Quotes of Firmament - somelinesforyou

“ Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament. ”

- Thomas Arnold

“ The firmament of the Bible is ablaze with answers to prayer. ”

- Theodore L. Cuyler

“ Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence. ”

- Philippus A. Paracelsus

“ The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little, — And that's the skies! ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. ”

- Alan Watts

“ Oval Office in the sky. ”

- Hillary Clinton

“ How 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 mountaintop 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 a firmament for its roof — and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track. ”

- John Muir

“ Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… ”

- Philippus A. Paracelsus

“ Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long… ”

- James Thurber

“ Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven. ”

- Philippus A. Paracelsus
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