Vastness Quotes

I don't think anybody can be prepared for the vastness of this destruction... It's going to take a monumental effort to continue moving forward, but we will. This nation has done a lot of big things before, and this is going to be one of the biggest. - Laura Bush

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. - John Shelby Spong

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. - Dr. Carl Sagan

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe. - Maria Mitchell

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness. - Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

As the astounding vastness of the universe becomes obscured, there is a throwback to a vision of a universe that essentially amounts to earth, or one's country, or state or city. Perspective becomes myopic. - Brian Greene