Jodi Picoult Quotes

Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold flares, I had a little crumpled thought, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future.

I watched the night sky with it's countless stars and its moon, and I wondered about the universe and all that had been created, why the stars and the moon rose at night and the sun in the day, how vast it must be, how I could never understand the infinite measure of its size.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

There's no night without stars.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It makes you feel small.

Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars.

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

At night the sky is pure astronomy.

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

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

There's a bigger universe at hand.