Heavens

Famous quotes containing the word heavens:

“When the ice is covered with snow, I do not suspect the wealth under my feet; that there is as good as a mine under me wherever I go. How many pickerel are poised on easy fin fathoms below the loaded wain! The revolution of the seasons must be a curious phenomenon to them. At length the sun and wind brush aside their curtain, and they see the heavens again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I never saw
The heavens so dim by day. A savage clamor!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Needles in a heavenly haystack. There are more stars in the heavens than there are human beings on earth.”
—Sydney Boehm (1908–1990)