Top 100 Quotes About Round World
#1. Here I saw a city rise and say to the peoples round world: Listen, I am strong, I know what I want.
Carl Sandburg
#2. A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last.
Oswald Chambers
#3. You can't choose up sides on a round world.
Wayne Dyer
#4. In this round world of many circles within circles, do we make a weary journey from the high grade to the low, to find at last that they lie close together, that the two extremes touch, and that our journey's end is but our starting-place?
Charles Dickens
#5. The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens.
William Shakespeare
#6. If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.
Lucretius
#7. In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
H.G.Wells
#8. Some certain significance lurk in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky Way.
Herman Melville
#9. O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. I hate patriotism ... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.
Bill Hicks
#11. The voice of the waves was now mixed with strange sounds; laughter, running feet and the clanging of great bells far out to sea. Snufkin lay still and listened. dreaming and remembering his trip round world. Soon I must set out again, he thought. But not yet.
Tove Jansson
#12. I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If I can't protect my family, I'm coming to where you are; I'm just coming. It's a round world, and we've all got to get on with it and move on.
Paul Bettany
#13. This woman's size protected her
from the hurts of the world
but it also imprisoned her soul.
As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face.
David W. Earle
#14. May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
E. E. Cummings
#15. I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
Thomas Beecham
#16. Be yourself, that's what makes the world go round!
Katy Perry
#17. It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
Joseph Stiglitz
#18. I like the phrase "shot heard 'round the world," and I don't think there's any doubt the Oklahoma City blast was heard around the world.
Timothy McVeigh
#19. Nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them
the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs ... if an Egg were to be taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end ...
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#20. If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.
Oliver Heaviside
#21. It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea. ("The Troll")
T.H. White
#22. There is only one good thing science ever discovered - a good thing, good tidings of great joy - that the world is round.
G.K. Chesterton
#23. The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,
words with little meaning, actions with little worth,
one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
Thomas Carlyle
#25. Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.
Peter Tork
#26. Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.
Jack Charlton
#27. It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle.
For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.
Christopher Paolini
#28. Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.
Jodi Picoult
#29. Round the World! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that we left behind secure, were all the time before us.
Herman Melville
#31. For weeks I read round the clock. I entered the warp of the world of the imagination. Chapter numbers became the enumerations by which I measured hours.
Sam Wazan
#32. If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston Churchill
#33. It's love that makes the world go round - otherwise it would be flat.
Jay Woodman
#34. Look, it's not love that makes the world go round, it's inertia,
Gregory Benford
#35. I've been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me,
Chris Marker
#36. Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
Sean Connery
#37. The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#38. They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round.
Ira Gershwin
#39. Love makes the world go round, the hit songs collectively tell us, and the world is full of people you don't know and might as well be nice to because they won't leave.
Daniel Handler
#41. Love! Who ever said that love
made the world go round? Love was a killing pain, an addiction that had to be fed; yet even in her pain she
knew that she wouldn't have it any other way.
Linda Howard
#42. She says the lesson to learn is that the world is round, which means that if I run too fast I might end up chasing the very homeland I am running from.
Sefi Atta
#43. Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round".
T.F. Hodge
#44. To make a railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent to grading the whole surface of the planet.
Henry David Thoreau
#45. Why is the world round?
Why do the suckas bite?
Why do the freaks come out at night?
Why they paint Jesus white?
I sit and wonder why we breakin hip-hop laws,
Doing videos in houses that we know ain't yours.
Lee Majors
#46. It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.
Samantha Fox
#47. And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in my press, turning into its opposite at the command of the red and green buttons, and that's what makes the world go round.
Bohumil Hrabal
#48. There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.
Alan Watts
#49. The whole point is, we can forget. It's important that we forget some things. Otherwise we'd go round the world carrying a hotload of stuff we just don't need.
Ali Smith
#50. People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for God in the world today. Everywhere there is much suffering, but there is also great hunger for God and love for each other.
Mother Teresa
#51. Dear Artie: "The young fellow has disappeared into a dead end. I think the long-necked bastard planned to wind up in Paris and sent him there but he may also have used the underground railroad. Ask your round-heeled contact. Maybe you can find more than I could. "Roy
John Pearce
#52. Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#53. Jimmy Demaret and I had the best sports psychologist in the world. His name was Jack Daniels and he was waiting for us after every round.
Jack Burke Jr.
#54. Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
Dean Rusk
#55. I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.
Giannina Braschi
#56. I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
Kate Adie
#57. When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.
Jesse Jackson
#58. What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty ... You're the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.
Michele Bachmann
#59. There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
Ernest Holmes
#60. Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.
Sophie Hannah
#61. Men like to pleasure us, girl. They like to undo our plaits and give us water to drink from their own mouths. That's what makes the world go round.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#62. The world was round, that was the deadly truth of it.
Stephen King
#63. Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice-T
#64. He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.
Craig Ferguson
#66. The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Matthew Arnold
#67. The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.
William Hague
#68. And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.
Winston S. Churchill
#70. Crazies always recognize each other. I think Melville said it, in a slightly different context: "Genius all over the world stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round." Of course, we're not talking about genius here, we're talking about crazies - but
Alex Haley
#71. - Is that for me? said he.
- Yes, it's for you.
He took it carefully in his hands, and stroked it.
- Do you think it's nice?
- Nice - why I could go round the world in such.
Knut Hamsun
#72. Misconceptions are unavoidable now that we've eaten of the Tree of Knowledge. But Paradise is locked and bolted, and the cherubim stands behind us. We have to go on and make the journey round the world to see if it is perhaps open somewhere at the back.
Heinrich Von Kleist
#73. -a superb moon, round as a pumpkin and golden as honey, filling the rooftop world with light, and deep, mysterious shadow.
Barbara Sleigh
#74. This old world keeps spinnin' round; It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down.
Neil Young
#75. I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#76. I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
Edgar Guest
#77. Passion is what makes the world go round. Passion is what drives us to be better than we are. Passion is what makes our emotions - whether love or hate or laughter - ignite and blaze into life.
Lisa Mangum
#78. As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.
Anthony Burgess
#79. If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.
Barack Obama
#80. You can kill a man but not a song when it's sung the whole world 'round.
Holly Near
#81. It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed; but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home
Woody Guthrie
#82. It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round.
Tony Alessandra
#83. For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.
Thomas Huxley
#84. Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#85. Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in the world, and feeling glad that everything in it was right for her - for her body, her heart, and her freedom.
Andrei Platonov
#86. Look round the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
John Dryden
#87. If someone tells you,that you are their world:
Take it as an insult ...
This means that you are round and fat,
Full of wind and air,
and you always let people walk all over you
Michelle Geaney
#88. It was the year Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe, with the countries neat and different-colored. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose
and turning a thousand miles an hour.
Carson McCullers
#89. Throughout the 64-day campaign, events and activities for peace and nonviolence take place all around the world, highlighting existing peacebuilding initiatives and inspiring new year-round activities for a more peaceful, nonviolent, just and sustainable world.
Robert Alan Aurthur
#90. It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?
The world's a lot bigger than I am.
Liz Kessler
#91. Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.
Robert Plant
#93. The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.
Ted Dekker
#94. Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast,
World, you are beautifully drest!
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#96. I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.
Emmet Gowin
#97. Don't knock gossip." I pinched his hand. "It makes the world go round.
Andrea Cremer
#98. It'd be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.
Terry Pratchett
#99. The world was old and ended: but you and I were gay;
Round us in antic order their crippled vices came
Lust that had lost its laughter, fear that had lost its shame.
G.K. Chesterton
#100. If you want the truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it.
Charles Spurgeon
