Anne Rivers Siddons Quotes

And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.

As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.

The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

I live out here in Malibu, where I can see the stars. So I want to get a really nice telescope so I can look at the stars a little bit more.

One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.

For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.

I can't imagine anything more beautiful on this planet than looking up at the stars and seeing a kind of artificial star moving through the night sky.

I've been a stargazer for quite a long time, I've got the apps, I know where a lot of things are in the sky and the apps actually can help just to point out what you are looking at because then you do get to see, 'Oh that's Saturn, that's Mars.'

...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it until it shone above the dark gum tree. I used to whisper 'There you are, my darling.' And just in that first moment it seemed to be shining for me alone. It seemed to understand this ... something which is like longing, and yet it is not longing. Or regret - it is more like regret.

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.

Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.

During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.

I like to consider myself a star - a star, that when you look in the sky, it's always there. And on a clear night... a shooting star comes by, and get a little thrill, and you make a little wish. You need both types of stars, the shooting and the constant stars. The heavens include them all.

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

When I was a boy, the only thing which captivated me as much as music was the night sky.