Body Worlds

Famous quotes containing the words body and/or worlds:

    Alas! While your ambitious vanity is unceasingly laboring to cover the earth with statues, with monuments, and with inscriptions to eternalize, if possible, your names, and give yourselves an existence, when this body is no more, why must we be condemned to live and die unknown?
    Thomas Paine 1737–1809, U.S. writer and magazine editor. Pennsylvania Magazine, pp. 362-4 (1775)

    Between two worlds life hovers like a star,
    ‘Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)