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Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark. -- Robert W. Service
The Night Sky is not just another planisphere. I think The Night Sky is the finest and easiest to use star finding aid in existence. -- Jack Horkheimer
Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations. -- Robert Breault
No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. -- Llewelyn Powys
There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky. -- Fritz Leiber
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon. -- Galileo Galilei
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. -- Haruki Murakami
That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights. -- Rumi
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion. -- Carl Sagan
When you miss me just look up to the night sky and remember, I'm like a star; sometimes you can't see me, but I'm always there. -- Jayde Nicole
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world. -- Albert Camus
The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night. -- Yasunari Kawabata
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. -- Sai Baba
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. -- Victor Hugo
Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away. -- Carl Sagan
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe. -- Brian Greene
You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos. -- Tom Hanks
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own. -- Brian Andreas
The universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe--maybe it's countless other universes. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do. -- C. S. Lewis
Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are we in relation to them. -- David Gerrold
I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken. But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is. -- Lana Del Rey
At night the sky is pure astronomy. -- Nicole Krauss
in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems -- e. e. cummings
The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
That night, as the stars sparkled in the sky, Polly dreamed -- Brian Maunder
The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. -- Frederic Lawrence Knowles
The night sky made her feel infinite before she knew the word. -- Thomm Quackenbush
I miss you more than the sun misses the sky at night. -- Taylor Swift
Flowers open every night across the sky, a breathing peace, and sudden flame catching. -- Rumi
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Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace am I. -- Rumi
You cannot appreciate the beauty of the sky at night without these five shining lights. -- Onew
All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars. -- Joseph Heller
I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. -- Aleister Crowley
The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead -- Tegan Quin
The religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky... -- John J. Geddes
Be guided by the stars which you place well on the canopy of your night sky. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
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the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky -- John Geddes
In a beautiful night, under the stars, man always feels himself above the sky, beside the God! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
That night it did not rain as much in the sky as it did in his heart. -- Faraaz Kazi
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then. -- Albert Camus
Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky. -- Rick Yancey
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The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. -- Paul Bowles
The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. -- Paul Bowles
Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know. -- John Boyne
To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach. -- Teresa Medeiros
The ancients wrote down the first scripture of choreography by observing in the night sky movements of the dancing stars. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this? -- Rumi
How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue? -- Susan Abulhawa
[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air. -- Charles Dickens
His blue eyes were very dark...Will's were the colour of the sky just on the edge of the night... -- Cassandra Clare
It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music -- Henning Mankell
A star-spangled sky and you were looking the other way,the night beckoned and waited and you waited for the day. -- Saleem Sharma
As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are. -- Peter Cook
When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky. -- Linda Ronstadt
Have confidence. Like the first spark of morning light against the entire night sky recognize the Power and Brilliance within you. -- Marrett Green
I've stood outside my house in Montana looking at the northern lights... crackling against the night sky. To me, that's magic. -- Christopher Paolini
The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint. -- Frank Marshall Davis
Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue. -- George MacDonald
I loved you before all of this. When there was nothing. When there was only a single atom in the night sky. -- Dominic Riccitello
Place a name upon the night One to set your heart alight And to make the darkness bright Paint the sky with stars. -- Enya
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs. -- Carl Sagan
No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
When life is difficult, try looking up at the night sky. A million stars proclaim aloud His Handiwork. And you know you are never alone. -- Anusha Atukorala
Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou went by. -- George Linley
At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space. -- Natalie Wood
I got to bed later than mostPeople to see the moon in the night sky.And wake up earlier than most people to watch the Sunrise. -- Bed
Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations. -- Thornton Wilder
The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them. -- Rosemary Mahoney
When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars. -- Khushwant Singh
I go to bed later than mostPeople to see the moon in the night sky.And wake up earlier than most people to watch the Sunrise. -- Darnell Houston
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night. -- William C. Bryant
Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star. -- Abbie Cornish
..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling. -- Mark Haddon
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now -- Hayley Williams
When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are in relation to them. -- David Gerrold
I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing, sky diving, driving at night. -- Glenn McQuaid
When the night arrives, I often look up at the bright sky only to close my eyes and see the light within. Everything above so is below. -- Nikhil Sharda
If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night. -- Vanna Bonta
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers... -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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In the storm-lit darkness, the beaded sweat and raindrops on her arm were like so many glittering stars, and her skin was like a span of night sky. -- Gregory David Roberts
But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were? -- J. K. Rowling
It was a chilly morning after the night's rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by someone high up in the clouds. -- Cornelia Funke
The choice is ours to make whether the stars in the night sky shine upon us as headlights of an approaching paradise or as tail-lights of receding fortunes -- Agona Apell
Consequences. They rage inside me, that black chaos of night sky wedged under my ribs. There are some consequences so unacceptable we have to fight against them every day. -- Tessa Gratton
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. -- Walt Whitman
All the stars all the galaxies are in the same spot night after night after night. And Planet Nine, when we see it, will slowly move across the sky. -- Mike Brown
But the warriors true, the brave of heart Who valiently upheld the right They are raised on high to the velvet sky Bringing light to the darkness of night -- Brian Jacques
Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that. -- Janette Rallison
Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky... -- John Noble
Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question? -- Carl Sagan
The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of starsLetting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things." -- Sylvia Plath
Programmers have been wandering out and shooting a shotgun into the night sky and hoping they hit something, and I end up paying $150 for channels full of nothing I want to watch. -- Rick Smolan
A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose. -- Paul Bowles
The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things. -- Sylvia Plath
The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent. -- Barbara Demick
Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.' -- Ellen Stofan
He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul. -- Cornelia Funke
Creation is the vocal chords of God speaking each day through the colors of the sunrise, the vastness of the night sky,the teeming of life in the ocean, the majesty of the mountains. -- Eric Samuel Timm
The morning, which is like a farewell that approaches slowly from far away, while smiling... We are the sunshine in the night sky. It's as if the Night is sleepwalking. Slowly, we'll be forgotten. -- Lee Bo-na
The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less. -- Cormac McCarthy
Indeed, the night sky is the part of our environment that's been common to all cultures throughout human history. All have gazed up at the 'vault of heaven' and interpreted it in their own way. -- Martin Rees

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