Heavens Quotes

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(on John Wayne) John Wayne was a star because he always played John Wayne. Frankly, he wasn`t an excellent actor, but good heavens, what a star! It wasn`t John Wayne who served the roles; the roles served John Wayne.

- Kirk Douglas

Am I finished with Hollywood? Good heavens, no! I shall certainly go back there if there is a film to make.

- Vivien Leigh

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

Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there`s more.

- Patti Smith

The reason people think I look good now is because I was never a beauty as a wee girl. And thank heavens. It`s frightening to get old anyway, but if your looks were the cornerstone of your life, well, it would be very difficult.

- Lulu

After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen.

- Nostradamus

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

- G.K. Chesterton

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

- Brian Greene

The rains in Washington on the day that Pope John Paul II died were unusually ferocious, as if the heavens were weeping with uncontrollable sadness.

- Suzanne Fields

A child`s tear rends the heavens.

- Aharon Appelfeld

That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.

- Alan Labrosse

On my watch, I`ve been privileged to peer into the future of dynamic citizen astronauts routinely flying to and from the heavens.

- Alan Norquist

During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

- Alan Norquist

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers` battle with the heavens that cover them.

- Alessandro Banchi

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

- Alex Gruzen

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

- Alex Linnenkohl

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush`s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

- Alex Redmond

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

- Alexander Veshnyakov

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

- Alice Spring

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

- Allayne Barrilleaux

Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.

- Amani Abeid Karume

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

- Andrew Eakle

If thou art called to pass through tribulations; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou art in perils among robbers; if thou art in perils by land or by sea; if thou art accused with all manner of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren and sisters; and if with a drawn sword thine enemies tear thee from the bosom of thy wife, and of thine offspring, and thine elder son, although but six years of age, shall cling to thy garments, and shall say, My father, my father, why can`t you stay with us? O, my father, what are the men going to do with you? and if then he shall be thrust from thee by the sword, and thou be dragged to prison, and thine enemies prowl around thee like wolves for the blood of the lamb; and if thou shouldest be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep, if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good. The Son of Man (Jesus Christ) hath descended below them all; art thou greater than he?

- Andy Law

That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover'¢ our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion'¢ or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw'¢ themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved

- Andy Law

The non-existent was not; the existent was not at that time. The atmosphere was not nor the heavens which are beyond. What was concealed? Where? In whose protection? Was it water? An unfathomable abyss?

- Ann East

How can you compare me with Diego Maradona? That is simply ludicrous. Maradona is a star in the football heavens.

- Anna Kramer

There is nothing, nowhere, neither on earth nor in heavens, that can make the true untrue or the untrue true

- Anne Fox

Shoot for the stars, at least if you don`t reach it, you can land in the heavens.

- Annie Bunker

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

- Leon Battista Alberti