| Author |
Quotes |
| Bible | Canst thou bind, the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? |
| Bible | Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? |
| Bible | Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? |
| Bible | They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. |
| William Cullen Bryant | The sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires, The glorious host of light Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires, All through her silent watches, gliding slow, Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | No one sees what is before his feet, we all gaze at the stars. |
| Edmund Burke | The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasion to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity. |
| Joseph Addison | The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Forever singing, as they shine, The hand that made us is divine. |
| Philip James Bailey | What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies? |
| Philip James Bailey | Surely the stars are images of love. |
| Philip James Bailey | The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields Of heaven. |
| Samuel Butler | A grisly meteor on his face. |
| Samuel Butler | This hairy meteor did announce The fall of sceptres and of crowns. |
| Samuel Butler | Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes. |
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