Sayings about The Stars
Even a small star shines in the dark. ~ Finnish Proverbs
If the king says that it is night in the middle of the day, look up at the stars. ~ Arabian Proverb
You can’t look at the stars while you are walking if you have a stone in your shoe. ~ Chinese Proverb
The little stars will always shine while the great sun is often eclipsed. ~ Ethiopian Proverbs
If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars? ~ Tunisian Proverbs
If the moon is with you, you need not care about the stars. ~ African Proverb
If the goat had a longer tail he could wipe the stars clean. ~ Czech Proverb
The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us. ~ Indian Proverbs
When the moon is not full, the stars shine more brightly. ~ Ugandan Proverbs
If you have the moon, ignore the stars. ~ Moorish Proverb
The stars shine brightest when the moon is gone. ~ Nigerian Proverbs
Quotations about The Stars
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system. ~ Kalpana Chawla
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. ~ Harriet Tubman
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
Humans are natural-born scientists. When we’re born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises. ~ Michio Kaku
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
And though they shine, some more, some less, when they are out of his sight, yet in his presence they shine no more than the stars in the presence of the sun. ~ Thomas Hobbes
The gems of heaven, that gild night’s sable throne. ~ John Dryden
These preachers of beauty, which light the world with their admonishing smile. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars. ~ Bette Davis
Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other. ~ Sojourner Truth
Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars? ~ Jeb Bush
We sit in the mud… and reach for the stars. ~ Ivan Turgenev
No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been. ~ Adelaide Anne Procter
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. ~ William Shakespeare Quotes
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. ~ Gilbert Parker
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how men would believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the City of God which has been shown! ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes. ~ James Altucher
The stars that have most glory have no rest. ~ Samuel Daniel
A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow. ~ Barry Cornwall
I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star. ~ Carl Sagan
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either. ~ Leo Burnett
The stars, heav’n sentry, wink and seem to die. ~ Nathaniel Lee
Turn your scars into stars. ~ Robert H. Schuller
We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. ~ George H. W. Bush Quotes
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! ~ Lord Byron Quotes
There is no death. The stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven’s jeweled crown, they shine forevermore. ~ John Luckey McCreery
No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is. ~ James Fenimore Cooper
The eternal jewels of the short-lived night. ~ Mary Mapes Dodge
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. ~ Og Mandino Quotes
The world is great; the stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach. ~ George Eliot Quotes
When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. ~ Thomas Carlyle
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. ~ Helen Keller Quotes
The stars don’t look bigger, but they do look brighter. ~ Sally Ride
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? ~ Carl Sagan
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. ~ e. e. cummings
I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present. ~ Anne Lamott
The ignorant man takes counsel of the stars; but the wise man takes counsel of God, who made the stars. ~ Jaafar
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. ~ Les Brown
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. ~ Gary Allan
As Americans, we can’t help but reach for the stars. It’s our nature. It’s our destiny. ~ Bill Frist
You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable. ~ Cathy Freeman
Still singing as they shine. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The stars are so far, far away! ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul. ~ Victor Hugo Quotes
Teach me your mood, O patient stars! who climb each night the ancient sky. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The stars stand sentinel by night. ~ John Norris of Bemerton
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. ~ Christopher Marlowe
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ~ Richard P. Feynman
Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars. ~ Jack Kerouac
There is no easy way to the stars from the earth. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
These blessed candles of the night. ~ William Shakespeare
Hitch your wagon to a star. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. ~ Stephen Hawking
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. ~ Ben Jonson
Surely the stars are images of love. ~ Philip James Bailey
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. ~ Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
I think the Earth and everything around it is connected – the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery. ~ Marion Cotillard
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems. ~ Max Lucado
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ~ Victor Hugo
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. ~ Thomas Carlyle
A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity. ~ Thomas Carlyle
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. ~ William Butler Yeats
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. ~ Alan Watts
Who falls for love of God shall rise a star. ~ Ben Jonson
Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. ~ John Lennon
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. ~ Christopher Marlowe
I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds. ~ Mike Tyson
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? ~ E. M. Forster
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
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
The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us. ~ Dennis Banks
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled. ~ Georg Buchner
I think you should aim for the stars – and hopefully avoid ending up in the clouds! ~ Roxanne McKee
We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. ~ Ruth St. Denis
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. ~ John Milton
The stars hang bright above, silent, as if they watched the sleeping earth. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently. ~ Bill Watterson
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. ~ Omar N. Bradley
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars – when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. ~ Thomas Aquinas
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~ Oscar Wilde Quotes
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. ~ Henry Van Dyke
There’s no night without stars. ~ Andre Norton
