Sky Quotes

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know there's someone standing there to welcome you to the plane and I have to kind of get them to move a little bit so I can put my hand on the outside of the plane. It's not a natural thing to be up in the sky in a little metal tube.

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

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?

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

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

The sky isn't falling.

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.

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

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

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

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

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

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

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

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

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.

During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

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.

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?