Sayings About The Equator

#1. The 3.5 billion unreached people on earth would form a single file line that would stretch around the equator 25 times! Can you picture 25 lines of Christless people, trampling endlessly toward hell? Let that vision stay with you day and night.

Larry Stockstill

#2. Seeing the sky darken & the fields
turn brown & the lake lead-grey
as some enormous scrap of sheet metal
& wind grabs the world around the equator
I am most thankful then for knowing about
the little gold hairs on your belly

Al Purdy

#3. I've lived on the equator all my life and we never had to change clocks. Now they're telling me time goes forward an hour after midnight? What is this, Narnia?

Joyce Rachelle

#4. Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.

Ellsworth Huntington

#5. I've never
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life.

Rita Dove

#6. Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark.

Tim Butcher

#7. India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

Winston Churchill

#8. I haven't been everywhere, but I've been to enough "wheres" to know that Earth has pockets of stupid popping up north, south, east, and west. From the equator to the prime meridian - dumb does not so easily wash off.

Corey Taylor

#9. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole.

Herman Melville

#10. On the equator, where centrifugal forces are greatest, a 150-pound person will be a slender 149 pounds 14 ounces.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#11. I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt of the planet. If all our energy grids were synchronized, the light side of the planet could provide energy for the dark side, according to the movement of the sun.

Antony Gormley

#12. We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,
a narrow belt.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. One degree of longitude equals four minutes of time the world over, but in terms of distance, one degree shrinks from sixty-eight miles at the Equator to virtually nothing at the poles.

Dava Sobel

#14. You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

Vincent Van Gogh

#15. Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.

Alastair Reynolds

#16. I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#17. By 1445 they had reached the mouth of the Senegal River; in 1458 they discovered and colonized the Cape Verde Islands; by 1462 they had reached Sierra Leone; and in 1473 the Portuguese mariner Lopo Goncalves crossed the equator.

Clark B. Hinckley

#18. He licked me like a double scoop of French vanilla on a hot summer day. At the equator. He savored me like I could melt in his mouth but he didn't want me to.

Melanie Harlow

#19. The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass some honest-to-goodness catastrophe. For example, 700 million years ago, Earth underwent a planet-wide deep freeze, with ice covering the oceans from the poles to the equator.

Seth Shostak

#20. The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

Mark Twain

#21. Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

Elbert Hubbard

#22. She'd just gone ice princess on him. As an ice dragon himself, he knew something about frigid.
Mei made frigid look like a balmy day on the equator.

Susannah Scott

#23. The North Pole, but to someone looking from the equator, it appears to lie just at the horizon. From the difference in the apparent position of the North Star in Egypt and Greece, Aristotle even quoted an estimate that the distance

Stephen Hawking

#24. For only while telling the truth does the truth lighten us. When we stop, it turns massive. I left some of my bags on that corner of Green Street somewhere below the equator. Now I carry less and try to dance on my crutches. For only while loving do the pains of feeling lighten.

Mark Nepo

#25. This general flattening of objects that rotate is why Earth's pole-to-pole diameter is smaller than its diameter at the equator. Not by much: three-tenths of one percent - about twenty-six miles.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#26. If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.

Odell Shepard

#27. There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

Henry Ward Beecher

#28. With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

C.S. Lewis

#29. Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

Nicolas Chamfort

#30. The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it ... 'Beware of me,' it says, 'but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. I come to you and you see me whole,' he says. 'You love me all the way around the equator and not just for some story I wrote. When the door closes and the world's outside, we're eye to eye.

Stephen King

#32. I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.

Christopher Columbus

#33. Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.

Jerome Lawrence

#34. There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights.

Mark Twain

#35. He was a spry, suave and very precise general who knew the circumference of the equator and always wrote "enhanced" when he meant "increased." He was a prick.

Joseph Heller

#36. You think we stand a chance? (Delphine)
Like an icicle on the equator. (Phobos)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#37. It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Mark Twain