In Jerusalem, the Skies are Lower.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey
Atatürk's comment on aerospace-aeronautics, as quoted in Modernism and Nation-Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic (2001), p. 126 by Sibel Bozdoğan
“rainbows apologizing for angry skies”
Barbara Ann Kipfer (1954) American linguist and lexicographer
14,000 Things to Be Happy About
“It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.”
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint
When asked whether it was becoming for a cardinal to ski (Cardinal Wojtyła was an avid skier).
Source: [Pakenham Longford (Earl of), Frank, 1982, Pope John Paul II: an authorized biography, W. Morrow]
“The son of parents pass'd into the skies.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The shrill echoes ring amidst the skies.”
Christopher Pitt (1699–1748) English poet
Book IV, line 960
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)
“Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
#83
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Flames in the forehead of the morning sky", John Milton, Lycidas, line 168.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
“They change their skies above them,
But not their hearts that roam!”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
The Native-Born, Stanza 2 (1895).
The Seven Seas (1896)
“Oh, for the simple life,
For tents and starry skies!”
Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) British writer
Aspiration.
“Close your eyes, and see the skies are falling.”
Josh Homme (1973) American musician
"The Sky Is Fallin'", Songs for the Deaf (2002)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age
