Famous quotes containing the words earth, orbit and/or mission:
“The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.”
—David Lehman (b. 1948)
“It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.”
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1907–1961)