Quotes About Cassiopeia

#1. The Big Dipper. Cassiopeia.

Lenore Look

#2. Cassiopeia? She was a queen long ago, in a different part of the world. The stories say she was very beautiful, but very proud. Too proud. She smack-talked some goddesses and got herself stuck up there for all eternity.

Ryan Graudin

#3. Not Cassie for Cassandra. Or Cassie for Cassidy. Cassie for Cassiopeia, the constellation, the queen tied to her chair in the northern sky, who was beautiful but vain, placed in the heavens by the sea god Poseidon as a punishment for her boasting. In Greek, her name means she whose words excel.

Rick Yancey

#4. Entrusting her memory to the wind, to the embrace of the silent sentinel trees and to the care of the faithful stars, her namesake, pure and everlasting, the uncontained universe contained in her: Cassiopeia.

Rick Yancey

#5. the story of a queen named Cassiopeia who lived forever on a throne in the sky.

Rick Yancey

#6. We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars,
watching Cassiopeia mount her throne
and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South.
I would say, "I have a secret to tell you."
And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly,
you would answer: "Whisper it into my mouth.

Diane Ackerman

#7. When she was little, she'd liked to pretend that stars were really lights anchoring distant islands, as if she wasn't looking up but only out across a dark sea. She knew the truth now but still found stars comforting, especially in their sameness. A sky full of burning replicas.

Lauren Oliver

#8. There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

Felix Frankfurter

#9. To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.

Douglas Conant

#10. It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

Robin Wright

#11. This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

Dean Koontz

#12. We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.

Christine Pelosi

#13. I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part, a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules of romantic fiction, and complicated simple solutions with his absurd adolescent, book-born nonsense.

Robertson Davies

#14. The world existed for a very long time before this particular set of seven billion billion atoms came along and it will go right on after they're scattered up, down and sideways.

Rick Yancey

#15. Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.

John Mellencamp