Quotes About Oxygen

Incidentally, I'm puzzled why, with so much oxygen about, things didn't burst into flames all the time. Perhaps they did

Or you might set the morning star for it burns and burns and glitters in the winter dawn, and throws forth beam like those of metal consumed by oxygen. (Out of Doors in February)

I lie in bed at home, trying to put feelings into words. On the one hand—and this is the part to do with the past—love feels like the vast and sudden easing of a lifelong frown. But simultaneously—this is the part to do with the present and the future—it feels as if the lungs of my soul have been inflated with pure oxygen.

Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.

To me,music is oxygen & I know that someday even if I can't sing,I can always continue listening to it.

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

Love as is love is the oxygen of life.

You gotta give yourself oxygen before you can give it to anyone else. I have to put my own mask on first.

He peered through the microscope until the blood cells materialized, red and blue and shades in between, different shapes and sizes… In all these years, it never failed to amaze him, this magnificent dappled sea of bone marrow, ever regenerating and replenishing itself in an ongoing cycle that made life possible – red cells that carried oxygen, white cells that fought off infection, and platelets that made the blood clot.

Hope is oxygen to someone who is suffocating on despair.

The primordial gases accounted for 98 percent of the material in the cloud from which our sun formed (hydrogen made up ca. 72 percent; helium, ca. 27 percent). But many other elements were also present, including carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen (which now account for 1.4 percent of all matter in the universe), and also iron, magnesium, silicon, sulfur, and neon (which account for another 0.5 percent).

Earth, for example, is made up of oxygen (almost 50 percent) and smaller amounts of iron (19 percent), silicon (14 percent), magnesium (12.5 percent)

Living organisms are constructed, for the most part, from compounds of carbon and hydrogen. Carbon is critical because of its astonishing flexibility. Add hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur and we can account for 99 percent of the dry weight of all living organisms.

celled. Then a catastrophe occurred (in the sense of sudden change), a dramatic increase in biodiversity, an anti-extinction, if you will. In a flash, there were not just some animal forms, but all of them. In the fossil record, all modern body types appear together at this moment. We don't know why this happened when it did. It's likely that the explosion had to wait until oxygen levels rose high enough to support the greater energy needs of larger bodies,

Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

Hope is oxygen to the soul, and God is the oxygen of hope.

In the event of a cabin failure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling, and untangling them will annoy you before you die.

As llamas have never heard of oxygen, they do not miss it.

...the only thing that could justify your continuing existence on the planet would be if you started breathing carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.

With every breath, I breathe in so much of inspiration. I feel if there is one thing as free and as important as oxygen, it's inspiration.

Imagine a man without lungs. Imagine earth without Amazon rainforest.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.

Russell James asked me to shoot underwater. He tied my feet under the water. I don't know how many feet - maybe five, six meters. He tied me underwater and I had no air. Somebody had a tube, and they were giving me some oxygen, but I couldn't really see anything. Everything was blurry. I'm waiting for the oxygen - that was the craziest thing.

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.