Top 56 Orbiting Quotes
#1. All ponzi schemes are upheld by a centripetal force caused by those orbiting the circles of power, celebrity and wealth and trying to get in. When the ponzi scheme reaches its point of maximum growth, the force disperses and the ponzi scheme collapses.
Heather Marsh
#2. Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed
Eddie Vedder
#3. Time is standing still like the sun. We are the ones moving around time like planets orbiting the sun.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Nineteen years, three months, and one week before I found Seivarden in the snow, I was a troop carrier orbiting the planet Shis'urna.
Ann Leckie
#5. AUGUST IS THE Sun. Me and Mom and Dad are planets orbiting the Sun. The rest of our family and friends are asteroids and comets floating around the planets orbiting the Sun.
R.J. Palacio
#6. I am a planet orbiting my sun," He whispered, forcing me to step closer to hear him. "I am only Mathias.
Shari Richardson
#7. Orbiting a planet, or any significant source of gravity, was a lot like constantly throwing yourself at the ground and figuring out how to miss.
Evan Currie
#8. Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.
Brian Cox
#9. I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.
Robert Crippen
#10. There's a large cluster of stars that are orbiting the center of our galaxy. And by measuring the motion of stars, and in particular, their orbits, we can figure out whether or not there's a central black hole.
Andrea M. Ghez
#11. He looked at me like I meant so much to him, like I was the fucking sun and he was a planet orbiting it.
R.J. Lewis
#12. Each element has a characteristic atomic spectrum, due to the absorption and emission of light associated with the unique energy levels of its orbiting electrons.
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
#13. 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
#14. Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.
Anne Lamott
#15. The moon is the better storyteller for this event. Our ancient craters are smoothed over by erosion and tectonic motion. With no erosion, no wind, and no liquid water on the moon, craters can remain perfectly visible for billions of years, an orbiting catalog of impacts.
Craig Childs
#16. We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.
Bill Nye
#17. They would continue to live in New Tiamaat, orbiting Crucible.
Alastair Reynolds
#18. The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy.
Stephen Hawking
#19. Ansel, I'm not the sun, stop orbiting and get in here.
Andrea Cremer
#20. We live on a cosmic speck of dust, orbiting a mediocre star in the far suburbs of a common sort of galaxy, among a hundred billion galaxies in the universe.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#21. When you say, "I'll serve, as long as I'm getting benefits from it," that's not actually serving people; it's serving yourself through them. That's not circling them, orbiting around them; it's using them, getting them to orbit around you.
Timothy J. Keller
#22. We were both satellites orbiting Denny's sun, struggling for gravitational supremacy. Of course, she had the advantage of her tongue and her thumbs, and when I watched her kiss and fondle him sometimes she would glance at me and wink as if to gloat: Look at my thumbs! See what they can do!
Garth Stein
#23. I'll bet when aliens see the ring of garbage orbiting our planet they just keep going in the search for intelligent life
Johnny Moscato
#24. We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.
Robert Breault
#25. 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
#26. The ISS would not be the incredibly capable orbiting research facility it is today without either Russians or Americans, just as it couldn't have been built without the Canadian arm used in its construction.
Ron Garan
#27. Modern broadcast television, with its digital boxes and fiber optics and orbiting geosynchronous satellites, has become a perfectly engineered slaughterhouse of time.
Daniel R. Thorne
#28. I'm just a guy on a planet, orbiting a sun, surrounded by a vast space extending in every direction.
Paul Uyttebrouck
#29. It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space.
Clifford D. Simak
#31. Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue.
Marc Garneau
#32. There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.
Wernher Von Braun
#34. Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues to stick together, clumping into rocky asteroids, which eventually become orbiting rocky planets. And voila: a solar system!
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#35. 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
#36. Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
Ellen Hopkins
#37. The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars ... and then on the surface.
Buzz Aldrin
#38. We will find another way," she repeated. "We're like orbiting pearls. No matter what pulls us apart, we'll always find our way back to each other.
Susan Waggoner
#39. In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing. And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#40. 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
#41. The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought a realization of the many problems that surrounded the use of rockets for space flight.
Donald A. Wollheim
#42. 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
#43. Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.
Jerry Spinelli
#44. 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
#45. In 1992 came the first confirmed observation of a planet orbiting a star other than our sun.
Stephen Hawking
#46. 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
#47. My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.
Elisabeth Egan
#48. Uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of
Douglas Adams
#49. Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth.
Ernest Hollings
#50. 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
#51. But if all this time between them had taught him anything, it was that they were orbiting the same fate. Together, always together, even when physically apart.
Debra Anastasia
#52. 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
#53. In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.
Stephen Hawking
#54. I'll tell you what it means, these orbiting sensors that can hear us in our beds. It means the end of loyalty. The more complex the systems, the less conviction in people. Conviction will be drained out of us. Devices will drain us, make us vague and pliant.
Don DeLillo
#55. NASA, a U.S. government agency that makes extensive use of Java. One notable example is SkyWatch, an applet that helps stargazers keep an eye out for orbiting satellites.
Rogers Cadenhead
#56. I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.
Shannon L. Alder
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