Meteor Quotes
36 quotes by 31 authors
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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…
— Tycho Brahe
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and…
— J. B. Priestley
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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…
— Pat Robertson
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
— Guy de Maupassant
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a…
— Victor Hugo
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A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart.…
— Christine Lahti
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The big, huge meteor headed toward the Earth. Could nothing stop it? Maybe Bob could. He was suddenly on top of the meteor-through some kind…
— Jack Handey
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I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon…
— George Frisbie Hoar
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Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make:…
— Leslie Jamison
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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…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.
— Robert Burns
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There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage…
— Michael Palin
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Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
— Samuel Johnson
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The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when…
— John Burroughs
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Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.
— Robert Burns
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Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists…
— Dalai Lama
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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 only six people…
— Paula Yates
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
— Jack London
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke…
— Steven Spielberg
Who Wrote These Meteor Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 36 Meteor Quotes, led by these top contributors: