Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes

I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

Petrarch

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• Mountain
• Summit
• Corruptions

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• I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Earth
  • Moon
  • Mars

• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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  • Party

• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
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• No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Together
  • House

• You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Earth
  • You
  • Know

• I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Mountain

• I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Earth

• 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • True
  • Dream
  • Earth

• Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Live
  • Science
  • Earth

• Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Up
  • Men
  • Earth

• We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Best

• Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • God
  • Earth

• For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Song
  • Perfect
  • Mountain

• Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Great
  • Small
  • Mountain

• If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Earth
  • You
  • Moon

• Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • People
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  • Earth

• The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere.

  

  Caedmon
  • Long
  • Night
  • Heaven

• I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.'

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • You
  • Single
  • Day

• A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Production
  • Lot
  • Animation

• Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • People

• There are nights when you are lucky enough to tap into something about yourself that you are unaware of and can't possibly control, and somehow, at that moment, other people can view it or sense it or feel it.

  

  Heather Watts
  • Control
  • Feel
  • Moment

• I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

  

  Petrarch
  • Earth
  • Mountain
  • Summit