Quotes with pie-in-the-sky

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  • Sir John Lubbock Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Gloria Steinem Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Les Brown Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • William Wordsworth Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Chief Seattle How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Marianne Williamson I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • John Masefield I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Grandma Moses I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.
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  • Anton Chekhov I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Al Neuharth I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
    Al Neuharth
    American businessman, author, and columnist
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  • Bill Paxton I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bhagavad Gita If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Carl Sagan If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Camille Paglia In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bill Dedman In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Buddha In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Adrian Cronauer It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Antony Hewish Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.
    Antony Hewish
    British radio astronomer (1924 - )
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