Celestial Bodies

Famous quotes containing the words celestial bodies, celestial and/or bodies:

    “It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies.... Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Hear me, auld Hangie, for a wee,
    An’ let poor, damned bodies bee;
    I’m sure sma’ pleasure it can gie,
    Ev’n to a deil,
    To skelp an’ scaud poor dogs like me,
    An’ hear us squeel!”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)