From The Sky Quotes

#1. ... I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky. (p.275)

Mark Nepo

#2. A breeze blew so clean and sweet, that one could not think that it blew from the sky; it blew rather through some hole in the sky.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. Even a passenger on an airplane falling from the sky can't shake the hope that he'll be the one to survive.

Koji Suzuki

#4. she'd forgotten snow could be quite so beautiful. Snow, in her experience, was something that needed to be removed. It was a chore that fell from the sky. But

Louise Penny

#5. He patted the side of the wyrm's head. The animal did not react: it was a stone fallen from the sky, still smoldering.

Zachary Jernigan

#6. The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Pablo Picasso

#7. She was a girl and she was a queen and back in the mists she was a woman who had seized the moon from the sky and drunk its light so that she would never die. And she never had.

Laini Taylor

#8. We filled the night air with light and shone brighter than all those millions of glittering stars watching us from the sky.

Kenya Wright

#9. I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

Toni Onley

#10. She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. ( ... ), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

Scott Westerfeld

#11. Right and wrong aren't dropped from the sky. We. We make them. Against misery. Invariably, Harry, invariably
he grows confident of his ability to negotiate long words
misery follows their disobedience. Not our own, often at first not our own.

John Updike

#12. Snowflakes fell from the sky like tiny pieces of a snowman who had stood on a landmine.

Alan Partridge

#13. Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast,
A full-hatched beauty seems to nest
Nor snow, which falling from the sky
Hovers in its virginity.

Henry Noel Brailsford

#14. They read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house.

Ray Bradbury

#15. When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!
when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?

Ray Bradbury

#16. There was nothing normal or typical about our love. We should've been one hot mess of madness for all that we'd suffered, but just as a flower grows from the sky's tears, our love grew from pain. It blossomed in darkness and thrived with time.

Keri Lake

#17. It dances on the air for a moment before it falls, too. A fresh gust of wind almost saves it, but a worker catches sight of it and lifts a tube up to suck the paper from the air, to suck the words from the sky.
I'm sorry, Grandfather.

Ally Condie

#18. In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture ... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

John Ruskin

#19. I'm taking my mortal as my mate. You love me, I love you, we're connected, what we have is beautiful and that's all it'll ever be. For eternity. Until the end of days. Until the sun falls from the sky, all you and I will share is beauty.

Kristen Ashley

#20. And her heart burst like the stars do in the end, and She fell on her knees. But the whole world looked her in awe. She lit the whole universe with her fire for a moment. In the end, she was as beautiful as the stardust falling from the sky and her heart didn't ache anymore.

Akshay Vasu

#21. It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.

Will Rogers

#22. Once upon a time, a man came from the sky and killed my wife. Beside him now, I walk on a mountain that floats over our world.

Pierce Brown

#23. Say a miracle happened and you could pull stars from the sky. Even if that happened there's no way I would give up a game for you.

Kim Su-mi

#24. My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.

Marc Chagall

#25. Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.

Mitch Albom

#26. The idea to go West just fell into my lap from the sky. Go west, young man. That's how the best ideas happen. Just out of nowhere. When you're not even thinking. Like they've been created for you and you just have to reach out and grab them before someone else does.

Shannon Mullen

#27. There is a falling from the sky
The sacred hoop is broken
But different hands with different voice
Hear the ancient songs
And soon
All men will see
That truth and justice
Must
Prevail.

Laurence Overmire

#28. All maps are fiction when the world is seen from the sky. But if ten thousand dragons choose to believe in this one, I think you will find it nearer truth than otherwise.

Naomi Novik

#29. You'd been in Sunday school long enough to know how the story goes: the voice of God comes down from the sky and asks you to go where you don't want to go, to do what you don't want to do. And you have to do it anyway.

Addie Zierman

#30. For you, my love, I would endeavor to pluck the stars from the sky, only to shower them at your feet."
"How do you do that?'
"Do what?"
"Say things like that. That's beautiful."
"I've spent years studying poetry, Mrs. Emerson. It's in my DNA.

Sylvain Reynard

#31. Sometimes we believe in miracles, and stars fall from the sky, as if the moon had poured his tears in gold.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#32. Soon, she began to sense that the night sky she saw above her was somehow different from the sky she was used to see. The strangeness of it was subtle but undeniable.

Haruki Murakami

#33. The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

Nostradamus

#34. I rise from the moist crevice of thought,
I beat on the shores of her holy body,
I fall from the sky in silver sheets of sadness.
Rise onto me my precious sun.

A.P. Sweet

#35. I still don't know where you came from," he says. "Some days it's like you just fell from the sky."
"Some days I feel like I did." I say.

Lauren DeStefano

#36. I'm mortal. I could die any day." Brandon had almost killed her. Her parents had died young. Her grandfather would have died yesterday. "I'm Warrick Voclain. And you will stay by my side until the stars fall from the sky.

Erin Kellison

#37. Everything started the night I saw the burning man fall from the sky.

Gwen Hayes

#38. Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

Jandy Nelson

#39. There are only three things you can do when something falls from the sky,' my archdruid used to say. 'Get out of the way, get underneath some shelter, or give it some reason to change its mind about falling on you.' Then he threw a pissed-off rooster at me.

Kevin Hearne

#40. He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

Larry McMurtry

#41. What is rain? It is thousands of drop-friends coming from the sky!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#42. When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.

Van Morrison

#43. At dusk they pour from the sky. They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutter into the ravines between houses. Entire streets swirl with them, flashing white against the cobbles. Urgent message to the inhabitants of this town, they say. Depart immediately to open country.

Anthony Doerr

#44. My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.

Charlaine Harris

#45. It is raining! In other words little poems are coming down from the sky! Nature is literature! Sun is a fable; forest is a story; birds are a theatre; mountains are a myth; rain is a poem! Nature is literature!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#46. The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

John The Apostle

#47. During the Japanese invasion, bombs had fallen from the sky and people could run for cover. Now, they exploded in the middle of the road, or in the fields while people were playing soccer.

Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

#48. I read somewhere," said Kate, "that people are made of stardust."
He dragged his eyes from the sky. "Really?"
"Maybe that's what you're made of. Just like us."
And despite everything, August smiled.

Victoria Schwab

#49. People who look like human beings are not human beings. Strange people are amongst us. We must be careful. Our lives are changing. Our gods are silent. Our ancestors are silent. A great something is going to come from the sky and change the face of the earth.

Ben Okri

#50. Where do starfish come from?" asked Sam.
"From the sky," answered Stella. "Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the sea."
"Weren't the stars afraid of drowning?" asked Sam.
"No," said Stella. "They all learned how to swim.

Marie-Louise Gay

#51. Beware of the deadly donky,
falling from the sky'
you can choose the way you live,
my friend,
but not the way you die.

Edward Monkton

#52. The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky ... I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

Michael J. Fox

#53. Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

#54. My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.

Edmond Rostand

#55. Before Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had dream of soldiers falling from the sky.

John Trudell

#56. Falling from the sky like the rain,
And I fly and sing like the little birds...,
Movements that are not in vain,
Everything has a life made of words.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#57. Rain drips from the sky
I hope it rains forever
If that's what it takes to wash you away from me
And when I'm clean
I'll finally be free.

Jasmine Sandozz

#58. Could've come like a mighty storm. With all the strength of a hurricane. You could've come like a forest fire with the power of Heaven in Your flame. But You came like a winter snow, quiet and soft and slow. Falling from the sky in the night to the earth below.

Chris Tomlin

#59. Either way, we had him to thank for a world without flowers, where plants grew brown rather than green, and where people could survive in an environment where ash fell from the sky on a regular basis.

Brandon Sanderson

#60. A dead man fell from the sky, landing at my feet with a thud.

Gary Corby

#61. It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep ... a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis.

Lisa Kleypas

#62. The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.

Max Lerner

#63. Ain't it God's sword, fell from the sky? I thought it had to be passed on. Is it cursed?"
Craw took up the reins and turned back to the north. "Every sword's a curse, boy.

Joe Abercrombie

#64. From the sky, everything looked fake. The buildings were doll houses. The cars were Matchbox racers. People scuttled about, but they weren't really people anymore. Their little lives meant absolutely nothing from this altitude.

P.S. Baber

#65. Democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

Vandana Shiva

#66. If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours I think even they would commit many wrongs.

Sui Ishida

#67. You're the prettiest thing I've seen fall from the sky today.

Shaun Hick

#68. Very near Auch, Lectoure, and Mirande, great fire will fall from the sky for three nights. A most stupendous and astonishing event will occur. Very soon afterwards, the earth will tremble.

Nostradamus

#69. An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."

Christopher Columbus

#70. If an astronomer calculates from the sky
he will ascertain the paths of the moon and the stars;
but in his house the womenfolk are at variance,
and he does not perceive their various misconduct.

Nagarjuna

#71. He had long been curious at leaders intermittent calls for a return to past values and had tested the notion by trying to build a house from the sky downwards

Steve Aylett

#72. Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#73. Bombs The first bomb dropped unheard, unlike the loudly dropped second and third; then the final bomb dropped from the sky to the ground and the last-seen bomb made the last-heard sound.

Bo Burnham

#74. Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts ... they lie unquestioned, uncombined
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
Is daily spun, but there exists no loom
To weave it into fabric.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#75. Devils don't come from hell beneath us, they come from the sky.

Jesse Eisenberg

#76. Each of us had all the troubles we could carry. They rained down on us from the sky, and we raced around in a frenzy to pick them up and stuff them in our pockets. Why we did that stumps me, even now. Maybe we thought they were something else.

Haruki Murakami

#77. So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?

Thom Yorke

#78. Coraline went over to the window and watched the rain come down. It wasn't the kind of rain you could go out in - it was the other kind, the kind that threw itself down from the sky and splashed where it landed.

Neil Gaiman

#79. September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.

Nadine Gordimer

#80. A crack of lightning beamed from the sky, leaving a hole in the ground. Smoke elevated from it. Within seconds, I was covered in rain, drenched, unsteady, and cold, I half stumbled, half crawled back towards my car.

Elle Klass

#81. So too is love a sigh from the sea of emotions, a tear from the sky of love, and a smile from the field of the soul.

Kahlil Gibran

#82. The pink sun tumbled from the sky like a shooting star, turning day to night in the space of a trembling breath. What rose in its place was a moon made of rotting meat, its vast surface pitted with crawling black mold, glowing in a starless sky.

Craig Schaefer

#83. No bird in a cage has ever come to know what the mountain winds feel like, by staring at the free flying birds, wishing that they would fall from the sky!

C. JoyBell C.

#84. Then he spoke. "For us, it will be real and right now, I need to know you understand that." "Understand?" "That it's real." "That what's real?" "That we will be together until the sun falls from the sky.

Kristen Ashley

#85. A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

Susan Orlean

#86. SOWING LIGHTNING
Seize
Bolts of lightning from the sky
And plant them in fields of life.
They will grow like tender sprouts of fire.
Charge somber thoughts
With unexpected flash,
You, my lightning in the soil!

Visar Zhiti

#87. For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.

Dave Eggers

#88. The weather service reported that there weren't any atmospheric conditions present that might have led to fish raining from the sky.

Haruki Murakami

#89. She looked as the fireworks exploded in a shower of sparks - sparks that painted the clouds overhead as they fell, one by one, in streaking lines of golden fire, like angels falling from the sky.

Cassandra Clare

#90. I popped out of a bamboo, fallen from the sky.
Leave no leaf ripped, don't you ruin the nature.
It makes me bitter, remembering inhuman past.

Toba Beta

#91. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

Virginia Woolf

#92. The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.

Aleksis Kivi

#93. Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what they're doing. And they're all clueless. It's astonishing that any bridges stay up, or that planes don't constantly plummet from the sky. It's heartening, in a strange way.

Peter York

#94. And you know, talk about something else is falling from the sky. And that is an asteroid. What's coming our way? Is this an effect of perhaps global warming or just some meteoric occasion?

Deborah Feyerick

#95. People who don't camp much think darkness falls from the sky. It doesn't. Darkness slides from the trees and fills them first, then spreads outward to the open places.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#96. Men should not be sexing their women in the missionary position because they are facing away from the sky. Instead of looking down, men are to look up. To the vastness of Father Sky

Matthew Fox

#97. When a guy fell from the sky, you can hope that he's a fallen angel or something equally sexy as that. But when you're in an underground train station and being chased by hidious vampires and some strange guy just randomly fell to your body, that is not sexy at all.

Rea Lidde

#98. I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

Ursula Andress

#99. Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.

Denis Diderot

#100. Good." Matty took a deep breath. "See the North Star?" Rob squeezed his hand. "No." "Well, it's up there. And you told me once to always remember." Rob swallowed hard and took hold of Matty's chin, bringing his gaze from the sky to meet Rob's own. "I remember, Matty." "Well, good. Don't forget.

Leta Blake