STAR QUOTES II
quotations about stars
The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks,
They are all fire and every one doth shine,
But there's but one in all doth hold his place.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Julius Caesar
I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.
STEPHENIE MEYER
Twilight
Though beautiful, their brightness passes swiftly away, for if the life of flowers is but one day, in one short night the brightest star expires, but still we ask from this fleeting springtide of the sky now our good, now our ill; it is the register of our fate, whether the sun die or live. Oh! what duration is there that men should hope? What change can be hoped from a star, that every night is born again and dies?
CALDERON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Stars are like people. When they're young, they're small and dim. When they grow older, they fill out, slow down, and they get brighter.
JON JENKINS
"Kepler Discovers Earth's Closest Cousin Yet", Sky and Telescope, July 23, 2015
The stars--the stars, the twinkling stars!
Like fire-fly lights they glow;
Gleaming at fitful intervals,
On the busy world below.
Bright armies of the firmament,
They have their homes on high;
And sweep in beauty and in joy,
Upon the jewelled sky.
JOHN NELSON M'JILTON
"The Stars", Poems
These blessed candles of the night.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merchant of Venice
And we drifted to another state of mind
And imagined I was yours and you were mine
As we lay upon the grass
There in the dark
Underneath the stars
MARIAH CAREY
"Underneath the Stars"
You must be my lucky star
'Cause you shine on me wherever you are
I just think of you and I start to glow
And I need your light
MADONNA
"Lucky Star"
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky!
JANE TAYLOR
"The Star", Original Poems for Infant Minds
Stars are like time capsules, they lock away a sample of gas from which they form.
STEFAN KELLER
"The oldest star discovery tells much about the early universe", The Conversation, February 9, 2014
We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us, we make them, we are part of a dance from which we by no means and not ever may consider ourselves separate.
DORIS LESSING
Shikasta
The stars--the stars, the blooming stars!
Like little maidens fair;
Ye wander out at eventide,
To feel the freshning air.
And there ye have been walking forth,
In primal pride since ye
First sang creation's serenade,
In silent minstrelsy.
JOHN NELSON M'JILTON
"The Stars", Poems
Those who study the stars have Deity for their teacher.
TYCHO BRAHE
attributed, Day's Collacon
A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,
And pavement stars.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
The stars are teachers of wisdom.
ALPHONSO X
attributed, Day's Collacon
Ev'ry man, has a flaming star
A flaming star, over his shoulder
And when a man, sees his flaming star
He knows his time, his time has come
ELVIS PRESLEY
"Flaming Star"
Heaven's ebon vault,
Studded with stars unutterably bright,
Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,
Seems like a canopy which love has spread
To curtain her sleeping world.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Queen Mab
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
Hercules Furens
Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
Shining afar through shadows dim
Giving the light to those who long have gone
Guiding the Wise Men on their way
EMMYLOU HARRIS
"Beautiful Star of Bethlehem"
Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality