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The night sky13 quotes
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. — Walt Whitman · 1867Thence we came forth to see the stars again. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. — Socrates · 375 BCHow hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof!...In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make—leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents, or piled stone—we all dwell in a house of one room—the world with the firmament for its roof—and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track. — John Muir · 1890In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1962The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes. — George Orwell · 1933All 13 quotes →Stars6 quotes
Thence we came forth to see the stars again. — Dante Alighieri · 1321In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1962The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes. — George Orwell · 1933And still they were the same bright, patient stars. — John Keats · 1820Till clombe above the eastern bar
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798I love this place at night. The stars...there's no right or wrong in them, they're just there. — Sgt. Elias · 1986The moon4 quotes
In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1962Till clombe above the eastern bar
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The moving Moon went up the sky,
And no where did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside- — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires: Hesperus that led
The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon
Rising in clouded Majesty, at length
Apparent Queen unveiled her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. — John Milton · 1667Astronomy2 quotes
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. — Socrates · 375 BCTill clombe above the eastern bar
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Being in love1 quote
Holding hands at midnight
'Neath a starry sky,
Nice work if you can get it,
And you can get it if you try. — Ira Gershwin · 1937Experiencing things1 quote
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. — Walt Whitman · 1867Love1 quote
Holding hands at midnight
'Neath a starry sky,
Nice work if you can get it,
And you can get it if you try. — Ira Gershwin · 1937Moonlight1 quote
Now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires: Hesperus that led
The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon
Rising in clouded Majesty, at length
Apparent Queen unveiled her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. — John Milton · 1667Morality1 quote
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant · 1788Natural law1 quote
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant · 1788Spending time in nature1 quote
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. — Walt Whitman · 1867Vietnam1 quote
I love this place at night. The stars...there's no right or wrong in them, they're just there. — Sgt. Elias · 1986