Heavens

Famous quotes containing the word heavens:

    “Needles in a heavenly haystack. There are more stars in the heavens than there are human beings on earth.”
    —Sydney Boehm (1908–1990)

    “DORIS: Here’s the two of spades.
    DUSTY: The two of spades!
    THAT’S THE COFFIN!!
    DORIS: THAT’S THE COFFIN?
    Oh good heavens what’ll I do?
    Just before a party too!”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “When the ice is covered with snow, I do not suspect the wealth under my feet; that there is as good as a mine under me wherever I go. How many pickerel are poised on easy fin fathoms below the loaded wain! The revolution of the seasons must be a curious phenomenon to them. At length the sun and wind brush aside their curtain, and they see the heavens again.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)