(291 quotes found)
“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”
Chuang Tzu
“How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying seagulls, or how important that chestnut tree was to her, when she had never shown an interest in nature before. But once she felt like a caged bird, how she longed for it. Even just the thought of the open air gave her comfort, but she kept all these feelings to herself.”
Otto Frank
“Rainbows apologize for angry skies.”
Sylvia Voirol
“The Brain is wider than the sky.”
Emily Dickinson
“We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon”
Konrad Adenauer
“I saw a star, I reached for it, and I missed. So I accepted the sky.”
Scott Fortini
“We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.”
Mark Twain
“I fall to my knees, shake a rattle at the sky, I'm afraid that I'll be taken, abandoned, and forsaken in her cold coffee eyes.”
Paul Simon
“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.”
E. E. Cummings
“You don't want no pie in the sky when you die,/ You want something here on the ground while you're still around.”
Muhammad Ali
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