Planets Quotes

• In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Way
  • Honest
  • Photograph

• I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Creatures
  • Felt
  • Planets

• The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

  

  Sheherazade Goldsmith
  • Energy
  • Environmental
  • Consumption

• Feith had achieved the reputation in some military circles as 'the dumbest . . . guy on the planet.'

  

  Tommy Franks
  • Guy
  • Military
  • Reputation

• Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Space
  • Slave
  • Remains

• What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

  

  Morris Dees
  • Special
  • Faces
  • Humankind

• I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet.

  

  Erik Naggum
  • People
  • Programmers
  • Biased

• Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.

  

  Wes Jackson
  • Trying
  • Term
  • Acknowledge

• There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

  

  Thomas More
  • Different
  • Sun
  • Moon

• We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

  

  Stuart Rose
  • Poor
  • Faces
  • Dilemma

• The world doesn't belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet--it doesn't belong to us. We got confused about that, now it's time to set the record straight

  

  Daniel Quinn
  • World
  • Community
  • Confused

• Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Gods
  • Error
  • Separate

• You have to see my show to believe that Im the only unique Nina Hagen on this planet.

  

  Nina Hagen
  • Believe
  • Unique
  • Shows

• History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Darkness
  • Lasts

• We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the solar system and then, the distances are, of course, immense, then there could be Earth-like planets with more advanced form of life.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Earth
  • Distance
  • Form

• If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Planets
  • Empty Space
  • Suns

• Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Process
  • Existence
  • Clock

• I think we need to feel, to come together, to look at our differences as a benefit to who we are as people on the same planet.

  

  Milo Ventimiglia
  • People
  • Together
  • Differences

• Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.

  

  William H. Schlesinger
  • Humans
  • Depends
  • Species

• Im an ardent Trekkie and I look forward to the United Federation of Planets.

  

  Mike Oldfield
  • Planets
  • United
  • Federation

• The experience you have making the movie is all you have; when the movie's finished, that's for other people. But while you're doing it, that's your time on the planet, so you want it to be good.

  

  Cary Elwes
  • Good
  • Want
  • Finished

• We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.

  

  Gerard K. O'Neill
  • Moon
  • Numbers
  • Appeals

• My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.

  

  Mike Greenberg
  • Persons
  • Favorite
  • Would

• Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Created
  • Planets
  • Hamlet

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