“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
“The clouds, and not the stars, to them
The omen and the sign be given—
The clouds, the vapours of our soil,
Not stars, whose element is heaven.
The deepening shade, the flitting light,
Mark what each coming month will know—
The passing joy, the constant care,
Of life's sad pilgrimage below.”
The London Literary Gazette, 1833-1835
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“Here white sea-born clouds companion
With such peaks as know the stars!”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) American judge
"Juanita".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Context: p>Rugged! Rugged as Parnassus!
Rude, as all roads I have trod —
Yet are steeps and stone-strown passes
Smooth o'er head, and nearest God.Here black thunders of my canyon
Shake its walls in Titan wars!
Here white sea-born clouds companion
With such peaks as know the stars!</p
“It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship.”
Omar Bradley (1893–1981) United States Army field commander during World War II
Statement (31 May 1948), quoted in An Inconvenient Truth : The Planetary Emergency Of Global Warming And What We Can Do About It (2006) by Al Gore
“I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.”
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
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George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
Many attribute this quote to Marshall, however, General Omar Bradley is the correct author. Statement by Bradley (31 May 1948), quoted in An Inconvenient Truth : The Planetary Emergency Of Global Warming And What We Can Do About It (2006) by Al Gore.
Misattributed
“Sky—what a scowl of cloud
Till, near and far,
Ray on ray split the shroud:
Splendid, a star!”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
The two Poets of Croisic.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
