Mars Quotes - Page 19

• I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!

  Ray Bradbury

  Horse, Moving, Book

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• We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

  Dan Quayle

  Believe, Mean, Science

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• Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and good-will into their relations.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Happiness, Law, Influence

  "Christianity and the Social Crisis".

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• E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower,
  That Time upon her angel brow should set
  His crooked autograph, and mar the jet
  Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green,
  The hoar frost and the canker worm destroy.
  Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes.

  Isaac McLellan

  Time, Eye, Angel

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.25

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• If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.

  Gayle Forman

  Circles, Water, My Family

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jun 21, 2014

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• Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You cannot step in the same river twice." The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, Years, Law

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• A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

  Carl Sagan

  Miracle, Would Be, Earth

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.309, Ballantine Books

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• People seem weak, but they’re strong. They seem strong, but they’re weak. No matter how much you cry, you still have to sleep. And you even get hungry. You suddenly realize you’re doing the same things you did yesterday. You say hi to your friends and smile just like you did yesterday. Life goes on as if nothing ever happened… I want to go somewhere… Anywhere… Somewhere where I can forget everything. …where I’ll forget everything …and be reborn. Mars Volume 18

  Fuyumi Soryo

  Strong, Sleep, Yesterday

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• 3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is a box of 10 Mars bars The Banker says "Because of my expertise in asset management, I''ll look after our resources" The other 2 agree So the Banker opens the box, gobbles down 9 of the Mars bars and hands the last one to the Daily Mail reader He then says " I'd keep an eye on that Asylum seeker, he's after your Mars Bar

  Christopher Brookmyre

  Eye, Islands, Hands

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• In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Home, Swimming, Squares

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• Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is rife,
  Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have place
  Amid the tumult of reverberant strife
  'Twixt ancient creeds, 'twixt race and ancient race,
  That mars the grave, glad purposes of life,
  Leaving no refuge save thy succoring face?

  Sarojini Naidu

  Dream, Hope, Sweet

  Shiri R. Bakshi, Sarojini Naidu, Bishamber D. Yadav (1990). “Struggle for independence: Indian freedom fighters. Sarojini Naidu”

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• Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.

  Greg Bear

  Vacation, Sight, Love Coming Back

  "Why I love Mars" by Greg Bear, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2012.

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• I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

  Alice Walker

  Past, Race, Talking

  "Obama is the change that America has tried to hide" by Alice Walker, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2008.

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• Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.

  Frans Lanting

  Keys, Water, Frozen

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• Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

  Aristotle

  Crush, Pain, Adversity

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• Chankaya is referring there to the probibition of entry of the untrustworthy in the counsel-room. Disloyal persons foolishly speak out the secrets of the counsel not knowing the harmful effects of the same. Disclosing the secrets of the counsel mars the welfare of the country.

  Chanakya

  Country, Speaks Out, Knowing

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• You may have heard this, that NASA discovered water on Mars When he heard about the water on Mars, President Bush said, 'Is it regular or unleaded?'

  Craig Kilborn

  Water, President, May

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• I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moving, Moon, Thinking

  "Q&A: Buzz Aldrin on "In the Shadow of the Moon"". Interview with Shawn Adler, www.mtv.com. June 09, 2007.

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• Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its shimmering red presence in the clear night sky. It is like a glowing ember in a field of ethereal lights, projecting energy and promise. It inspires visions of an approachable world. The mind vaults to thoughts of what might have been (if Mars were a litter closer to the warming Sun) and of what could be (if humans were one day to plant colonies there).

  John Noble Wilford

  Eye, Night, Light

  John Noble Wilford (1991). “Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space”, Vintage

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• Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Russia, Ice

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• I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Australia, Desert, Goes On

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• In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons where we can send continuous numbers of people.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Numbers, People

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• Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Air, Atmosphere, Pressure

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• A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.

  Bill Gaede

  Hands, Today, Rockets

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• The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Black, Understood

  Nikki Giovanni (2009). “Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems”, p.3, Harper Collins

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