Planets Quotes - Page 10

• I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

  Jaden Smith

  Want, Prana, Persons

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Umm... So I just realized Ive been peeling bananas wrong my entire life. Thank you animal planet.

  Miles Teller

  Animal, Bananas, Peeling

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• The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

  Kanye West

  Pride, Giving, Humanity

  "Kanye West Talks Hope for Humanity's Future" by Daniel D'addario, Francesca Trianni, time.com. April 16, 2015.

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• I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Race, Space

  "'Colonize planets to save the human race' – Professor Stephen Hawking", www.rt.com. February 20, 2015.

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• If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.

  Joan Slonczewski

  Would Be, Patriarchy, Ifs

  Joan Slonczewski (2000). “A Door Into Ocean”, p.393, Macmillan

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• Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

  John Wagner

  Telescopes, Looks, Thanks

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• I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.

  Brian Blessed

  Dream, Jesus, Stars

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• The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Sports, Education

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Climate Action, Politics, Climate Change

  "EU sets targets of 40% carbon cut and 27% share of renewables by 2030". Live, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2014.

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• If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

  John Doerr

  Business, Climate, Economy

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• If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.

  James Hansen

  Motivation, Different, Protection

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• Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.

  Robert Muller

  Teacher, Communication, Reading

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• Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we face an immediate and grave danger of destroying the worldwide ecological system that sustains life as we know it.

  Al Gore

  New Relationship, Civilization, Faces

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• The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.

  J. G. Ballard

  Stars, Energy, Orbit

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• I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

  Carl Jung

  Circles, Resistance, Sun

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

  Susan Rice

  Nuclear, Stolen, Harm

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• Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.

  Barbara Block

  Ocean, Technology, Two

  "Barbara Block: Use apps to save the great white shark". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

  Stewart Udall

  Land, Choices, Titles

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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• I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didnt write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Bridges, Fiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don't even get eaten. And there's over 50 million animals killed just for fashion.

  Stella McCartney

  Fashion, Animal, Years

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• We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

  Jeff Merkley

  Jobs, Children, Energy

  "Clean Energy is an Easy Choice" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the same planet as the rest of us. Is this lunacy supposed to be a practical suggestion for a harassed housewife trying to drag her children off to school?

  Terry Wogan

  Children, School, Boys

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• Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.

  David Attenborough

  Views, Humanity, Manage

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• I like Silver Surfer because he's the most philosophical, always philosophizing about the human race and the human condition and why people are the way they are, why they don't appreciate this wonderful planet they live on... he has a nice moral tone.

  Stan Lee

  Nice, Philosophical, Race

  "A Chat With Stan Lee, `Godfather' Of Marvel Comics". Interview with Chip & Jonathan Carter, articles.chicagotribune.com. January 19, 1996.

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• The general public doesn't know and probably doesn't care about punctuated equilibria nor indeed should they, or the greenhouse effect on some other planet - they barely have the ability to cope with the greenhouse effect on their own planet. So I think you have to distinguish between the broad visibility of a scientist when he or she is speaking to a general public and trying to address general issues and the continued position that a scientist may have into the history of a particular subject.

  Richard Lewontin

  Thinking, Issues, Trying

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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