Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. Isaac Asimov
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt, attributions & variations
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle. Marilyn Monroe
It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. Arthur Eddington, Astrophysicist
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. H G Wells
And when the rising sun has first breathed on us with his panting horses, over there the red evening-star is lighting his late lamps. Virgil, Georgics
The sun is a star. By and large it’s fairly typical of its class of stars. And it’s probably five billion years old. Harold Zirin, Big Bear Solar Observatory
Super-flares are up to ten million times more energetic than the most powerful solar flares. They can last for up to a week and cause stars to shine one thousand times more brightly than normal. Death of the Sun, 2006
You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it’s like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos. Tom Hanks
Your chilly stars I can forego,
This warm kind world is all I know. William Corey, Mimnermus in Church 1858
They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. Judges 5:20
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. Psalms 147:4
One star differeth from another star in glory. I Corinthians 15:41
And I saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and
I counted the portals out of which they proceed, and wrote down all their outlets, of each individual star by itself, according to their number and their names, their courses and their positions, and their
times and their months, as Uriel the holy angel who was with me showed me. He showed all things to me and wrote them down for me: also their names he wrote for me, and their laws and their companies. Enoch 1:33:2-4
And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw how He called them all by their names and they hearkened unto Him. And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their proportions of light: (I saw) the width of their spaces and the day of their appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning: and (I saw) their revolution according to the number of the angels, and (how) they keep faith with each other. Enoch 2:43:1-3
Captain, the stars are ... gone. Star Trek s2e18: The Immunity Syndrome s2e18, Chekov
This is what is says: In the second year ... a broom-star appeared ... It was visible for more than seventy days. Dr Richard Stephenson, Gulbenkian Library, Durham, reading Chinese Emperor’s Star Records
My theory is that the Star of Bethlehem was Jupiter. And the event that Jupiter was in at the time was a coming together with Saturn [and] another planet in the constellation of Pisces. David Hughes
A supernova is the most violent death of a star you can imagine. Michelle Thaller
The pattern of dark lines reveals exactly what chemical elements are present in the star. Helen Czerski, Colour: The Spectrum of Science I: Colours of Earth, BBC 2015
Stars behave completely differently depending on their size. Hannah Fry, Size Matters II: That Sinking Feeling, BBC 2018
Thousands of pin-pricks of light twinkle back at me from the darkness, each one a vast ball of gas burning in space. Secrets of the Universe with Tim Peake s1e2: Stars & Black Holes, Channel 5 2023