Billion Light

Famous quotes containing the words billion and/or light:

“SING a song of ‘sistence
Pocket full of Eye
Two billion Turtle-doves
Mourning in a sty”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)