Round World Quotes:

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

topic: Friendship, Funny Friend, Cute Best Friend, World Is Round, Round World

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

- Rebecca West

topic: Strength, Success, Encouraging, I Ll Miss You, Beginnings And Ends

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Education, Not Stupid, Infinite Intelligence

It's love that makes the world go round.

- W. S. Gilbert

source: W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.504, Oxford University Press

topic: World, World Is Round, Round World, Used In Criminal Minds

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Baby, Literature, World, World Is Round, Round World

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual, Choosing Sides, Round World

We are the heirs of the ages; but the estate is entailed, as large estates frequently are, so that while we inherit the earth, the great round world which is God's footstool, we have only the use of it while we live and must pass it on to those come after us. We hold the property in trust and have no right to injure it or to lessen its value. To do so is dishonest, stealing from our heirs their inheritance.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

topic: Future, Age, Use, Round World

If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.

- Lucretius

topic: Mother, Sea, Names, Neptune, Bacchus

Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Heart, Circles, Inward, Grim, Round World

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Boys, Pigs, World, Slaughterhouses, Round World

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

- H. G. Wells

source: H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.1995, Delphi Classics

topic: Animal, Vegetarianism, World, Slaughterhouses, Eating Animals

Nowadays, hoy en día, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a world of domination, grasping power, venal stupidity, real evil, don’t get me started, it’s good to know that a conversation about tacos will always engender a sense of comfort and happiness. If only we could sit down at a big round world table and eat tacos in a spirit of love we might begin to work on world peace!

- Denise Chavez

topic: Real, War, Our World, Lack Of Love, Comfort And Happiness

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.260

topic: Should Have, Cracks, Citizens, Round World

Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you. Because we have fairy-tales in which there are round worlds and I have always loved them … Have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside-down?" Edmund shook his head. "And it isn't like that," he added. "There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world when you're there.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Mean, People, Three, Round World

It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

- Zora Neale Hurston

topic: Wall, Eye, Dark, Round World

I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.

- Bill Hicks

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hate, Lasts, World, Round World

I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If I can't protect my family, I'm coming to where you are; I'm just coming. It's a round world, and we've all got to get on with it and move on.

- Paul Bettany

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Protect My Family, Refugee Crisis, Round World