Planets Quotes - Page 5

• Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

  George Wald

  Life, Science, Years

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• I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet

  Edward James Olmos

  People, Support, Indigenous

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• If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Mean, Firsts, Ancestry

  "Speaking of Science Fiction". Book by Paul Walker, 1978.

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• We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Order, Decay, Faces

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• If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Issues, World, Laptops

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• For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

  David R. Brower

  Responsibility, Thinking, Hands

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• But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

  James Young

  Music, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Life, God, Science

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• It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Men, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

  John Fowles

  Stupid, Silly, Intelligent

  "Daily Telegraph", August 15, 1991.

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• To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Law, Aggravation

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.305

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• My biggest dream is that my words will inspire heart, hope and personal responsibility in people around the globe long after my feet in these shoes aren't walking the planet.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Dream, Moving, Heart

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• When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

  Keith Jarrett

  Two, Band, Separation

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• As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Independent, Space, Atmosphere

  "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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• I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

  Quentin Crisp

  God, Order, Giving

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• It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.

  Stan Dale

  Scared, Changed, I Realized

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• We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

  Maurice Strong

  Generations, Earth, Stewardship

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• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet.

  Barack Obama

  Teamwork, Together, Action

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• I am from the planet of elegance.

  Ron Carter

  Elegance

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• If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

  Theodore White

  Money, Business, Ifs

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• That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

  Percival Lowell

  Nature, Space, Mars

  "Fantastically Wrong: One Astronomer’s Quest to Expose the Alien-Built Canals of Mars" by Matt Simon, www.wired.com. May 21, 2014.

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• I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Space, Mars

  "Cosmic Currency: PayPal and SETI Developing Space Cash System". www.space.com. June 27, 2013.

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• If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.

  Drew Barrymore

  Alive, Marrow, Ifs

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• It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  God, Atheist, Fear

  "Sir Arthur’s Quotations", www.clarkefoundation.org.

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• For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.

  Jermaine Jackson

  Wisdom, Islamic, Humanity

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