Luminary Quotes

#1. The whole east was flecked With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst, While a light crimson mist Went up before the mounting luminary, And all the strips of cloud began to vary Their hues, and all the zenith seemed to ope As if to show a cope beyond the cope!

Epes Sargent

#2. As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles; and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.

Nicolaus Copernicus

#5. LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which hath no heat or influence; it doth not warm the affections, or purify the conscience. Judas was a great luminary, he knew God's will, but he was a traitor.

Thomas Watson

#7. It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act ...

Balfour Stewart

#8. I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of friends, Alan Turing was always this luminary figure we'd all look up to.

Graham Moore

#9. The luminary was a golden-haired, beaming, mild-eyed, God-like creature, gazing down in the vigour and intentness of youth upon an earth that was brimming with interest for him.

Thomas Hardy

#10. One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

Robert Frost

#11. Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

Mary Baker Eddy

#12. A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

Barack Obama

#13. He opened his eyes to half-cast. With a low rumble he lifted her onto his hips. "Take me to heaven, lassie. For no one but ye can cool the fire thrumming in my blood.

Amy Jarecki

#14. Horrible to think that inside a human being there could be a human being. A separate brain thinking its separate thoughts.

Lauren Groff

#15. You can fulfill your whole life in one hour of inner seeing.

John De Ruiter

#16. For history is made with tools, not with ideas; and everything is changed by economic conditions - art, philosophy, love, virtue - truth itself!

Joseph Conrad