#clouds

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#clouds #come #entire #forgetfulness #forgetting

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cheerfulness #clouds #daylight #fills #flash

Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at all, life was all there was. And death. ↗

— Tim Winton

#tim-winton #death

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ↗

— John Lubbock

#across #clouds #day #float #grass

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#art #baseness #beauty #best #best part

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#god #shroud #symbolize #veils

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work. ↗

— Frank Borman

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God is a cloud from which rain fell. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#clouds #dejan-stojanovic #god #literature #literature-quotes

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. ↗

— Hugo Gernsback

#clouds #description #detective #methods #modern

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region. ↗

— Antony Hewish

#also #clouds #estimate #height #i