Planets Quotes
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Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.
William Faulkner -
We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.
Ann Druyan
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We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.
Michael Berryman -
Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up.
Heidi Hammel -
Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle -
We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.
Norman Myers -
The best thing you can do for the planet is be vegan or vegetarian.
William McNamara -
I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.
Etgar Keret
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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum...
George Bernard Shaw -
Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.
Galileo Galilei -
Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.
Shari Arison -
Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!
Albert Einstein -
To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.
Cecil Rhodes -
I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven planets, revolving round the sun, than the first among five moons revolving round Saturn.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Lakers are my boys! I'm 100 percent the biggest Kobe fan on the planet. I text him after every game to tell him what's up.
Ryan Sheckler -
The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.
Sun Ra -
The conversation of the gods! - I didn't resent or feel aggrieved because I couldn't understand it. I was the smallest of the planets, and if I carried messages between them and I couldn't always understand, that was in order too: they were something in a foreign language - star-talk.
Leslie Poles Hartley -
I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.
Tommy Lee Jones -
A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.
William Beebe
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Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.
Vincent Van Gogh -
One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe. The very forces that motivate the planets in their orbits and cause them to rotate will rotate his own machinery.
Nikola Tesla -
It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet
Miyamoto Musashi -
In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
Nicolaus Copernicus