Quotes About Terra
Relations between Terra and Luna had been strained since the Lunans had eaten Neil Armstrong in 1960.
~ A. Lee Martinez
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When I went to WCW, I was never supposed to go in there as Terra Ryzing.
~ Triple H
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for fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.
~ Jan Karon
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El nombre de Brasil llegaría más tarde, en el siglo XVI, cuando los primeros colonos empezaron a exportar un árbol que usaban los indígenas para extraer sus tintes y pintarse de aquella manera que tanto fascinó al oficial portugués, y que llamaron pau-brasil, por desprender un color rojizo al hervirse en el agua, lo que sugería las llamas de un fuego o las brasas del carbón ardiendo. De Terra do pau-brasil acabaría abreviándose a Brasil.
~ Javier Moro
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Henry studied Merri Lee, then Meg. "Humans don't like mice?" "Not in the building!" Meg said. "And not around food," Merri Lee added. The three terra indigene looked baffled. "But it's fresh meat," the brown-haired woman finally said.
~ Anne Bishop
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If you break the agreements with the terra indigene , the terra indigene will strike back and strike hard.
~ Anne Bishop
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beyond the confluence lies the wilderness of the Needles country, known to only a few cowboys and uranium prospectors; on the west side of the junction is another labyrinth of canyons, pinnacles and fins of naked stone, known to even fewer, closer than anything else in the forty-eight United States to being genuine terra incognita—The Maze.
~ Edward Abbey
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On Terra, if he'd ever attempted to work as a medical practitioner, my species would have retaliated with conservative resistance. Which meant reviving public stonings and lynch mobs. Dr.
~ S.L. Viehl
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Christ was a religious prophet from an even earlier era, very popular on Terra for several thousand years. He preached all the usual things the better class of prophets preach, about respecting your fellow beings and treating them as one would like oneself to be treated. He got about the reception you'd expect, and his teachings were widely misinterpreted for millennians
~ Elizabeth Bear
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When you refer to terra entities, you ornately say Mother Nature and Mother Earth. How much honour and care do all of us accord to any of the three - including our real life mother?
~ Nana Patekar
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Sui prati scoscesi volavano bassi i corvi, deformi, va na gloriosi, crudeli. Li avevi paragonati alla nostra adolescenza, mentre cercavano, nella terra intorno al collegio, dove mettere gli artigli.
~ Fleur Jaeggy
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the long history of our House, we have been constantly shadowed by Misfortune, as if we were its prey. One might almost believe the curse of Atreus from ancient Greek times on Old Terra.
~ Brian Herbert
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Terra has just one stone To mark her great insanity: Across her continents it reads: HERE LIES HUMANITY!
~ Calvin Miller
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Il Poeta è simile al principe dei nembi, che vive tra le tempeste e si ride dell'arciere; esiliato sulla terra fra grida di scherno, le ali di gigante gl'impediscono di camminare.
~ Charles Baudelaire
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terra preta is "not associated with a particular parent soil type or environmental condition," suggesting that it was not produced by natural processes. Another clue to its human origin is the broken ceramics with which it is usually mixed. "They practiced agriculture here for centuries," Glaser told me. "But instead of destroying the soil, they improved it, and that is something we don't know how to do today" in tropical soils.
~ Charles C. Mann
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What virtue yet sleeps in this terra damnata and aged cinders, were petty magic to experiment. These crumbling relicks and long fired particles superannuate such expectations; bones, hairs, nails, and teeth of the dead, were the treasures of old sorcerers.
~ Thomas Browne
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as he termed it, terra ulterior incog.—in other words, "the land that has been hitherto unknown.
~ Laurence Bergreen
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Agora Fabiano era vaqueiro, e ninguém o tiraria dali. Aparecera como um bicho, entocara-se como um bicho, mas criara raízes, estava plantado. Olhou as quipás, os mandacarus e os xiquexiques. Era mais forte que tudo isso, era como as catingueiras e as baraúnas. Ele, sinha Vitória, os dois filhos e a cachorra Baleia estavam agarrados à terra.
~ Graciliano Ramos
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There was an ancient word, originating in one of the lost languages of Pre-Atomic Terra—sixtifor. It meant, the basic, fundamental, question. Rovard Javasan, he suspected, had just asked the sixtifor.
~ H Beam Piper
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Young Mr. Conn Maxwell, who has just returned from Terra, needs no introduction to any of you," he began. Then, having established that, he took the next ten minutes to introduce Conn.
~ H. Beam Piper
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I know where The List is-my father has taken me to see it many times. Maybe for just this reason. And I know what it is: The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma. And I know who I am: Daniel, son of Graff, son of Terfdon- The Alien Hunter. No last name, just Daniel X.
~ James Patterson
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Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
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Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.
~ Unknown
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What do you think?' he asked. 'Do you think the most incredible thing about it is that it is an original pict, made ten thousand years ago, by the hallowed founder of the Imperial Truth? Or that it is a pict of Horus Lupercal?' 'I think the most incredible thing about it,' I replied, 'is that it is sitting on sale here and not sequestered in a vault on far-off Terra.
~ Dan Abnett
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