Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Even though I now know that it's likely the Earth will suffer through mega-volcanoes or meteor strikes that could take out millions… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But if you ever bring her back damaged again--and I don't care whose fault it is; I don't care if she merely… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so.… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Girls got sucked into Dean’s gravity like rogue meteors, only to go down in glorious flames.” — Staci Hart Copy Share Image
Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return. — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. — Jack London Copy Share Image
A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and… — Christine Lahti Copy Share Image
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary.… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Household hollowness comes around in irregular cycles, like meteor showers. But the true sign of a bad patch is that it never… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's… — Paula Yates Copy Share Image
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. The pale-faced moon looks bloody on… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
“The Romans and Greeks believed that the appearance of comets, meteors, and meteor showers was portentous. They were signs that something good… — Kayla Cunningham Copy Share Image
No, there is nothing on the face of the earth that can, for a moment, bear a comparison with Christianity as a… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
![“The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence…” quote by Tycho Brahe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/448/tycho-brahe-26422_air_the-star-tycho-s-supernova-was-at-first_1044003.jpg)
![“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study ]” quote by Guy de Maupassant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e82/guy-de-maupassant-1364_birth_i-entered-literary-life-as-a-meteor-and_2844771.jpg)
![“From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be generated beneath the Moon or above the Moon, but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself - one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age…” quote by Tycho Brahe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dd7/tycho-brahe-26422_age_from-his-observations-he-concluded-that_2711024.jpg)
![“I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags [gay pride flags] in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate , this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of…” quote by Pat Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c9f/pat-robertson-1972_bombs_i-would-warn-orlando-that-you-re-right-i_2352469.jpg)
![“A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've been rowing for only three or four days. To avoid that fate, we prepared for all possibilities. If a meteor landed 10 feet off our stern, we would not blink. [We]…” quote by Brad Alan Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e1/brad-alan-lewis-16353_blink_a-man-goes-through-many-changes-in-2000_2660025.jpg)