(6 quotes found)
“The spacious firmament on high, / And all the blue ethereal sky, / And spangled heavens, a shining frame, / Their great Original proclaim.”
Joseph Addison
“And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.”
Bible
“Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.”
“If this fail, / The pillared firmament is rottenness, / And earth's base built on stubble.”
John Milton
“And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.”
“The thing is, in today's political firmament Jim Black stands out because he's not ideological. He isn't identified with a particular point of view or a set of strongly held beliefs. He comes at legislation by trying to figure out how do you build a majority.”
Ferrel Guillory