Average Earth Temperature

Famous quotes containing the words average, earth and/or temperature:

    “... to be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.”
    —Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

    “Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were
    furled
    In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
    There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe,
    And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal law.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss—a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.”
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)