Quotes of Luminary - somelinesforyou

“ The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ”

- Havelock Ellis

“ I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. ”

- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

“ The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods. ”

- Gary Player

“ He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. ”

- Confucius

“ Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere. - Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It isnt a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. ”

- Benjamin Mays

“ Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The sun, moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands. ”

- Havelock Ellis

“ Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. ”

- Daniel Defoe

“ Well we all shine onLike the moon and the stars and the sunWell we all shine onEv'ryone come on. ”

- John Lennon

“ When the SunClearest shinethSerenest in the heaven,Quickly are obscuredAll over the earthOther stars. ”

- Boethius

“ We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way pleases them. ”

- John Webster

“ There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. ”

- Unknown

“ The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant. ”

- Roger Zelazny

“ All we ever see of stars are their old photographs. ”

- Alan Moore

“ I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The stars are golden fruit upon a treeAll out of reach. ”

- George Eliot

“ A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,And pavement stars. ”

- John Milton

“ Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars. ”

- J. R. R. Tolkien

“ There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. ”

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“ If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together. ”

- Rita Dove

“ On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky. Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading, Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky, Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east, Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter, And nigh at hand, only a very little above, Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades… ”

- Walt Whitman

“ It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. ”

- Benjamin E. Mays

“ It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars. ”

- Paul Newman

“ If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing. ”

- Roger Ebert

“ We had to leave Australia to become international stars. ”

- Barry Gibb
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