Famous quotes containing the words earth and/or masses:
“You mean that this little pebbles been out there hot-roddin around the universe?”
—Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Mooch, The Blob, examining the meteor that carried the Blob to earth (1958)
“How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I dont want to die!”
—Denis Diderot (17131784)