Tropical Years

Famous quotes containing the words tropical and/or years:

    Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
    A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
    That frequently happens in tropical climes
    When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    What a lesson here for our world. One blast, thousands of years of civilization wiped out.
    Kurt Neumann (1906–1958)