“About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.” YearsStatesUseFoundUnitedUnited StatesSunYears AgoChainsPotClothingsDozenDeclarationItemsShieldsBicycleCleanersRagsHeadbands Author:Colum McCann
“Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.” YearsWellsMadeIdeasSunComedyMy FriendsYears AgoTwentiesFakeEmpiresGoing AwayCampsVietnamBootsAuditionsBoot CampEmpire Of The Sun Author:Ben Stiller
“The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.” YearsStillsTwoLightChristianFacesDarknessSunAtheismEffectsBuildingSourceThousandGloryYears AgoRoseWestPositive AtheismEastOpeningTemplesCustomsWarmthArchitectResurrectionDecayThousand YearsPreciseChillDisappearanceShrinesBurying Author:Isaac Newton
“Time can take nothing from the BIBLE. It is the living monitor. Like the sun, it is the same in its light and influence to man this day which it was years ago. It can meet every present inquiry and console every present loss” MenYearsLightLossSunInfluenceYears AgoThis DayInquiryConsole Author:Richard Cecil
“If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants from the birth itself, an event that took place about four-and-a-half-billion years ago.” IfsWantYearsWould BeSecretBehindsHalfSunFourEventsPlanetsBirthYears AgoBillionsHelpfulRemnants Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets.” YearsReasonHalfKnownSunFourPlanetsBirthYears AgoCloudsBillionsDustGasTransformedSolar System Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“We know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from the sun's rays and could decrease its temperature. But this process is how dinosaurs disappeared from the Earth about 60 million years ago, by particles spewed by a volcano or a giant meteorite impact, and our species could follow suit.” KnowsYearsLittlesEarthProcessMillionsSunPlanetsConsequenceYears AgoImpactSpeciesSuitsAtmosphereGiantsShadeRaysParticlesTemperatureDinosaursDecreaseVolcanoesGeoengineering Author:Graciela Chichilnisky
“I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life without the sun, the moon, stars, without flowers and warm days in May. I thought about a year ago and all the good things I'd taken for granted and all the unbearable things that had replaced those simple blessings. And even though I hated the thought of crying in from of Syl, tears streamed down my face.” PeopleKnowsYearsMayEarthFacesStarsSimpleSunTakenHavensCryChangedTearsFlowerHorrorBlessingMoonYears AgoGood ThingsWarmGrantedHatedReplacedUnbearableEarthquakesChanged My LifeTaken For GrantedVolcanoesTsunamiUnbearable Things Author:Susan Beth Pfeffer
“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.” YearsSaidThreeSunThousandYears AgoVanityThousand YearsNothing NewSolomonNothing New Under The Sun Author:Paulo Coelho
“I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine per cent of our living substance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars. Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets, and ourselves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system.” LifeYearsEndsFeelingsEarthFormScienceUniverseThreeStarsSunGenerationsShareDyingStudentsPlanetsPrideYears AgoCookingBillionsNineSubstanceCentsCarbonInteriorsOxygenNinetySolar SystemNinety NineNitrogen Author:George Wald