For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And other its faith, and trimmed its fire, Showed me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems: Second Series,'Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse', l.67^70.

Headstones stagger under great draughts of time after heads pass out, and their world must reel speechless, blind in the end about its chilling star

-Berryman,John originally John Allyn Smith
  'Homage to Mistress Bradstreet', stanza 55.

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying,Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 2:1^2.

I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 9:1.

La de¤  couverte d'un mets nouveau fait plus pour le bonheur du genre humain que la de¤  couverte d'une e¤  toile. The discoveryof a newdish doesmore for thehappiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.

-Brillat-Savarin,Jean Anthelme
  Physiologie du gou"  t, aphorism 9 (translated by Anne Drayton,1970).

Liberty lendsus her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

-Bronte«  , Charlotte
  Villette, ch.6.

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'Popularity'.

Or would you like to swing on a star Carry moonbeams home in a jar And be better off than you are Or would you rather be a fish?

-Burke,Johnny
  Swinging on a Star, sung by Bing Crosby in the film Going My  Way. Music by  Jimmy Van Heusen.

When o'er the hill the eastern star Tells bughtin-time is near, my jo, And owsen frae the furrowed field Return sae dowf and weary O.

-Burns, Robert
  'My ain kind dearie', or 'The Lea-rig', stanza1.

   The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or curb a runaway young star or two.

-Rochdale
  The Vision of  Judgement, stanza 2.

Light wrestling there incessantly with light, Star kissing star through wave on wave unto Your body rocking!

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  White Buildings,'Voyages', pt.3.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

-Cullen, Countee
  On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

Whatever your script is like, no matter how much stewing and rewritingöif the punters don't want to sleep with the star, you may never be asked to write another one.

-Curtis, Richard WhalleyAnthony
  Introduction to the published script of Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

-Davis, Sammy,Jnr
  Yes I Can, pt.3, ch.23.

'It is,'says Chadband,'the ray of rays, the sun of suns, the moonof moons,thestarofstars.It isthelightof Terewth.'

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^3  Bleak House, ch.25.

Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot.

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'Song: Go and catch a falling star', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man's hand Under the twinkle of a fading star.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'The Hollow Men'.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Society and Solitude,'Civilization'.

Had every Christian in Hitler's Europe followed the example of the king of Denmark and decided to put on the yellow star, there would be today neither despair in the church nor talk of the death of God.

-Fackenheim, Emil L
  Quest for Past and Future.

You Are My Lucky Star.

-Freed, Arthur pseudonym of  Arthur Grossman
   Title of song featured in Broadway Melody of1936 (music by Nacio Herb Brown).