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)