Around The Sun Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, 'Still,…

— Junichiro Koizumi

“I took it for granted that this is what all families did—come together and become an island unto themselves, the kitchen table the sun…

— Roxane Gay

“But that's exactly the problem, retorted Isabel. We're all stuck with the same tired and trusted ideas. If we refused to entertain the possibility…

— Alexander McCall Smith

As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is…

— Joseph Conrad

“...and maybe because of the boiling April sun, he thought about water and ice. Water and ice were made of the same thing. He…

— Katherine Boo

“If I could fly high as the sun, she thought, this war would seem so small to me. We would all be but specks…

— Daniel Arenson

“There comes a point in life where each one of us who survives begins to feel like a ghost that has forgotten to die…

— Louis de Bernières

“His thoughts died as Anders’s brain caught and held on to one particular sentence that had run through his mind. God, he loved this…

— Lynsay Sands

“The one we call Earth formed in a kind of Goldilocks zone around the Sun, where oceans remain largely in liquid form.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings…

— Carl Sagan

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

— Archibald MacLeish