Orbiting Earth Quotes

#1. I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.

David Mackay

#2. The Fourth was perfect. She'd make a ceremony, an event, of this. She had a bad habit of never giving ceremony its due. But sometimes life demanded ceremony. Sometimes you owed that to yourself.

Ellen Airgood

#3. Didn't know what to say but I did know what to think and that was that Jake Spear was ... the ... bomb.

Kristen Ashley

#4. Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet volcanic cone;
peace to our children when they fall
in small war on the heel of small
war
until the end of time
to police the earth, a ghost
orbiting forever lost
in our monotonous sublime

Robert Lowell

#5. Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.

Michio Kaku

#6. Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth.

Ernest Hollings

#7. The Europans were building an armada, just like the Sobrukai. But much closer to Earth. They had Foundry Ships orbiting their moon, cranking out fighters and drones - just like those I'd spotted above Sobrukai last night.

Ernest Cline

#8. Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

Jerry Spinelli

#9. Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.'s not out there, then Earth is more than merely special - it's some sort of miracle.

Seth Shostak

#10. Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.

Ursula Goodenough

#11. One of the reasons we're here, that we exist at all, is that Earth, cosmically speaking, is in a relatively peaceful place: orbiting our Sun in a near perfect circle.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

Seneca The Younger

#13. However romantically ill John might look, it seemed that he had nothing worse than an unromantic cold.

Barbara Pym

#14. When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

Timothy Ferriss

#15. As we gather here today," Clinton said, "the fiftieth woman to leave this Earth is orbiting overhead. If we can blast fifty women into space, we will someday launch a woman into the White House.

Rebecca Traister

#16. My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.

Colman Domingo

#17. We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life.

Donella Meadows

#18. Nothing is quite as beautiful as seeing someone do exactly what they were designed to do, to watch someone who has found that thing, that passion, that singular calling and expresses it with conviction.

Lori Stanley Roeleveld