Sky Quotes

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

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

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

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.

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.

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.

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.

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

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.

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

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.

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.