Base Space

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or space:

“I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would drive me mad on my death-bed could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to her soil. I would not even feed her worms if I could help it.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?”
—W.D. Richter (b. 1945)