Quotes: Sky

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

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It’s much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

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

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it’s nascent.

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!