just smile. I really mean that. It helps you get t...

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She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...

In the great meteor shower of August, the Perseid, I wail all day for the shooting stars I miss. The...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The Moon is slipping from our grasp at a rate of about 1.5 inches a year. In another two billion yea...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is ...

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Carl SaganThe Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecuewe are unwanted and burni...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

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

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Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of...

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the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.

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

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky....

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He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of ...

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Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally...

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We were at sixty thousand feet. You’re thirty percent lighter upthere.

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.

The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the ...

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For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too...

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And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they...

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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

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E. B. WhiteThe Points Of My Compass

All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possesse...

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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the ene...

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

The sky, I thought, is not so grand;I 'most could touch it with my hand!And reaching up my hand to t...

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Edna St. Vincent MillayThe Selected Poetry

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a...

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I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated....

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